Robert Ripley
Cartoonist, TV Program Creator
1890 – 1949
Who was Robert Ripley?
Robert LeRoy Ripley was an American cartoonist, entrepreneur and amateur anthropologist, who created the Ripley's Believe It or Not! newspaper panel series, radio show, and television show which feature odd facts from around the world.
Subjects covered in Ripley's cartoons and text ranged from sports feats to little known facts about unusual and exotic sites; but what ensured the concept's popularity may have been that Ripley also included items submitted by readers, who supplied photographs of a wide variety of small town American trivia, ranging from unusually shaped vegetables to oddly marked domestic animals, all documented by photographs and then depicted by Ripley's drawings.
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- Born
- Dec 25, 1890
Santa Rosa - Also known as
- Bob Ripley
- Mr. Ripley
- Ripley
- Robert L. Ripley
- Robert LeRoy Ripley
- Robert LeRoy Riple
- Robert Le Roy Ripley
- Spouses
- Beatrice Roberts
(1919/10/31 - 1926)
- Beatrice Roberts
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Lived in
- Santa Rosa
- Died
- May 27, 1949
New York City
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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