Biography

Robert Payne Cabeen is a screenwriter, artist, and Bram Stoker Award winner with his novel "Cold Cuts". As creative director for Streamline Pictures, Robert helped bring Japanese animated features, like "Akira" to a western audience. His screenwriting credits include "Heavy Metal 2000", for Columbia TriStar, Sony Pictures, "A Monkey's Tale", and "Walking With Buddha". Cabeen received an MFA from Otis Art Institute. Since then, he has combined his interests in the visual arts with screenwriting and storytelling for entertainment companies including: Warner Brothers, Columbia/TriStar, Disney, Sony, and Universal.
- IMDb mini biography by: Robert Payne Cabeen

Robert's mother, Anita Doody, was the first woman executive at Paramount Pictures when she became business manager of the publicity department in 1946.