- Robert Cushman was born on November 7, 1946 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. He is known for Summerspell (1983), Hollywood at Your Feet: The Story of the Chinese Theatre Footprints (2000) and American Experience (1988). He died on July 13, 2009 in Edgewood, Kentucky, USA.
- Photographic curator for the Acadamy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Margaret Herrick Library from 1972 until his death.
- He created a cleaning process for photos that had been glued into still books.
- He developed and expanded the Academy library's photo collection. He acquired major studio archives, as well as personal collections of George Cukor, Harold Lloyd, Katharine Hepburn, Buster Keaton, and Douglas Fairbanks.
- He graduated from UCLA, and was a research fellow at the American Film Institute.
- He fell in love with movies at age four, when he saw The Wizard of Oz (1939) for the first time at the Rialto Theater in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
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