Trivia

In 1951 "Time" magazine dubbed Lippert "The Quickie King", in reference to the speed with which which he turned out movies.

During the early 1950s Lippert formed a production company with Gary Cooper and Carl Foreman. When Foreman was accused by the House Un-American Activities Committe of being a Communist during the McCarthy witch Red Scare hysteria in the 1950s, pressure was placed on Cooper to withdraw from the deal; he eventually did so and the partnership dissolved.

When his career as a low-budget film producer ended he returned to San Francisco and worked until late in life as a theater operator. He had a remarkably successful career as a low-budget feature producer, considering the pressures on the post-war movie business and the onslaught of television.

Father of Robert L. Lippert Jr.

In 1956 he was appointed by 20th Century-Fox to head its Regal Pictures division, which was formed to produce low-budget films using Fox's CinemaScope process but which would not carry the 20th-Century Fox name.

Lippert--who owned a chain of movie theaters before he got into film production--is credited by some as being the first to bring a popcorn machine into a movie theater.

In 1945 he founded Screen Guild Productions, a production/distribution company that specialized in low-budget films.

In 1948 he founded Lippert Pictures, a production/distribution company that specialized in low-budget films.

In 1956 he founded Associated Film Releasing Corp., a distribution company that specialized in low-budget films.

Co-founder (w/Irwin Pizor, William M. Pizor) of Buzz Productions, Inc., a film production company.