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Robert Sklar

Overview

  • Born
    December 3, 1936 · New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
  • Died
    July 2, 2011 · Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain (brain injury sustained in a bicycle accident)
  • Birth name
    Robert Anthony Sklar

Biography

  • Robert Sklar was born on December 3, 1936 in New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA. He is known for Nine Out of Ten (1997), The South Bank Show (1978) and Biography (1987). He was married to Adrienne Harris and Kathryn Kish Sklar. He died on July 2, 2011 in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

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  • Spouses
      Adrienne Harris(? - July 2, 2011) (his death)
      Kathryn Kish Sklar (divorced, 2 children)

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  • Died from a brain injury as a result of a biking accident while traveling in Spain.
  • Film historian and author.
  • Longtime professor of cinema studies at New York University.
  • Was a passionate baseball fan who co-edited "Rotisserie League Baseball" book in 1980.
  • He received a PhD in the history of American civilization at Harvard in 1965. His dissertation became his first book, "F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Last Laocoön" (1967).

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