Robert L. Lippert - Lord of the Bs

March 31st is the birthday of the Alameda film legend
 

Robert L. Lippert's Last Man on Earth is an Alameda TV favorite!

Celebrating the Birthday of Alameda's Film Pioneer

Producer Robert L. Lippert, Sr. never claimed to make films for any reason other than to make a profit. However, just because he turned out a tremendous amount of "product" on low budgets over a short amount of time, doesn't mean within those limitations he didn't attempt to craft the best entertainment he could.

Triple Your Lippert Fun

Alameda TV celebrates the achievements of the City's Cinematic Favorite Son with a Lippert triple feature, the semi-famous Rocketship XM (1950), the very obscure Scared to Death (1947) and the back in the limelight Last Man on Earth.

It Came From Alameda!

Born in San Francisco March 31, 1909, Robert L. Lippert was adopted by Leonard and Eleanor Lippert of Alameda. By his early teens he was not only a movie projectionist, he was soon building and perfecting his own projectors.

Mr Lippert made the movie industry his life and by the 1930s he owned over 60 theaters along the West Coast. In the 1940s he combined his mechanical skills, his commercial ambitions, and his creative instincts to launch a very successful career as a producer of small budget movies. Before he was finished, over 300 films could be credited to his name, many shown at the Alameda Theatre on Central, The Rio on Park and the Times on Webster Street.

Coming Soon

Over the next few months Alameda TV is planning on more online Robert L. Lippert information and a bio-documentary is in the works.

-- Ed Schneider - Alameda TV

Photo courtesy of www.robertlippert.org

Robert L. Lippert, Sr. owned and managed the Alameda Theatre in the 1970s.

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