Robert L. Ripley

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Male

Birthday 1890-12-25

Deathday 1949-05-27 (58 years old)

Place of Birth Santa Rosa, California, USA

Also Known As Robert Leroy Ripley, Robert Ripley, Bob Ripley, Mr. Ripley, Ripley, LeRoy Robert Ripley, LeRoy Ripley

Robert L. Ripley

Biography

Robert L. Ripley (December 25, 1890 – May 27, 1949) was an American cartoonist, entrepreneur, and amateur anthropologist who is known for creating the Ripley's Believe It or Not! newspaper panel series, radio show, and television show which feature odd facts from around the world. Subjects covered in Ripley's cartoons and text ranged from sports feats to little-known facts about unusual and exotic sites. But what ensured the concept's popularity may have been that he also included items submitted by readers, who supplied photographs of a wide variety of small-town American trivia ranging from unusually shaped vegetables to oddly marked domestic animals, all documented by photographs and then depicted by his drawings. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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