Movies starring Robby the Robot

Biography: 
Robby was the brainchild of, and designed by Robert Kinoshita, and built in mid-1955 by the MGM prop department, at a reported cost of $125,000.00 from blueprint plans provided by industrial designer, Japanese-American engineer Robert Kinoshita, to 'star' in the epic science fiction classic "The Forbidden Planet (1956)" and its B-movie followup "Invisible Boy (1957)" a year later. Robby the Robot  ...  show all 

Forbidden Planet (1956)

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
Forbidden Planet
Genres: Drama | Romance | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Walter Pidgeon | Anne Francis | Leslie Nielsen | Warren Stevens | Jack Kelly | Richard Anderson | Earl Holliman | Robby the Robot | George Wallace | Robert Dix | Jimmy Thompson | James Drury | Harry Harvey Jr. | Roger McGee | Peter Miller
Directors: Fred M. Wilcox
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An expedition is sent from Earth to Altair in the constellation of Aquilae (some 17 light years from Earth) to discover what happened to a colony of settlers on its fourth planet, Altair-4. What they discover is how and why an alien race of geniuses destroyed itself overnight while leaving their technology intact at some point in the distant, distant past.