Robert J. Horner

Robert J. Horner

producer, director, writer

Robert J. Horner was born on Sep 14, 1894 in USA. Robert J. Horner's big-screen debut came with The Cheyenne Kid directed by Jacques Jaccard in 1930.

Robert J. Horner was a prolific, if spectacularly untalented, producer/director in the late 1920s and early 1930s. He had only one eye and no legs (accounts differ as to whether he was born that way or lost them in a traffic accident in his youth), but that didn't stop him from producing quite a few low-budget--very, VERY low-budget--westerns and action pictures and even directing a few of them. Contemporary accounts of the films, and a perusal of the few that exist today, indicate that Horner would not only equal but far surpass

  • Birthday

    Sep 14, 1894
  • Place of Birth

    Spring Valley, Illinois, USA