WHAT ABOUT BOB?

Robert Richter is a multi-award-winning writer, director, composer, artist.

Writer of novels, short stories, screenplays, songs, ads, commercials, children’s books.

Director of films, documentaries, and hundreds of commercials for major brands.

Songs for videos, ads, documentaries. Art for walls, websites, books and covers.

He wrangles a Writer Circle in Los Angeles.

CAREER - Now playing in the arts after 30+ years in film/music Robert Richter & Friends/Moonlight Movies & Music Chicago 

former VP/Creative Director Needham, Harper & Steers (now DDB Worldwide) Chicago

earlier Writer/Producer Leo Burnett Co. Chicago, London, Copenhagen

even earlier Pup Copywriter Young & Rubicam Detroit

CLIENTS - ABC-TV, Campbell Soup, Coors, John Deere, General Mills, Honda, S.C. Johnson, KFC, Kellogg's, Kraft, McDonald's, Oscar Mayer, Pillsbury, Quaker, Ralston-Purina, State Farm Insurance, Walgreen's, their ad agencies and gratefully many more.

AWARDS/HONORS - Clio, Addy, Telly, Mobius, Chicago International Film Festival, Chicago’s Best Director - Screen Magazine

Foster Father to 16 infants. Emeritus Trustee Children’s Home & Aid Society Chicago

MEMBERSHIPS - Directors Guild of America, SAG-AFTRA, American Federation of Musicians, ASCAP

Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators. Former United Auto Worker and Teamster. 

Founding member of The Hoovies, a band of goofs dedicated to silliness.

TEACHING - Columbia College, Chicago Part-Time Instructor Ad/Commercial Copywriting.

Northwestern University Graduate School Guest Lecturer “Producing/Directing Commercials.” 

Food Marketing Association featured speaker “Kids in Commercials.”

EDUCATION - Michigan State University, BA Communication Arts. Post-Graduate Film Columbia College, Chicago. 

French study five years Beverly Hills Lingual Institute - “Il a presque tout oublié.”

PERSONAL - Youth in St. Louis, high school in Detroit, college in Michigan, career in Chicago, lives in Los Angeles. 

Semi-retired, 6 kids, 12 grandkids, 16 former foster kids. 

Still in pursuit of silliness.

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