Glen Grant (historian) films as "Gone with the Wind", "The Wizard of Oz" and "Forbidden Planet." The elder Grant helped create the extraterrestrial robot Gort from "The Day the Earth Stood Still" and Robby the Robot from "Forbidden Planet". "Robby eventually became a member of the Grant household, where the younger Grant said he would see the robot, stashed in the family garage, on a daily basis. Though the robot ultimately ended up in a museum, Grant was said to have "often affectionately remembered Robby the Robot as his brother." Glen graduated from Hamilton High School in 1964. Grant received a bachelor's degree
Forbidden Planet Forbidden Planet Forbidden Planet is a 1956 American science fiction film produced by Nicholas Nayfack, directed by Fred M. Wilcox that stars Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, and Leslie Nielsen. Shot in Eastmancolor and CinemaScope, it is considered one of the great science fiction films of the 1950s, and a precursor of contemporary science fiction cinema. The characters and isolated setting have been compared to those in William Shakespeare's "The Tempest", and the plot contains certain analogues to the play. "Forbidden Planet" pioneered several aspects of science fiction cinema. It was the first science fiction film to depict humans traveling in