Robert Stainton

Robert Stainton is a German-American-Canadian animator, actor, voice actor, director, prop maker, former street artist, activist, businessman, singer, musician, entrepreneur, and producer, he is well known for creating the long-running animated series Greeny Phatom.
== Biography ==
=== Early life ===
He was born in Chicago, Illinois on September 2, 1967 at the Chicago Hospital for Women and Children to a German father and a American mother, one hour before his sister Rebecca Stainton. By birth, and like all of his other family members from the Arnold/Shelly line, he was granted dual citizenship on the basis of his parental origin. According to a 2012 interview, his father left Germany after the Nazi Party rose to power. Robert was born with the name Wolfgang and the middle name Günther, as his mother, Shelly, wanted to name him for the classical composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, but his father, Arnold, wanted none of her involvement in naming him. A year after his birth, he was renamed Robert Wolfgang Stainton.
As a kid, Robert enjoyed watching German films and he also enjoyed drawing ants (which inspired the character designs in Greeny Phatom), he also had a Raggedy Ann & Andy obsession when he was a kid and he often watched NBC and CBS' saturday morning cartoons.
Robert wanted to be an animator just like his father after seeing Richard Williams' Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure at the Portage Theater in 1977.
Robert attended Alexander Graham Bell School for kindergarten, elementary, and middle school. He attended Chicago Vocational High School for his high school education, and was a quarterback on the CVS Cavaliers football team.
=== Early career, Robert's Pizza Bakers and Early productions ===
Robert's first paid job was being a waiter at the Pizzeria Due on 619 North Wabash Ave in Chicago, where he also sang in a Italian comedy band called Robert's Pizza Bakers who greeted customers for a while, and who released a comedy EP called "Italian Food Songs". which sold about 349,000,000 copies.
In 1981, Robert made his first animated short, which was known as James the Artist, which he made in his room during his free time, he showed the short to his father, who was impressed with the animation quality and the storytelling.
In 1983, at age 16, Robert Stainton got his first job in the animation industry at Filmation, where he worked on many of the studio's well known works, like He-Man, She-Ra, Ghostbusters and the final season of Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids.
In 1984, at age 17, he became a member of the cast of The Jeff Jones Show. He played piano in the Jeff Jones Band. Robert showed up at the audition held in Chicago wearing a neck brace, since he was having neck aches at the time. Jake Sanford told him to "use it" and Robert was known for wearing a neck brace nearly all the time. Robert had surgery to remove his body fat the week before, and he was also known for being scraggly, during this time he would also work on his friend Ulises Tobar's series, Gree City, where he would be a writer on until the series ended in 1995.
In 1985, at age 18, he and his friend Ulises Tobar started up Greetastic, Inc. in Ulises' garage. Their fathers and Robert's sister Kendall Stainton were early investors in the company.
=== Greeny Phatom and Apple Entertainment ===
In 1989, Robert first conceptualized Greeny Phatom while working on Filmation's final project, Happily Ever After, he pitched his idea of Greeny Phatom (then called Greeny Phantom), Filmation liked it but didn't have the funds to make the series a reality as the company was being sold, the series was being pitched to many companies, alot of the companies rejected his idea. 
In 1990, Robert obtained a part-time job at Apple Entertainment, Inc. as a voice actor, musician, and editor.
Robert graduated from the University of Chicago with a bachelor's degree in art in 1991.
Robert never felt like Greeny Phatom was ever gonna take off, and nearly called off the show, but a chance meeting with "Weird Al" Yankovic resulted in Robert gaining confidence to start up the series. 
In 1993, Robert met Canadian musician and television and film producer James Clayton in New York, they quickly became friends and James promised that he would help make a contract with the company he worked for at the time, Owl Communications to have them help produce Greeny Phatom, which they helped produce six seasons of until the company shut down in 2000. 
In 1994, Robert and James decided to pitch Greeny Phatom to Fox Kids Network, and shortly after, Robert and James got a call from Haim Saban that the series was greenlight for 1995, an 11-season contract was made for the series. 
On August 13, 1995, Greeny Phatom officially premiered on the FOX network, it was aired on a Sunday on the FOX network instead of the Fox Kids Network block for test reasons, in the series' first year on television, the series had made thirty million dollars in revenue, making Robert a millionaire, he and James sold the international broadcasting rights of the show to 150 broadcasters at the 1995 MIPCOM trade show in France. 
=== Later success ===
Due to consistent fanmail asking for Dr. Beanson to have his own series and a backdoor pilot, Dr. Beanson would eventually get a series, simply named Dr. Beanson, which premiered alongside the second season of Greeny Phatom on August 3, 1996 on Fox Kids Network, the series, like Greeny Phatom, was a success, even leading to a series that used episodes and edited versions of episodes co-created by Doug Langdale for UPN Kids named The Dr. Beanson Show, however, Fox decided not to renew Dr. Beanson for a fifth season and The Dr. Beanson Show ended due to UPN's negociations with The Walt Disney Company to replace UPN Kids with a new block that would eventually become Disney's One Too and Doug Langdale leaving production on the series after the series' second season finished production to create his own series, The Weekenders.
In 1997, Robert pitched a show to Fox Kids Network and Saban Entertainment executives that his eldest daughter had created and wanted him to pitch named Catgirl and the Clawed Crusaders, the series was greenlight for three seasons, the series premiered on July 4, 1998 on Fox Kids and BBC America, the series was a success, and grossed 40 million dollars in it's first year on television.
An adult-oriented spinoff of Greeny Phatom, named later in production as Greeny Phatom: The Xperience was created by Robert as part of an offer by Chris-Craft Industries to make an adult-oriented animated series for UPN to air before their hit series Moesha, as part of a package program in a similar vein to Hanna-Barbera and Filmation package programs named "The Greeny Phatom: The Xperience/Moesha Xtreme Hour", which was intended to air throughout the 1999/2000 TV season, though the show was cancelled by Chris-Craft Industries and Paramount Television when production on the series was almost wrapping up in February 1999, Robert however was allowed to continue production of the series with another network, without hesitation he pitched Greeny Phatom: The Xperience to News Corporation CEO Rupert Murdoch for FOX, who immediately greenlight the series for continued production and a second season.
In 2014, Robert purchased The Fool for $900,000,000 from the private collector who had bought it. 
In 2015, Stainton founded Stainton Enterprises, the quickly-growing media, merchandising, advertising, telecommunications, technology and licensing conglomerate.
In 2016, Robert Stainton became a public speaker on college campuses, where he has been known to verbally attack hecklers. He has since spoken on topics such as social justice and the 2017 international sex scandal, both in his personal appearances and in his cartoons. Recently, episodes of Greeny Phatom have satirized political groups. ANTIFA and the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement emerged in the episode "Meanwhile" as "Fanboys of Rage Against the Machine Wildly Indignant About Our Law Enforcement and The Government!" (FORATMWIAOLEATG). His contentious public persona as of late was captured on his 2017 comedy LP, Robert Stainton on Campus. The album features his interaction with students at Vanderbilt University on such topics as "feminism," "humanitarianism," "the Israel and the apartheid analogy" (Robert is pro-Israeli), "culture jamming" (Robert hates it), and "police brutality." The cover features a cartoon drawing by Robert of wildly dressed, angry millenials carrying protest signs with slogans like "End Stainton Brutality," "Little Guy and Dr. Beanson Smoke Pot," "Robert Is Too Old For This Bullshit!!," and "No Lives Matter"
Robert celebrated his 50th birthday in 2017 at the Athenaeum Theatre in Chicago. Around the same time, he published his third memoir, "Ich bin Robert." In the new memoir, Robert accused former production members Geo G. and Audel LaRoque of Germanophobia. He claims that Geo had a collection of World War 2 Allied propaganda and that LaRoque used to make racist jokes about Robert's father's Vietnamese hertiage.
=== Sexual harrasment controversy ===
In 2018, Stainton was involved in a controversy alleging that he, and his co-worker/friend James Clayton, had been sexually harrasing various staff members of Greeny Phatom and GreenyWorld Studios in and out of the workplace, various other staff members had been accused of .
On March 28, 2018, Robert Stainton was granted asylum in Eupen, Belgium.
On April 7, 2018, Robert filed a lawsuit against his accusers and some of his former business partners in a Belgian court for betrayal of his long-standing partnerships and harrassment. Stainton's former business partners won against him and his accusers, saying they never wanted the incident to happen.
On May 18, 2018, six of the sexual harassment accusations were debunked by a investigation conducted by CNN. It was discovered accusers Mindy S. and Sandra Jones were not working for GreenyWorld Studios at the time the encounters with Robert Stainton reportedly took place, and an unidentified accuser was revealed to be a internet troll. However, their information were then published by CNN, which resulted in a big backlash, thus launching a group of attacks against CNN's ratings and sponsorships. 
== Personal life ==
Robert has three children, and is married to Kristian Michaels, 
== Filmography==
===Films ===
*The Secret of the Sword (1985) - animator
*Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night (1987) - animator
*BraveStarr: The Movie (1988) - animator
*Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland (1989) - animator
*Happily Ever After (1990) - animator
*Greeny Phatom: The Movie (2002) - producer, animator, voice actor
*Catgirl and the Clawed Crusaders (film) (2004) - co-producer, animator, voice actor
*Greeny Phatom: The Movie 2 (2013) - writer, animator, voice actor
*Little Guy and the Mystery to New York (2013) - writer, animator, voice actor
*Little Guy and the Mystery to Paris (2015) - writer, animator, voice actor
*Greeny Phatom: The Movie 3 (2017) - writer, animator, voice actor
*Little Guy and the Box of Jango Fett (2018) - co-director, animator, voice actor
*Greeny Phatom: The Movie 4 (2020) - writer, animator, voice actor
* Little Guy: Heaven Sent (2023) - writer, animator, voice actor
*Greeny Phatom: The Movie 5 (2025) - co-writer, animator, voice actor
*Dr. Beanson (film) (TBA) - co-writer, animator, voice actor
===Series===
*He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (1983-1985) - animator
*Fat Albert & the Cosby Kids (1984-1985) - animator (season 8 only)
*The Jeff Jones Show (1984-1994) - animator, actor
*She-Ra: Princess of Power (1985-1986) - animator
*Ghostbusters (1986 TV series) (1986-1988) - animator
* BraveStarr (1987-1989) - animator
*The Adventures of Raggedy Ann & Andy (1988) - animator
*Geo's World (1989-1993) - writer (seasons 1-5 only)
*The Fruitties (1990-1992) - composer, editor
*Fireman Sam (1990-1994) - composer, editor (seasons 3-4 only)
*Joshua Jones (TV series) (1991) - editor
*Delfy and His Friends (1992) - composer, editor
* The Big Comfy Couch (1993-1995) - writer
*Problem Child (TV series) (1993-1994) - composer
*Loretta the Letter Lady (mid 90s) - script writer
* Sylvan (TV series) (1995-2000) - composer
*Greeny Phatom (1995-present) - creator, writer, animator
*Dr. Beanson (1996-2000) - creator, writer, animator
*Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation (1997-1998) - prop designer
*The Dr. Beanson Show (1997-1999) - co-creator, animator, writer
*Pocket Dragon Adventures (1998) - composer
*Catgirl and the Clawed Crusaders (1998-present) - producer, writer
*Greeny Phatom: The Xperience (1999-2002) - creator, animator, writer
*Argai: The Prophecy (2000-2001) - composer
*Fix & Foxi & Friends (2000-2002) - co-composer
* Scruff (TV series) (2000-2003) - composer
*Dr. PBS (TV series) (2001-2003) - creator, animator, writer
*Dr. Viacom (TV series) (2003-2005) - creator, animator, writer
*Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003 TV series) (2003-2009) - animator, writer
*Turbo Dogs (2008-2011) - animator, writer
*Shelldon (2008-2012) - animator, writer
*Greeny Phatom Kids (2008-present) - creator, animator, writer
*Raggedy Ann & Andy (TV series) (2016-present) - director, writer, animator
*The Jeff Jones Zone (2016-present) - animator
*The Dr. Clown Show (2017-2021) - creator, animator, writer
===Specials===
*He-Man & She-Ra: A Christmas Special (1985) - animator
===Short films===
*James the Artist (1981) - animator, director, writer
==Discography ==
*606 (1985)
*Resistor (1986)
*The Boy from Chicago goes to Vancouver (1987)
*Doubled (1988) (duet album with Margaret Stainton)
===With Robert's Pizza Bakers=== 
*Italian Food Songs (1984)
*Tales of the Chicago Peoples Kind (1985)
*The Ballad of the Spruce (1988)
* Lovebirds (1992)
*Robert's Pizza Bakers: Live in Concert (1993)
*From Chicago with RC Cola (1995)
* We're All Idiots (1996)
*Do the Whammy! (1997)
*The International Association of Dingbats (1998)
*The Revenge of the Spacepeckers (1999)
*The Return (2009)
*Super Pizza Bakers Forever! (2016)
* Over Italy (2018)
*Jonathan, Jonathan, Jonathan, and Jonathan (2021)
*Control of the Mind (2023)
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