| Occupation: | Film director, producer, screenwriter |
Robert Mandell is an American animated series and film writer, director and producer.[1] Mandell headed New Frontier Productions/New Frontier Entertainment and Red Sky Entertainment. He is now the head of the company Voyager.
Robert Mandell is best known as the creator, producer and co-writer of the 1986–1987 animated series The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers (the "Collection1" edition of Galaxy Rangers features a 14-minute video interview with Mandell about his career as well as an audio commentary track[2]). Later he created the 1995–1996 animated series Princess Gwenevere and the Jewel Riders and wrote or co-wrote and directed its episodes. He was also a writer and executive producer for the American version of Thunderbirds 2086 (in association with Barry Gray[3]) and an executive producer for The King and I and the Ace Ventura, Pet Detective animated TV series, among other credits.[4]
As of 2011, Mandell has been the Chief Creative Officer and CEO of the company Red Sky Entertainment (a subsidiary of Blue Wave Entertainment),[5] whose properties include Galaxy Rangers, Heavy Metal Pulp (a series of illustrated novels published by Tor in cooperation with Heavy Metal magazine) and the novel series. Projects included producing a TV series based on Larry Niven's novel Ringworld, as well as a two-volume manga adaptation based on Ringworld,[6] a film adaptation of the Avalon book series,[7] and a re-imagined live action TV series based on the Galaxy Rangers.