Film and television production designer and art director Robert Kinoshita, best known for designing the robot from the 1960s cult hit sci-fi series "Lost in Space" and its ancestor, Robby the Robot from the film "Forbidden Planet," died Dec. 9 at age 100.
The robot from "Lost in Space" was famous for declaring, in a mechanical but definitely somewhat panicked tone, "Danger! Danger, Will Robinson!"
Kinoshita worked on his first film in 1937, "100 Men and a Girl," but his film career was temporarily derailed when he and his wife were forced into a Japanese internment camp in Arizona during World War II.
He eventually returned to Hollywood to work on the 1956 sci-fi classic "Forbidden Planet" as a robot builder, including work on the film's Robby the Robot.