Robert Yost(1886-1967)
- Writer
- Actor
Robert M. Yost, son of Alice Kern (Yost) and Robert M. Yost and brother
of writer Dorothy Yost, was educated in the public schools of St. Louis
and attended Carthage College in Carthage, Illinois. Began his career
as a reporter/writer for the St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch. Later,
worked for the Los Angeles Examiner and then the Los Angeles Morning
Herald and the Hearst syndicate services. In 1920, was named the
Publicity Director for Fox West Coast Studios and, in early 1930, was
appointed head of the scenario department for Fox. Left Fox shortly
after the merger of Fox Film Corporation with Darryl F. Zanuck's
Century Pictures.
