Father (with Fay Wray of Victoria Riskin (b. 1945), Robert Riskin Jr., Susan Riskin (b. 1938, adopted by Riskin in 1942 after her birth father committed suicide).
Best known for his visions of an idealised America as represented in his collaborations with director Frank Capra.
During WW2 he worked for the Office of War Information, heading the
motion picture division of their overseas branch. He produced
propaganda films promoting the American way of life to be shown in
theaters liberated from the Nazi's.
Wrote plays while still at college and had his first play produced two years later, in 1914.