
Robert J. Thompson
Biography
Robert James Thompson is an American media scholar. He's been a professor at Syracuse University since 1990 and is the founding director of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture. He has written multiple books and has been interviewed on many documentaries, radio and television shows for his expansive knowledge in television history.
Known For
What Is Jeopardy!?: Alex Trebek and America's Most Popular Quiz Show
Self
Square Roots: The Story of SpongeBob SquarePants
Self
Mr. SOUL!
Self
American Cannibal
Self - Bob Thompson
The Real Mad Men of Advertising
Self
Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg
Self
American Experience
Self
Notorious
Self
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Filmography
Acting (17)
Movies (6)
Television (11)
TV We Love
2025as Self
Menendez Brothers: Victims or Villains
2024as Self
Dark Side of the 2000s
2023as Self
The Story of Late Night
2021as Self
Dark Side of the 90's
2021as Self
Notorious
2019as Self
The Real Mad Men of Advertising
2017as Self
American Greed
2007as Self
Generation Boom
2006as Self
The Unexplained
1996as Self - Bob Thompson
American Experience
1988as Self
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