Robert Christian Hansen (born February 15, 1939) is an American Slapstick Comedian, Actor, Singer, Dancer, Poet, Playwright, Essayist and Author.
Early life[]
Hansen was born in Estherville, Iowa, to Christian and Edna Hansen. Throughout childhood and adolescence, Hansen was described as an energetic, optimistic, creative, funny, smart and gentle boy with a giant imagination, had been influence by all the great Writers in history such as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, O. Henry, J.M. Barrie, T.S. Eliot, Rudyard Kipling, P.G. Wodehouse, William Shakespeare, Mark Twain, James Thurber, Ludwig Bemelmans, A.A. Milne, Hans Christian Anderson, Dr. Seuss, William Blake, Lewis Carroll, Saki, Jerome J. Jerome, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, George Bernard Shaw, William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill, George S. Kaufman, Thornton Wilder, Charles Dickens, Noel Coward, Oscar Wilde, E.B. White, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John O'Hara, Damon Runyon, Irving Shaw, Edgar Wallace, Agatha Christie, Herge, Samuel Beckett and Wilbert Awdry and had a loving relationship with his family. He was frequently writing countless Short Stories and Poems for a school newsletter.