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- Birth nameRonald Brooks
- R.B. Kitaj was born on October 29, 1932 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He died on October 21, 2007 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Father of screenwriter Lem Dobbs.
- One of Kitaj's paintings appears and he is mentioned in dialogue in Woody Allen's "Irrational Man."
One of Kitaj's paintings appears (in the house of Peter Fonda's character) in Steven Soderbergh's "The Limey."
In "The Abominable Dr. Phibes," Peter Gilmore plays "Dr. Kitaj" (eaten by rats in his plane), Sean Bury plays "Lem" Vesalius, and Vincent Price plays "Anton" Phibes. The movie was written by two old friends of Kitaj's. Kitaj's son is named Anton Lemuel Kitaj (Lem Dobbs). - Kitaj is referenced in dialogue in the British film Honest (2000).
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