Robert B. Weide (born June 20, 1959) is a screenwriter, producer, and director, perhaps best known for his documentaries and his work on Curb Your Enthusiasm.
Weide's career began with an early passion for the Marx Brothers. In 1978, while taking film production courses at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa, California, he announced his intention to produce a documentary film on the Marx Brothers. Undeterred about his career plans by repeated rejections of his applications to the USC School of Cinema-Television, he worked on the project on his own time, and with help from Charles H. Joffe got the rights to clips necessary to make the film. The Marx Brothers In a Nutshell was broadcast in 1982 on PBS.
His projects since then include documentaries on
W.C. Fields: Straight Up, which won a 1986 Emmy Award;
Mort Sahl: The Loyal Opposition; and
Lenny Bruce: Swear To Tell the Truth, a 1998 documentary which also won an Emmy and was nominated for an Oscar;
He also wrote and produced the 1996 film adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's Mother Night. With Vonnegut's support, Weide chronicled him on film starting in 1988; a documentary, including footage from 16mm home movies dating back to 1925, is in the works. Weide was also working on a film adaptation of The Sirens of Titan until the film rights were sold to another producer.
Writing under the pseudonym Wyaduck (a Marx Borthers reference), Weide is a frequent poster to Usenet group alt.books.kurt-vonnegut, where he reported on the progress of the Mother Night project, as well as his being mentioned in Vonnegut's Timequake .
Weide is an executive producer and the principal director of Curb Your Enthusiasm. He's been the recipient of repeated Emmy nominations for his work on the show, and won an Emmy in 2003 for one of the episodes from its third season.
Weide's first feature film as director, How to Lose Friends & Alienate People, is scheduled for release in 2008.
External links
Robert B. Weide at the Internet Movie Database
Biography from the HBO website
40-Minute audio interview with Robert Weide on The Sound of Young America
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Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series
Todd Holland (2001) · Michael Patrick King (2002) · Robert B. Weide (2003) · Joe Russo / Anthony Russo (2004) · Charles McDougall (2005) · Marc Buckland (2006) · Richard Shepard (2007)
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