Robert B. Weide
| Robert B. Weide | |
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| Born | June 20, 1959 |
| Occupation | Documentarian, producer, director, screenwriter |
| Notable works | The Marx Brothers in a Nutshell, Curb Your Enthusiasm, How to Lose Friends & Alienate People |
| Notable awards | Three Emmy Awards (1986, 1999, 2003) |
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Robert B. Weide (born June 20, 1959) is an American screenwriter, producer, and director, perhaps best known for his work on documentaries and Curb Your Enthusiasm.
Weide began working with film at an early job inspecting 16mm educational films at the Fullerton Public Library in Orange County, California.
In 1978, while taking film production courses at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa, California, Weide decided to produce a documentary film on the Marx Brothers, inspired by his love of their work. 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, and became "one of the highest-rated programs in PBS history."
His projects since then include documentaries on four comedians:
Weide was the principal director and an executive producer of Curb Your Enthusiasm for the show's first five years. He was the recipient of repeated Emmy nominations for his work on the show, and won an Emmy in 2003 for his work as director during its third season.
Weide's first feature film as director, How to Lose Friends & Alienate People, was released in October 2008, to generally unfavorable reviews, though it topped the United Kingdom's box office during its opening weekend.
Weide was the director and main writer for Mr. Sloane, a 2014 British comedy series.
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