Robert weide kurt vonnegut biography

Screenwriter, producer, director, documentarian

Robert B. Weide (born June 20, 1959) is an American screenwriter and television producer who served as director and executive producer of the television series Curb Your Enthusiasm from 1999 to 2004.

He has also directed several documentaries, four of which are based on the lives of comedians W. C. Fields, Mort Sahl, Lenny Bruce, and Woody Allen; his latest, Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time (2021), explores the life and works of Kurt Vonnegut.

Weide has received an Academy Award nomination and Primetime Emmy Award win for Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth (1999).

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He also received Emmy Awards for W. C. Fields: Head Up (1986), and Curb Your Enthusiasm.

Early work and education

Weide began working with film at an early job inspecting 16 mm educational films at the Fullerton Public Library in Orange County, California.

In 1978, while taking film production courses at Orange Coast Col