Robert B. Weide (born June 20, 1959) is a Jewish American writer, 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
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.
More recently, 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 is a fount of information on the Marx Brothers (Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Groucho Marx, and Zeppo Marx).
According to old friends, he was such a big Marx Brothers fan, while he was still in High School, he rented a Limo with some friends and attempted to meet and visit Groucho at his home.
