Robert B. Weide

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Robert B. Weide

Award-winning writer, producer, and director

Robert B. 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. "Curb" also received the Golden Globe Award in 2003 as Best Television Comedy Series.

Robert has also won Emmys for his documentaries W.C. Fields: Straight Up (1986) and Lenny Bruce: Swear To Tell the Truth (1998), also nominated for an Oscar.

His first feature as director, How to Lose Friends & Alienate People, should hit theaters sometime in 2008. It is based on the best-selling comic memoir by Toby Young and stars Simon Pegg (''Shaun of the Dead,'' ''Hot Fuzz''), Kirsten Dunst, Jeff Bridges, Danny Huston, Megan Fox, Gillian Anderson, and Max Minghella.

For much more on Robert and his projects, visit Whyaduck, the production company he founded in 1981.