Biography

Robert D. Weinbach is a native of St. Louis, Missouri and graduate of Missouri University from which he received a B.A. degree in Radio/Television Production and Journalism.

Weinbach lived and worked in Europe and the Mid East for eight years and began his film career in Spain as co-producer of Platero & I (based on the Nobel Prize winning book by Juan Ramon Jimenez}. Subsequently, he produced and co-authored two other feature films in Spain; Hallucination starring George Montgomery and Blind Mans Bluff starring Boris Karloff, Jean Pierre Aumont and Viveca Lindfors. Upon returning to the United States, he produced The Awakening co-written by best-selling author, Robin Moore (The Green Berets and The French Connection).

In London, Weinbach co-authored and produced The Mutations (Columbia Pictures) starring Donald Pleasence, Tom Baker & Academy Award nominees, Jill Haworth and Michael Dunn and directed by Jack Cardiff (Academy Award winner, Cinematography The Red Shoes and African Queen) and New York Film Critics Winner as director of Sons & Lovers. Later, in the United States, Weinbach packaged and co-authored the screenplay for Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff based on the novel by Pulitzer Prize winning author, William Inge, starring Anne Heywood and Donald Pleasence.

Weinbach is President/owner of Cyclone Productions, Inc. and of Vidcrest which he launched in 1981, a producer/distributor in the home video market with thirty-two films in release. Included are acclaimed documentary, Mondo Cane and Pele, The Master & His Method starring sports legend, Pele and the original instructional, interactive, music video, Country & Blues Harmonica For The Absolute Beginner based on best-selling book by Jon Gindick, produced and directed by Weinbach and featuring Jon Gindick and B.B. King.

Film Production: Weinbach is a two time winner of the Houston International Film Festival Screenplay Competition for his original screenplay Jitterbug as Best Dramatic Musical and The Gold Award for his screenplay of The Killer Inside Me based on the novel by acclaimed author, Jim Thompson.

Film projects presently in development or scheduled for production based on screenplays by Weinbach in addition to Shiver are; A remake of The Killer Inside Me based on Jim Thompson's acclaimed novel - Jitterbug, a music, dance driven caper set in 1950s St. Louis - Manteca, an occult thriller set against N.Y.s Afro-Cuban music scene - A remake of Pulitzer Prize/Academy Award winner William Inge's, Good Luck Miss Wyckoff. A longtime Los Angeles resident, Weinbach is a Directors Guild and Writers Guild member.
- IMDb mini biography by: rdw