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Robert D. Siegel

Biography

Robert D. Siegel is an American screenwriter known for The Onion Movie and The Wrestler, as well as the writer and director of Big Fan. His movie The Wrestler won the Golden Lion at the 2008 Venice Film Festival and has earned several Best Picture nominations. Big Fan premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2009. It was revealed in an online interview that Siegel attempted to write drafts for a comedy film but it ended up being a drama because of the conflicts in the film as well as avoiding Patton Oswalt being typecast as a comedic character.

Siegel is a graduate of the University of Michigan who later became senior editor of The Onion from 1996 to 1999, and editor-in-chief from 1999 to 2003.

Actor

Big Fan

2009

as Front-Lawn Reporter #1

The Wrestler

2008

as Autograph Fan #1

Documentaries

Within the Ring

2009

as Self

Directing

Cruise

2018

Director

Big Fan

2009

Director

Production

Big Fan

2009

Casting

Writing

Cruise

2018

Writer

The Founder

2016

Writer

Turbo

2013

Screenplay

Big Fan

2009

Writer

The Wrestler

2008

Screenplay

The Onion Movie

2008

Writer

American Huckster

Screenplay

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