Biography
Robert Earl Wise (September 10, 1914 – September 14, 2005) was an American sound effects editor, film editor, film producer and director. He won Academy Awards as Best Director for The Sound of Music (1965) and West Side Story (1961) as well as nominations as Best Film Editing for Citizen Kane (1941) and Best Picture for The Sand Pebbles (1966). Among his other films are Born to Kill; Destination Gobi; The Hindenburg; Star Trek: The Motion Picture; The Day the Earth Stood Still; Run Silent, Run Deep; The Andromeda Strain; The Set-Up; The Haunting; and The Body Snatcher. Wise's working period spanned the 1930s to the 1990s. Often contrasted with contemporary "auteur" directors such as Stanley Kubrick who tended to bring a distinctive directorial "look" to a particular genre, Wise is famously viewed to have allowed his (sometimes studio assigned) story to dictate style. Later critics such as Martin Scorsese would go on to expand that characterization, insisting that despite Wise's notorious workaday concentration on stylistic perfection within the confines of genre and budget, his choice of subject matter and approach still functioned to identify Wise as an artist and not merely an…
Directed
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The Sound of Music (1965) — Director
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West Side Story (1961) — Director
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Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) — Director
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The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) — Director
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The Andromeda Strain (1971) — Director
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The Haunting (1963) — Director
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The Sand Pebbles (1966) — Director
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Star! (1968) — Director
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The Body Snatcher (1945) — Director
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Run Silent, Run Deep (1958) — Director
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Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956) — Director
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The Set-Up (1949) — Director
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The Hindenburg (1975) — Director
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Audrey Rose (1977) — Director
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The Curse of the Cat People (1944) — Director
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I Want to Live! (1958) — Director
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The Desert Rats (1953) — Director
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Odds Against Tomorrow (1959) — Director
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Born to Kill (1947) — Director
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Blood on the Moon (1948) — Director
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The House on Telegraph Hill (1951) — Director
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Helen of Troy (1956) — Director
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Executive Suite (1954) — Director
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Two for the Seesaw (1962) — Director
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Until They Sail (1957) — Director
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Tribute to a Bad Man (1956) — Director
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Two Flags West (1950) — Director
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The Captive City (1952) — Director
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Destination Gobi (1953) — Director
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Rooftops (1989) — Director
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Three Secrets (1950) — Director
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Criminal Court (1946) — Director
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This Could Be the Night (1957) — Director
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So Big (1953) — Director
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Mystery in Mexico (1948) — Director
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Mademoiselle Fifi (1944) — Director
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Two People (1973) — Director
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A Game of Death (1945) — Director
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A Storm in Summer (2000) — Director
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Something for the Birds (1952) — Director
Also appeared in
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The Stupids (1996) — Stanley's Neighbor
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The Oscars (1953) — Self
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Visions of Light (1992) — Self
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Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles (2014) — Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
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The Battle Over Citizen Kane (1996) — Self
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Great Performances (1971) — Self
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Shadows in the Dark: The Val Lewton Legacy (2005) — Self
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The Mike Douglas Show (1961) — Self
- Film '72 (1971) — Self
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Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick (1995) — Self
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A Century of Science Fiction (1996) — Self
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Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels (1996) — Self
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Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years (1997) — Self
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It's All Brazil (1997) — Self
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Darryl F. Zanuck: 20th Century Filmmaker (1995) — Self
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Lugosi: Hollywood's Dracula (1997) — Self
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Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film (2014) — Self (archive footage)
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The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal (1986) — Self
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The Andromeda Strain: Making the Film (2003) — Self
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories (2002) — Self
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Salzburg Sight and Sound (1965) — Self
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Buñuel in Hollywood (2000) — Self
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The RKO Story: Tales From Hollywood (1987) — Self
- Männer im Trenchcoat, Frauen im Pelz (2004) — Self
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Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 1 (1999) — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
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Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs (1998) — Self
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Monster Madness: Mutants, Space Invaders, and Drive-Ins (2014) — Self
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Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge (1990) — Self
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Making The Earth Stand Still (2001) — Self
- With Orson Welles: Stories from a Life in Film (1990) — Self
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West Side Memories (2003) — Self
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The Orson Welles Story (1982) — Self
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Glanz und Elend in Hollywood: Natalie Wood (2009) — Self
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William Holden: The Golden Boy (1989) — Self
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Dark and Deadly: Fifty Years of Film Noir (1995) — Self
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Mae West and the Men Who Knew Her (1994) — Self
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Robert Wise: American Filmmaker (2013) — Self (archive footage)