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Robert Wise

Robert Wise

Director · Born 1914-09-10 · Winchester, Indiana, USA

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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

  1. The Sound of Music (1965) — Director
  2. West Side Story (1961) — Director
  3. Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) — Director
  4. The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) — Director
  5. The Andromeda Strain (1971) — Director
  6. The Haunting (1963) — Director
  7. The Sand Pebbles (1966) — Director
  8. Star! (1968) — Director
  9. The Body Snatcher (1945) — Director
  10. Run Silent, Run Deep (1958) — Director
  11. Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956) — Director
  12. The Set-Up (1949) — Director
  13. The Hindenburg (1975) — Director
  14. Audrey Rose (1977) — Director
  15. The Curse of the Cat People (1944) — Director
  16. I Want to Live! (1958) — Director
  17. The Desert Rats (1953) — Director
  18. Odds Against Tomorrow (1959) — Director
  19. Born to Kill (1947) — Director
  20. Blood on the Moon (1948) — Director
  21. The House on Telegraph Hill (1951) — Director
  22. Helen of Troy (1956) — Director
  23. Executive Suite (1954) — Director
  24. Two for the Seesaw (1962) — Director
  25. Until They Sail (1957) — Director
  26. Tribute to a Bad Man (1956) — Director
  27. Two Flags West (1950) — Director
  28. The Captive City (1952) — Director
  29. Destination Gobi (1953) — Director
  30. Rooftops (1989) — Director
  31. Three Secrets (1950) — Director
  32. Criminal Court (1946) — Director
  33. This Could Be the Night (1957) — Director
  34. So Big (1953) — Director
  35. Mystery in Mexico (1948) — Director
  36. Mademoiselle Fifi (1944) — Director
  37. Two People (1973) — Director
  38. A Game of Death (1945) — Director
  39. A Storm in Summer (2000) — Director
  40. Something for the Birds (1952) — Director

Also appeared in

  1. The Stupids (1996) — Stanley's Neighbor
  2. The Oscars (1953) — Self
  3. Visions of Light (1992) — Self
  4. Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles (2014) — Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
  5. The Battle Over Citizen Kane (1996) — Self
  6. Great Performances (1971) — Self
  7. Shadows in the Dark: The Val Lewton Legacy (2005) — Self
  8. The Mike Douglas Show (1961) — Self
  9. Film '72 (1971) — Self
  10. Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick (1995) — Self
  11. A Century of Science Fiction (1996) — Self
  12. Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels (1996) — Self
  13. Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years (1997) — Self
  14. It's All Brazil (1997) — Self
  15. Darryl F. Zanuck: 20th Century Filmmaker (1995) — Self
  16. Lugosi: Hollywood's Dracula (1997) — Self
  17. Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film (2014) — Self (archive footage)
  18. The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal (1986) — Self
  19. The Andromeda Strain: Making the Film (2003) — Self
  20. AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories (2002) — Self
  21. Salzburg Sight and Sound (1965) — Self
  22. Buñuel in Hollywood (2000) — Self
  23. The RKO Story: Tales From Hollywood (1987) — Self
  24. Männer im Trenchcoat, Frauen im Pelz (2004) — Self
  25. Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 1 (1999) — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
  26. Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs (1998) — Self
  27. Monster Madness: Mutants, Space Invaders, and Drive-Ins (2014) — Self
  28. Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge (1990) — Self
  29. Making The Earth Stand Still (2001) — Self
  30. With Orson Welles: Stories from a Life in Film (1990) — Self
  31. West Side Memories (2003) — Self
  32. The Orson Welles Story (1982) — Self
  33. Glanz und Elend in Hollywood: Natalie Wood (2009) — Self
  34. William Holden: The Golden Boy (1989) — Self
  35. Dark and Deadly: Fifty Years of Film Noir (1995) — Self
  36. Mae West and the Men Who Knew Her (1994) — Self
  37. Robert Wise: American Filmmaker (2013) — Self (archive footage)