Robert Wise

Directing · Born 1914-09-10 in Winchester, Indiana, USA

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…

Filmography

• Visions of Light as Self
• Darryl F. Zanuck: 20th Century Filmmaker as Self
• Shadows in the Dark: The Val Lewton Legacy as Self
• Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs as Self
• Lugosi: Hollywood's Dracula as Self
• Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film as Self (archive footage)
• The Battle Over Citizen Kane as Self
• Monster Madness: Mutants, Space Invaders, and Drive-Ins as Self
• The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal as Self
• The Andromeda Strain: Making the Film as Self