Robert Wise
Directing
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 artisan. Through whatever means, Wise's approach would bring him critical success as a director in many different traditional film genres: from horror to noir to Western to war films to science fiction, to musical and drama, with many repeat hits within each genre. Wise's tendency towards professionalism led to a degree of preparedness which, though nominally motivated by studio budget constraints, nevertheless advanced the moviemaking art, with many Academy Award-winning films the result. Robert Wise received the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1998. Description above from the Wikipedia article Robert Wise, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
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movieA Storm in Summer
2000
Director
movieRooftops
1989
Director
movieAudrey Rose
1977
Director
movieThe Hindenburg
1975
Director
movieTwo People
1973
Director
movieThe Andromeda Strain
1971
Director
movieStar!
1968
Director
movieThe Sand Pebbles
1966
Director
movieThe Sound of Music
1965
Director
movieThe Haunting
1963
Director
movieTwo for the Seesaw
1962
Director
movieWest Side Story
1961
Director
movieOdds Against Tomorrow
1959
Director
movieI Want to Live!
1958
Director
movieRun Silent, Run Deep
1958
Director
movieUntil They Sail
1957
Director
movieThis Could Be the Night
1957
Director
movieTribute to a Bad Man
1956
Director
movieHelen of Troy
1956
Director
movieExecutive Suite
1954
Director
movieSo Big
1953
Director
movieThe Desert Rats
1953
Director
movieDestination Gobi
1953
Director
movieSomething for the Birds
1952
Director
movieThe Captive City
1952
Director
movieThree Secrets
1950
Director
movieTwo Flags West
1950
Director
movieThe Set-Up
1949
Director
movieBlood on the Moon
1948
Director
movieMystery in Mexico
1948
Director
movieBorn to Kill
1947
Director
movieCriminal Court
1946
Director
movieA Game of Death
1945
Director
movieThe Body Snatcher
1945
Director
movieMademoiselle Fifi
1944
Director
movieThe Magnificent Ambersons
1942
Assistant Director
Acting37
movieMagician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
2014
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
movieMonster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film
2014
Self (archive footage)
movieRobert Wise: American Filmmaker
2013
Self (archive footage)
movieHollywood Screen Tests: Take 1
1999
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
movieThe Stupids
1996
Stanley's Neighbor
tvThe Oscars
1953
Self
Editing11
Production11
movieWisdom
1986
Executive Producer
movieThe Hindenburg
1975
Producer
movieTwo People
1973
Producer
movieThe Andromeda Strain
1971
Producer
movieThe Baby Maker
1970
Executive Producer
movieThe Sand Pebbles
1966
Producer
movieThe Sound of Music
1965
Producer
movieThe Haunting
1963
Producer
movieTwo for the Seesaw
1962
Co-Producer
movieOdds Against Tomorrow
1959
Producer
Crew1
movieThe House on Telegraph Hill
1951
Additional Writing
Sound1
movieThe Informer
1935
Sound Effects Editor
Writing1
movieThe Set-Up
1949
Screenplay