Robert Wise

★ Directing #218

1914 - 2005 (age 91) • Directing

Born: 9/10/1914 in Winchester, Indiana, USA

Died: 9/14/2005 (age 91)

Known for: Directing

Robert Wise

★ Directing #218

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).

Known For

Citizen Kane

80%

Editor

1941

The Sound of Music

77%

Director

1965

West Side Story

72%

Director

1961

Star Trek: The Motion Picture

65%

Director

1979

The Day the Earth Stood Still

75%

Director

1951

The Andromeda Strain

71%

Producer

1971

The Haunting

71%

Director

1963

The Magnificent Ambersons

73%

Assistant Director

1942

Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles

65%

Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

2014

Monster Madness: Mutants, Space Invaders, and Drive-Ins

60%

Self

2014

Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film

75%

Self (archive footage)

2014

Robert Wise: American Filmmaker

Self (archive footage)

2013

Glanz und Elend in Hollywood: Natalie Wood

Self

2009

Shadows in the Dark: The Val Lewton Legacy

93%

Self

2005

Männer im Trenchcoat, Frauen im Pelz

90%

Self

2004

West Side Memories

90%

Self

2003

The Andromeda Strain: Making the Film

63%

Self

2003

AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories

77%

Self

2002

Making The Earth Stand Still

80%

Self

2001

Buñuel in Hollywood

80%

Self

2000

A Storm in Summer

64%

Director

2000

Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 1

90%

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

1999

Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs

30%

Self

1998

It's All Brazil

64%

Self

1997

Lugosi: Hollywood's Dracula

85%

Self

1997

Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years

73%

Self

1997

The Stupids

48%

Stanley's Neighbor

1996

Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels

64%

Self

1996

The Battle Over Citizen Kane

74%

Self

1996

A Century of Science Fiction

69%

Self

1996

Darryl F. Zanuck: 20th Century Filmmaker

48%

Self

1995

Dark and Deadly: Fifty Years of Film Noir

Self

1995

Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick

78%

Self

1995

Mae West and the Men Who Knew Her

Self

1994

Visions of Light

70%

Self

1992

With Orson Welles: Stories from a Life in Film

70%

Self

1990