Known For
Directing
Born
Sep 10, 1914
Died
Sep 14, 2005
Place of Birth
Winchester, Indiana, USA
Credits
92 titles
Robert Wise
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 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
Filmography
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Monster Madness: Mutants, Space Invaders, and Drive-Ins
Self
Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film
Self (archive footage)
Robert Wise: American Filmmaker
Self (archive footage)
Glanz und Elend in Hollywood: Natalie Wood
Self
Shadows in the Dark: The Val Lewton Legacy
Self
Männer im Trenchcoat, Frauen im Pelz
Self
The Andromeda Strain: Making the Film
Self
West Side Memories
Self
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories
Self
Making The Earth Stand Still
Self
Buñuel in Hollywood
Self
A Storm in Summer
Director
Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 1
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs
Self
It's All Brazil
Self
Lugosi: Hollywood's Dracula
Self
Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years
Self
The Stupids
Stanley's Neighbor
Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
Self
The Battle Over Citizen Kane
Self
A Century of Science Fiction
Self
Darryl F. Zanuck: 20th Century Filmmaker
Self
Dark and Deadly: Fifty Years of Film Noir
Self
Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick
Self
Mae West and the Men Who Knew Her
Self
Visions of Light
Self
With Orson Welles: Stories from a Life in Film
Self
Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge
Self
William Holden: The Golden Boy
Self
Rooftops
Director
The RKO Story: Tales From Hollywood
Self
Wisdom
Executive Producer
The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal
Self
The Orson Welles Story
Self
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Director
Audrey Rose
Director
The Hindenburg
Director
Two People
Director
Happy Birthday, Wanda June
Producer
Film '72
Self
The Andromeda Strain
Producer
Great Performances
Self
The Baby Maker
Executive Producer
Star!
Director
The Sand Pebbles
Director
The Sound of Music
Director
Salzburg Sight and Sound
Self
The Haunting
Director
Two for the Seesaw
Director