Known For
Directing
Born
May 15, 1915
Died
Mar 17, 2002
Place of Birth
Lawton, Oklahoma, USA
Credits
132 titles
William Witney
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. William Nuelsen Witney (15 May 1915 – 17 March 2002) was an American film and television director. He is best remembered for the movie serials he co-directed with John English for Republic Pictures such as Daredevils of the Red Circle, Zorro's Fighting Legion and Drums of Fu Manchu. He directed many Westerns during his career, and is credited with devising the modern system of filming movie fight sequences in a series of carefully choreographed shots, which he patterned after the musical sequences of American director Busby Berkeley.[1] Prolific and pugnacious, Witney began directing while still in his 20s, and continued until 1982. Quentin Tarantino singles out Witney as one of his favorite directors, particularly for The Golden Stallion (1949), a Roy Rogers vehicle.[2] Witney also directed Master of the World (1961) starring Vincent Price and Charles Bronson. Description above from the Wikipedia article William Witney, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Known For
Filmography
Cliffhangers: Adventures from the Thrill Factory
Himself
Roy Rogers, King of the Cowboys
Himself (archive footage)
The Republic Pictures Story
Self
Quell and Co.
Sheriff
Western von gestern
Director
Darktown Strutters
Director
Kodiak
Director
The Cowboys
Director
I Escaped from Devil's Island
Director
The High Chaparral
Director
Hondo
Director
Tarzan's Jungle Rebellion
Director
40 Guns to Apache Pass
Director
Tarzan
Director
Bonanza: Ride the Wind
Director
Dr. Satan's Robot
Director
Spy Smasher Returns
Director
The Wild Wild West
Director
Laredo
Director
Arizona Raiders
Director
The Girls on the Beach
Director
Branded
Director
Apache Rifles
Director
Daniel Boone
Director
Marnie
Second Unit Director
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Director
The Wide Country
Director
The Virginian
Director
Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation
Second Unit Director
Frontier Circus
Director
The Cat Burglar
Director
Master of the World
Director
The Long Rope
Director
The Secret of the Purple Reef
Director
The Tall Man
Director
Coronado 9
Director
Valley of the Redwoods
Director
Overland Trail
Director
Laramie
Director
Riverboat
Director
Bonanza
Director
Paratroop Command
Director
Frontier Doctor
Director
The Bonnie Parker Story
Director
Juvenile Jungle
Director
Young and Wild
Director
The Cool and the Crazy
Director
Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer
Director
Panama Sal
Director
Zorro
Director