Robert Wise
Born: 1914-09-10 in Winchester, Indiana, USA
Died: 2005-09-14
Known For: Directing
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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.
Filmography
2014
- Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
- Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film as Self (archive footage)
- Monster Madness: Mutants, Space Invaders, and Drive-Ins as Self
2013
- Robert Wise: American Filmmaker as Self (archive footage)
2009
2005
2004
2003
- The Andromeda Strain: Making the Film as Self
- West Side Memories as Self
2001
- Making The Earth Stand Still as Self
2000
- A Storm in Summer ... (Director)
- Buñuel in Hollywood as Self
1999
- Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 1 as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1998
1997
- Lugosi: Hollywood's Dracula as Self
- Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years as Self
1996
- The Stupids as Stanley's Neighbor
- The Battle Over Citizen Kane as Self
- Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels as Self
- A Century of Science Fiction as Self
1995
1994
1992
- Visions of Light as Self
1990
1989
- Rooftops ... (Director)
- William Holden: The Golden Boy as Self
1987
1986
- Wisdom ... (Executive Producer)
- The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal as Self
1982
- The Orson Welles Story as Self
1979
- Star Trek: The Motion Picture ... (Director)
1977
- Audrey Rose ... (Director)
1975
- The Hindenburg ... (Director)
1973
- Two People ... (Director)
1971
- Great Performances as Self
- The Andromeda Strain ... (Producer)
- Happy Birthday, Wanda June ... (Producer)
1970
- The Baby Maker ... (Executive Producer)
1968
- Star! ... (Director)
1966
- The Sand Pebbles ... (Director)
1965
- The Sound of Music ... (Director)
- Salzburg Sight and Sound as Self
1963
- The Haunting ... (Director)
1962
- Two for the Seesaw ... (Director)
1961
- West Side Story ... (Director)
1959
- Odds Against Tomorrow ... (Producer)
1958
- Run Silent, Run Deep ... (Director)
- I Want to Live! ... (Director)
1957
- Until They Sail ... (Director)
- This Could Be the Night ... (Director)
1956
- Helen of Troy ... (Director)
- Somebody Up There Likes Me ... (Director)
- Tribute to a Bad Man ... (Director)
1954
- Executive Suite ... (Director)
1953
- The Oscars as Self
- Destination Gobi ... (Director)
- So Big ... (Director)
- The Desert Rats ... (Director)
1952
- The Captive City ... (Director)
- Something for the Birds ... (Director)
1951
- The Day the Earth Stood Still ... (Director)
- The House on Telegraph Hill ... (Director)
1950
- Three Secrets ... (Director)
- Two Flags West ... (Director)
1949
- The Set-Up ... (Screenplay)
1948
- Blood on the Moon ... (Director)
- Mystery in Mexico ... (Director)
1947
- Born to Kill ... (Director)
1946
- Criminal Court ... (Director)
1945
- The Body Snatcher ... (Director)
- A Game of Death ... (Director)
1944
- The Curse of the Cat People ... (Director)
- Mademoiselle Fifi ... (Director)
1943
- Bombardier ... (Editor)
- The Fallen Sparrow ... (Editor)
1942
- The Magnificent Ambersons ... (Assistant Director)
- Seven Days' Leave ... (Editor)
1941
- Citizen Kane ... (Editor)
- All That Money Can Buy ... (Editor)
1940
- My Favorite Wife ... (Editor)
- Dance, Girl, Dance ... (Editor)
1939
- Bachelor Mother ... (Editor)
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame ... (Editor)
- Fifth Avenue Girl ... (Editor)
1935
- The Informer ... (Sound Effects Editor)