William Witney
Born: 1915-05-15 in Lawton, Oklahoma, USA
Died: 2002-03-17
Known For: Directing
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
Filmography
1993
1992
- Roy Rogers, King of the Cowboys as Himself (archive footage)
1991
- The Republic Pictures Story as Self
1982
- Quell and Co. as Sheriff
1978
- Western von gestern ... (Director)
1975
- Darktown Strutters ... (Director)
1974
- Kodiak ... (Director)
- The Cowboys ... (Director)
1973
- I Escaped from Devil's Island ... (Director)
1967
- The High Chaparral ... (Director)
- Hondo ... (Director)
- 40 Guns to Apache Pass ... (Director)
- Tarzan's Jungle Rebellion ... (Director)
1966
- Tarzan ... (Director)
- Bonanza: Ride the Wind ... (Director)
- Dr. Satan's Robot ... (Director)
- Spy Smasher Returns ... (Director)
1965
- The Wild Wild West ... (Director)
- Branded ... (Director)
- Laredo ... (Director)
- Arizona Raiders ... (Director)
- The Girls on the Beach ... (Director)
1964
- Daniel Boone ... (Director)
- Marnie ... (Second Unit Director)
- Apache Rifles ... (Director)
1962
- The Alfred Hitchcock Hour ... (Director)
- The Virginian ... (Director)
- The Wide Country ... (Director)
- Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation ... (Second Unit Director)
1961
- Frontier Circus ... (Director)
- Master of the World ... (Director)
- The Long Rope ... (Director)
- The Cat Burglar ... (Director)
1960
- The Tall Man ... (Director)
- Coronado 9 ... (Director)
- Overland Trail ... (Director)
- The Secret of the Purple Reef ... (Director)
- Valley of the Redwoods ... (Director)
1959
- Bonanza ... (Director)
- Laramie ... (Director)
- Riverboat ... (Director)
- Paratroop Command ... (Director)
1958
- Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer ... (Director)
- Frontier Doctor ... (Director)
- Juvenile Jungle ... (Director)
- The Bonnie Parker Story ... (Director)
- Young and Wild ... (Director)
- The Cool and the Crazy ... (Director)
1957
- Zorro ... (Director)
- Panama Sal ... (Director)
1956
- State Trooper ... (Director)
- Dr. Fu Manchu ... (Director)
- A Strange Adventure ... (Director)
- Stranger at My Door ... (Director)
1955
- Santa Fe Passage ... (Director)
- City of Shadows ... (Director)
- Headline Hunters ... (Director)
- The Fighting Chance ... (Director)
1954
- Stories of the Century ... (Director)
- The Outcast ... (Director)
1953
- Old Overland Trail ... (Director)
- Down Laredo Way ... (Director)
- Iron Mountain Trail ... (Director)
- Shadows of Tombstone ... (Director)
1952
- Border Saddlemates ... (Director)
- Old Oklahoma Plains ... (Director)
- The WAC from Walla Walla ... (Director)
- Colorado Sundown ... (Director)
- The Last Musketeer ... (Director)
- South Pacific Trail ... (Director)
1951
- Pals of the Golden West ... (Director)
- The Wild Blue Yonder as Gen. Curtis E. LeMay
- In Old Amarillo ... (Director)
- Heart of the Rockies ... (Director)
- Spoilers of the Plains ... (Director)
- South of Caliente ... (Director)
1950
- Trail of Robin Hood ... (Director)
- Trigger, Jr. ... (Director)
- North of the Great Divide ... (Director)
- Sunset in the West ... (Director)
- Bells of Coronado ... (Director)
- Twilight in the Sierras ... (Director)
- Land of Opportunity: The Mardi Gras ... (Director)
1949
- Susanna Pass ... (Director)
- Down Dakota Way ... (Director)
- The Golden Stallion ... (Director)
1948
- Eyes of Texas ... (Director)
- Grand Canyon Trail ... (Director)
- Under California Stars ... (Director)
- The Far Frontier ... (Director)
- Night Time in Nevada ... (Director)
- The Gay Ranchero ... (Director)
1947
- Apache Rose ... (Director)
- On the Old Spanish Trail ... (Director)
- Bells of San Angelo ... (Director)
- Springtime in the Sierras ... (Director)
1946
- The Crimson Ghost ... (Director)
- Heldorado ... (Director)
- Home in Oklahoma ... (Director)
- Roll on Texas Moon ... (Director)
1943
- Drums of Fu Manchu ... (Director)
- G-men vs. the Black Dragon ... (Director)
1942
- Spy Smasher ... (Director)
- King of the Mounties ... (Director)
- Outlaws of Pine Ridge ... (Director)
- Perils of Nyoka ... (Director)
1941
- Adventures of Captain Marvel ... (Director)
- Jungle Girl ... (Director)
- Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc. ... (Director)
- King of the Texas Rangers ... (Director)
1940
- Drums of Fu Manchu ... (Director)
- King of the Royal Mounted ... (Director)
- Hi-Yo Silver ... (Director)
- Mysterious Doctor Satan ... (Director)
- Adventures of Red Ryder ... (Director)
- Heroes of the Saddle ... (Director)
1939
- Dick Tracy's G-Men ... (Director)
- The Lone Ranger Rides Again ... (Director)
- Zorro's Fighting Legion ... (Director)
- Daredevils of the Red Circle ... (Director)
1938
- The Lone Ranger ... (Director)
- The Fighting Devil Dogs ... (Director)
- Hawk of the Wilderness ... (Director)
- Dick Tracy Returns ... (Director)
1937
- Dick Tracy ... (Editor)
- Zorro Rides Again ... (Director)
- SOS Coast Guard ... (Director)
- The Painted Stallion ... (Director)
- The Trigger Trio ... (Director)
1935
- The Singing Vagabond ... (Story)
1933
- Fighting With Kit Carson as Settler / Indian / Trooper