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)
- The Girls on the Beach ... (Director)
- Arizona Raiders ... (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)
- The Bonnie Parker Story ... (Director)
- Juvenile Jungle ... (Director)
- The Cool and the Crazy ... (Director)
- Young and Wild ... (Director)
1957
- Zorro ... (Director)
- Panama Sal ... (Director)
1956
- State Trooper ... (Director)
- Dr. Fu Manchu ... (Director)
- Stranger at My Door ... (Director)
- A Strange Adventure ... (Director)
1955
- Santa Fe Passage ... (Director)
- Headline Hunters ... (Director)
- The Fighting Chance ... (Director)
- City of Shadows ... (Director)
1954
- Stories of the Century ... (Director)
- The Outcast ... (Director)
1953
- Old Overland Trail ... (Director)
- Iron Mountain Trail ... (Director)
- Down Laredo Way ... (Director)
- Shadows of Tombstone ... (Director)
1952
- Border Saddlemates ... (Director)
- The WAC from Walla Walla ... (Director)
- Old Oklahoma Plains ... (Director)
- Colorado Sundown ... (Director)
- South Pacific Trail ... (Director)
- The Last Musketeer ... (Director)
1951
- The Wild Blue Yonder as Gen. Curtis E. LeMay
- Pals of the Golden West ... (Director)
- Heart of the Rockies ... (Director)
- In Old Amarillo ... (Director)
- Spoilers of the Plains ... (Director)
- South of Caliente ... (Director)
1950
- Trail of Robin Hood ... (Director)
- North of the Great Divide ... (Director)
- Twilight in the Sierras ... (Director)
- Sunset in the West ... (Director)
- Trigger, Jr. ... (Director)
- Land of Opportunity: The Mardi Gras ... (Director)
- Bells of Coronado ... (Director)
1949
- Down Dakota Way ... (Director)
- Susanna Pass ... (Director)
- The Golden Stallion ... (Director)
1948
- Night Time in Nevada ... (Director)
- The Gay Ranchero ... (Director)
- Eyes of Texas ... (Director)
- The Far Frontier ... (Director)
- Under California Stars ... (Director)
- Grand Canyon Trail ... (Director)
1947
- Springtime in the Sierras ... (Director)
- Bells of San Angelo ... (Director)
- On the Old Spanish Trail ... (Director)
- Apache Rose ... (Director)
1946
- The Crimson Ghost ... (Director)
- Roll on Texas Moon ... (Director)
- Heldorado ... (Director)
- Home in Oklahoma ... (Director)
1943
- G-men vs. the Black Dragon ... (Director)
- Drums of Fu Manchu ... (Director)
1942
- Spy Smasher ... (Director)
- King of the Mounties ... (Director)
- Outlaws of Pine Ridge ... (Director)
- Perils of Nyoka ... (Director)
1941
- Adventures of Captain Marvel ... (Creator)
- Adventures of Captain Marvel ... (Director)
- Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc. ... (Director)
- King of the Texas Rangers ... (Director)
- Jungle Girl ... (Director)
1940
- Drums of Fu Manchu ... (Director)
- Adventures of Red Ryder ... (Director)
- King of the Royal Mounted ... (Director)
- Mysterious Doctor Satan ... (Director)
- Heroes of the Saddle ... (Director)
- Hi-Yo Silver ... (Director)
1939
- Dick Tracy's G-Men ... (Director)
- Zorro's Fighting Legion ... (Director)
- The Lone Ranger Rides Again ... (Director)
- Daredevils of the Red Circle ... (Director)
1938
- The Fighting Devil Dogs ... (Director)
- Hawk of the Wilderness ... (Director)
- The Lone Ranger ... (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