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)
- Spy Smasher Returns ... (Director)
- Dr. Satan's Robot ... (Director)
1965
- The Wild Wild West ... (Director)
- Laredo ... (Director)
- Branded ... (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 Cat Burglar ... (Director)
- The Long Rope ... (Director)
1960
- The Tall Man ... (Director)
- Coronado 9 ... (Director)
- Overland Trail ... (Director)
- Valley of the Redwoods ... (Director)
- The Secret of the Purple Reef ... (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)
- The Cool and the Crazy ... (Director)
- Young and Wild ... (Director)
- Juvenile Jungle ... (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
- City of Shadows ... (Director)
- Santa Fe Passage ... (Director)
- Headline Hunters ... (Director)
- The Fighting Chance ... (Director)
1954
- Stories of the Century ... (Director)
- The Outcast ... (Director)
1953
- Iron Mountain Trail ... (Director)
- Shadows of Tombstone ... (Director)
- Old Overland Trail ... (Director)
- Down Laredo Way ... (Director)
1952
- Colorado Sundown ... (Director)
- South Pacific Trail ... (Director)
- Border Saddlemates ... (Director)
- The Last Musketeer ... (Director)
- Old Oklahoma Plains ... (Director)
- The WAC from Walla Walla ... (Director)
1951
- Spoilers of the Plains ... (Director)
- Pals of the Golden West ... (Director)
- The Wild Blue Yonder as Gen. Curtis E. LeMay
- South of Caliente ... (Director)
- Heart of the Rockies ... (Director)
- In Old Amarillo ... (Director)
1950
- Twilight in the Sierras ... (Director)
- Bells of Coronado ... (Director)
- North of the Great Divide ... (Director)
- Land of Opportunity: The Mardi Gras ... (Director)
- Trigger, Jr. ... (Director)
- Trail of Robin Hood ... (Director)
- Sunset in the West ... (Director)
1949
- The Golden Stallion ... (Director)
- Down Dakota Way ... (Director)
- Susanna Pass ... (Director)
1948
- Under California Stars ... (Director)
- Grand Canyon Trail ... (Director)
- Eyes of Texas ... (Director)
- The Gay Ranchero ... (Director)
- The Far Frontier ... (Director)
- Night Time in Nevada ... (Director)
1947
- Bells of San Angelo ... (Director)
- On the Old Spanish Trail ... (Director)
- Springtime in the Sierras ... (Director)
- Apache Rose ... (Director)
1946
- Roll on Texas Moon ... (Director)
- The Crimson Ghost ... (Director)
- Heldorado ... (Director)
- Home in Oklahoma ... (Director)
1943
- Drums of Fu Manchu ... (Director)
- G-men vs. the Black Dragon ... (Director)
1942
- Perils of Nyoka ... (Director)
- Spy Smasher ... (Director)
- King of the Mounties ... (Director)
- Outlaws of Pine Ridge ... (Director)
1941
- Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc. ... (Director)
- Adventures of Captain Marvel ... (Director)
- Jungle Girl ... (Director)
- King of the Texas Rangers ... (Director)
1940
- Adventures of Red Ryder ... (Director)
- Drums of Fu Manchu ... (Director)
- Heroes of the Saddle ... (Director)
- Mysterious Doctor Satan ... (Director)
- King of the Royal Mounted ... (Director)
- Hi-Yo Silver ... (Director)
1939
- Dick Tracy's G-Men ... (Director)
- Zorro's Fighting Legion ... (Director)
- Daredevils of the Red Circle ... (Director)
- The Lone Ranger Rides Again ... (Director)
1938
- Hawk of the Wilderness ... (Director)
- The Lone Ranger ... (Director)
- The Fighting Devil Dogs ... (Director)
- Dick Tracy Returns ... (Director)
1937
- Dick Tracy ... (Editor)
- SOS Coast Guard ... (Director)
- Zorro Rides Again ... (Director)
- The Painted Stallion ... (Director)
- The Trigger Trio ... (Director)
1935
- The Singing Vagabond ... (Story)
1933
- Fighting With Kit Carson as Settler / Indian / Trooper