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
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)
- Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation ... (Second Unit Director)
- The Wide Country ... (Director)
1961
- The Cat Burglar ... (Director)
- The Long Rope ... (Director)
- Frontier Circus ... (Director)
- Master of the World ... (Director)
1960
- The Tall Man ... (Director)
- Coronado 9 ... (Director)
- Valley of the Redwoods ... (Director)
- Overland Trail ... (Director)
- The Secret of the Purple Reef ... (Director)
1959
- Bonanza ... (Director)
- Laramie ... (Director)
- Paratroop Command ... (Director)
- Riverboat ... (Director)
1958
- Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer ... (Director)
- Juvenile Jungle ... (Director)
- The Bonnie Parker Story ... (Director)
- Frontier Doctor ... (Director)
- Young and Wild ... (Director)
- The Cool and the Crazy ... (Director)
1957
- Zorro ... (Director)
- Panama Sal ... (Director)
1956
- State Trooper ... (Director)
- Stranger at My Door ... (Director)
- Dr. Fu Manchu ... (Director)
- A Strange Adventure ... (Director)
1955
- Headline Hunters ... (Director)
- Santa Fe Passage ... (Director)
- City of Shadows ... (Director)
- The Fighting Chance ... (Director)
1954
- The Outcast ... (Director)
- Stories of the Century ... (Director)
1953
- Old Overland Trail ... (Director)
- Down Laredo Way ... (Director)
- Iron Mountain Trail ... (Director)
- Shadows of Tombstone ... (Director)
1952
- Colorado Sundown ... (Director)
- Old Oklahoma Plains ... (Director)
- South Pacific Trail ... (Director)
- The Last Musketeer ... (Director)
- The WAC from Walla Walla ... (Director)
- Border Saddlemates ... (Director)
1951
- The Wild Blue Yonder as Gen. Curtis E. LeMay
- In Old Amarillo ... (Director)
- Pals of the Golden West ... (Director)
- Spoilers of the Plains ... (Director)
- Heart of the Rockies ... (Director)
- South of Caliente ... (Director)
1950
- Trigger, Jr. ... (Director)
- Sunset in the West ... (Director)
- Twilight in the Sierras ... (Director)
- Trail of Robin Hood ... (Director)
- North of the Great Divide ... (Director)
- Bells of Coronado ... (Director)
- Land of Opportunity: The Mardi Gras ... (Director)
1949
- Susanna Pass ... (Director)
- The Golden Stallion ... (Director)
- Down Dakota Way ... (Director)
1948
- Under California Stars ... (Director)
- The Far Frontier ... (Director)
- Night Time in Nevada ... (Director)
- The Gay Ranchero ... (Director)
- Eyes of Texas ... (Director)
- Grand Canyon Trail ... (Director)
1947
- Apache Rose ... (Director)
- Springtime in the Sierras ... (Director)
- On the Old Spanish Trail ... (Director)
- Bells of San Angelo ... (Director)
1946
- Heldorado ... (Director)
- Home in Oklahoma ... (Director)
- The Crimson Ghost ... (Director)
- Roll on Texas Moon ... (Director)
1943
- G-men vs. the Black Dragon ... (Director)
- Drums of Fu Manchu ... (Director)
1942
- Spy Smasher ... (Director)
- Perils of Nyoka ... (Director)
- King of the Mounties ... (Director)
- Outlaws of Pine Ridge ... (Director)
1941
- Jungle Girl ... (Director)
- Adventures of Captain Marvel ... (Director)
- King of the Texas Rangers ... (Director)
- Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc. ... (Director)
1940
- King of the Royal Mounted ... (Director)
- Drums of Fu Manchu ... (Director)
- Heroes of the Saddle ... (Director)
- Mysterious Doctor Satan ... (Director)
- Hi-Yo Silver ... (Director)
- Adventures of Red Ryder ... (Director)
1939
- Daredevils of the Red Circle ... (Director)
- The Lone Ranger Rides Again ... (Director)
- Dick Tracy's G-Men ... (Director)
- Zorro's Fighting Legion ... (Director)
1938
- Dick Tracy Returns ... (Director)
- Hawk of the Wilderness ... (Director)
- The Fighting Devil Dogs ... (Director)
- The Lone Ranger ... (Director)
1937
- The Trigger Trio ... (Director)
- Dick Tracy ... (Editor)
- Zorro Rides Again ... (Director)
- SOS Coast Guard ... (Director)
- The Painted Stallion ... (Director)
1935
- The Singing Vagabond ... (Story)
1933
- Fighting With Kit Carson as Settler / Indian / Trooper