Robert Wise
Biography
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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.
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Acting (29 movies)
Glanz und Elend in Hollywood: Natalie Wood
2009
Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 1
1999
Visions of Light
1992
Darryl F. Zanuck: 20th Century Filmmaker
1995
Shadows in the Dark: The Val Lewton Legacy
2005
Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs
1998
Lugosi: Hollywood's Dracula
1997
Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film
2014
The Battle Over Citizen Kane
1996
Monster Madness: Mutants, Space Invaders, and Drive-Ins
2014
William Holden: The Golden Boy
1989
Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge
1990
Making The Earth Stand Still
2001
The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal
1986
Dark and Deadly: Fifty Years of Film Noir
1995
The Andromeda Strain: Making the Film
2003
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
2014
Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick
1995
The Stupids
1996
A Century of Science Fiction
1996
West Side Memories
2003
Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
1996
Mae West and the Men Who Knew Her
1994
Robert Wise: American Filmmaker
2013
Salzburg Sight and Sound
1965
Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years
1997
Buñuel in Hollywood
2000
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories
2002
The Orson Welles Story
1982
Directing (40 movies)
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
1979
West Side Story
1961
The Day the Earth Stood Still
1951
The Andromeda Strain
1971
The Body Snatcher
1945
The Sand Pebbles
1966
The Haunting
1963
Odds Against Tomorrow
1959
Born to Kill
1947
The House on Telegraph Hill
1951
The Curse of the Cat People
1944
I Want to Live!
1958
Somebody Up There Likes Me
1956
The Desert Rats
1953
Blood on the Moon
1948
Helen of Troy
1956
The Sound of Music
1965
Executive Suite
1954
Three Secrets
1950
Criminal Court
1946
The Captive City
1952
The Set-Up
1949
The Hindenburg
1975
Audrey Rose
1977
Run Silent, Run Deep
1958
So Big
1953
Star!
1968
Tribute to a Bad Man
1956
Two for the Seesaw
1962
Mademoiselle Fifi
1944
This Could Be the Night
1957
Destination Gobi
1953
Two Flags West
1950
Until They Sail
1957
A Game of Death
1945
A Storm in Summer
2000
Mystery in Mexico
1948
Two People
1973
Something for the Birds
1952
Rooftops
1989
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| The Set-Up | 1949 | Screenplay |
| Odds Against Tomorrow | 1959 | Producer |
| West Side Story | 1961 | Producer |
| The Haunting | 1963 | Producer |
| The Sound of Music | 1965 | Producer |
| The Sand Pebbles | 1966 | Producer |
| The Baby Maker | 1970 | Executive Producer |
| The Andromeda Strain | 1971 | Producer |
| Happy Birthday, Wanda June | 1971 | Producer |
| Two People | 1973 | Producer |
| The Hindenburg | 1975 | Producer |
| Wisdom | 1986 | Executive Producer |