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Gender: Male

Place of birth: Winchester, Indiana, USA

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Movie Involvements: 92

TV Involvements: 1


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Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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.   Description above from the Wikipedia article Robert Wise, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Most Famous Work

The Sound of Music
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8

The Sound of Music

(1965) Producer
Citizen Kane
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8

Citizen Kane

(1941) Editor
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
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6
The Day the Earth Stood Still
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8
The Andromeda Strain
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7

The Andromeda Strain

(1971) Producer
The Haunting
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7

The Haunting

(1963) Producer
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
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7
West Side Story
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7

West Side Story

(1961) Producer

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2014 Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Self (archive footage)
Self (archive footage)
2013 Self (archive footage)
2009 Self
2005 Self
2004 Self
2003 Self
2001 Self
1999 Self
1998 Self
1997 Self
Self
1996 Stanley's Neighbor
Self
Self
Self
1995 Self
Self
1994 Self
1992 Self
1990 Self
1987 Himself
1985 Self
1971 Self
1965 Self
1953 Self
Year Character Movie/Tv

Directing

Year Role Movie/Tv
2000 Director
1989 Director
1979 Director
1977 Director
1975 Director
1973 Director
1971 Director
1968 Director
1966 Director
1965 Director
1963 Director
1962 Director
1961 Director
1959 Director
1958 Director
Director
1957 Director
Director
1956 Director
Director
Director
1954 Director
1953 Director
Director
Director
1952 Director
Director
1951 Director
Director
1950 Director
Director
1949 Director
1948 Director
Director
1947 Director
1946 Director
1945 Director
Director
1944 Director
Director
1942 Assistant Director
Year Role Movie/Tv

Production

Crew

Year Role Movie/Tv
1951 Additional Writing
Year Role Movie/Tv

Writing

Year Role Movie/Tv
1949 Screenplay
Year Role Movie/Tv

Editing

Sound

Year Role Movie/Tv
1935 Sound Effects Editor
Sound Effects Editor
1934 Sound Effects Editor
Year Role Movie/Tv

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