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Robert Wise

Robert Earl Wise was an eclectic and acclaimed film director, producer and editor who is most often identified with the two grand-scale musicals that won him Academy Awards, West Side Story (1961) and The Sound of Music (1965). His movies included such diverse genres as Orson Welles's masterpiece Citizen Kane (1941), The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), Executive Suite (1954), Run Silent, Run Deep (1958), Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956), I Want to Live! (1958), Odds Against Tomorrow (1959) and The Haunting (1963).


Aliases
  • Robert E. Wise
English

Director

Movie The Sound of Music 1965
Movie West Side Story 1961
Movie Star Trek: The Motion Picture 1979
Movie Blood on the Moon 1948
Movie Criminal Court 1946
Movie A Storm in Summer 2000
Movie Tribute to a Bad Man 1956
Movie The Body Snatcher 1945
Movie So Big 1953
Movie Mystery in Mexico 1948
Movie The Day the Earth Stood Still 1951
Movie The Hindenburg 1975
Movie The Haunting 1963
Movie Run Silent, Run Deep 1958
Movie Executive Suite 1954
Movie The Sand Pebbles 1966
Movie The Andromeda Strain 1971
Movie The Curse of the Cat People 1944
Movie Two Flags West 1950
Movie Somebody Up There Likes Me 1956
Movie Star! 1968
Movie The Set-Up 1949
Movie Something for the Birds 1952
Movie Rooftops 1989
Movie A Game of Death 1945
Movie The Desert Rats 1953
Movie Two for the Seesaw 1962
Movie Destination Gobi 1953
Movie This Could Be the Night 1957
Movie Two People 1973
Movie Until They Sail 1957
Movie Born to Kill 1947
Movie Audrey Rose 1977
Movie The House on Telegraph Hill 1951
Movie I Want to Live! 1958
Movie The Captive City 1952
Movie Odds Against Tomorrow 1959
Movie Three Secrets 1950
Movie Mademoiselle Fifi 1944
Movie Helen of Troy 1956

Writer

Movie The Set-Up 1949

Producer

Movie The Sound of Music 1965
Movie West Side Story 1961
Movie The Hindenburg 1975
Movie The Haunting 1963
Movie The Sand Pebbles 1966
Movie The Andromeda Strain 1971
Movie Wisdom 1986
Movie Two for the Seesaw 1962
Movie Two People 1973
Movie The Baby Maker 1970
Movie Odds Against Tomorrow 1959
Movie Happy Birthday, Wanda June 1971

Guest Star

Episode The Fearmakers Collection
Jacques Tourneur: Master of Shadowy Shockers
1970
Episode E! True Hollywood Story
Natalie Wood
1997
Episode The Fearmakers Collection
A Conversation with Robert Wise
1970
Episode The Fearmakers Collection
Roman Polanski: Master of Psychological Suspense
1970