Robert Wise
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Robert Wise is an American director of the sort audiences rarely picture whose part of the work happens before the audience arrives. 'West Side Story' is the other project most often mentioned. The tally is 40 titles between the two screens. 'The Sound of Music' is the one title here with a genuinely wide audience.
Robert Wise
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Robert Wise is an American director of the sort audiences rarely picture whose part of the work happens before the audience arrives. 'West Side Story' is the other project most often mentioned. The tally is 40 titles between the two screens. 'The Sound of Music' is the one title here with a genuinely wide audience.
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The Sound of Music
1965
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Star Trek: The Motion Picture
1979
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Helen of Troy
1956
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The Andromeda Strain
1971
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The Day the Earth Stood Still
1951
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West Side Story
1961
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The Haunting
1963
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The Sand Pebbles
1966
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Somebody Up There Likes Me
1956
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Audrey Rose
1977
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The Hindenburg
1975
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Run Silent, Run Deep
1958
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The Set-Up
1949
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Blood on the Moon
1948
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Until They Sail
1957
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Odds Against Tomorrow
1959
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Executive Suite
1954
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The Body Snatcher
1945
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I Want to Live!
1958
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The Desert Rats
1953
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Two Flags West
1950
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Tribute to a Bad Man
1956
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Born to Kill
1947
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The Curse of the Cat People
1944
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The House on Telegraph Hill
1951
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Star!
1968
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Three Secrets
1950
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Rooftops
1989
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Two for the Seesaw
1962
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This Could Be the Night
1957
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So Big
1953
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The Captive City
1952
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Destination Gobi
1953
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Mystery in Mexico
1948
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Criminal Court
1946
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Mademoiselle Fifi
1944
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A Game of Death
1945
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Two People
1973
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Rooftops
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1989
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Star Trek: The Motion Picture
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1979
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Audrey Rose
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1977
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The Hindenburg
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1975
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Two People
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1973
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The Andromeda Strain
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1971
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Star!
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1968
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The Sand Pebbles
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1966
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The Sound of Music
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1965
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is Robert Wise still alive?
Robert Wise passed away on September 14, 2005 at age 91.
What are the most famous roles of Robert Wise?
Robert Wise is best known for directing The Sound of Music, West Side Story, Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
How many movies has Robert Wise directed?
Over a 61-year career (since 1944), Robert Wise has directed or written 39 films and worked on 0 TV shows.
What was Robert Wise's first movie?
The career of Robert Wise began with The Curse of the Cat People (1944).
What is Robert Wise's most recent movie or series?
Robert Wise's most recent release is A Storm in Summer, which premiered on January 18, 2000.
Robert Wise
1914-09-10 · Winchester, Indiana, USA
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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