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- Robert Earl Wise (September 10, 1914 – September 14, 2005) was an American filmmaker. He won the Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Picture for his musical films West Side Story (1961) and The Sound of Music (1965).
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Robert Earl Wise (September 10, 1914 – September 14, 2005) was an American filmmaker. He won the Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Picture for his musical films West Side Story (1961) and The Sound of Music (1965).
Robert Wise, American movie director and producer whose many works include successful films of nearly every genre, though he is best remembered for the two blockbuster musicals West Side Story (1961) and The Sound of Music (1965).
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Robert Wise. Director: West Side Story. Robert Earl Wise was born on September 10, 1914 in Winchester, Indiana, the youngest of three sons of Olive R. (Longenecker) and Earl Waldo Wise, a meat packer. His parents were both of Pennsylvania Dutch (German) descent.
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Robert Wise. Director: West Side Story. Robert Earl Wise was born on September 10, 1914 in Winchester, Indiana, the youngest of three sons of Olive R. (Longenecker) and Earl Waldo Wise, a meat packer. His parents were both of Pennsylvania Dutch (German) descent.
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- September 14, 2005
- WEST SIDE STORY (1961) Directed by Wise and Jerome Robbins. Screenplay by Ernest Lehman, based on the musical by Robbins, Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, and Arthur Laurents, and ‘Romeo and Juliet’ by William Shakespeare.
- THE SOUND OF MUSIC (1965) Screenplay by Ernest Lehman, based on the musical by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. Starring Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Peggy Wood.
- THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL (1951) Screenplay by Edmund H. North, based on ‘Farewell to the Master’ by Harry Bates. Starring Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal, Hugh Marlowe, Sam Jaffe.
- THE SET-UP (1949) Screenplay by Art Cohn, based on a poem by Joseph Moncure March. Starring Robert Ryan, Audrey Totter, George Tobias. The best of Wise’s film noirs is also one of the great boxing dramas.
Sep 7, 2022 · In 1978, four-time Oscar-winning filmmaker Robert Wise was tasked with adapting Star Trek for the big screen, a departure from films like 1961's West Side Story and 1965's The Sound of Music that made him famous.
Apr 28, 2020 · Born in Winchester, Indiana on September 10, 1914, Robert Earl Wise was from an early age enamoured by the movies while growing up in nearby Connersville. At college he hoped to major in journalism, but was forced to withdraw when the Depression took its toll on the family’s finances.
