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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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- 1934–2000
- Film director, film producer, film editor
- Robert Earl Wise, September 10, 1914, Winchester, Indiana, U.S.
Born Robert Earl Wise, September 10, 1914, in Winchester, IN; died of heart failure, September 14, 2005, in Los Angeles, CA. Director. In a career that spanned five decades, film director Robert Wise never limited himself to working in a single genre, and made movies that ranged from sci-fi to film noir.
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Robert E. Wise Jr., the Representative from West Virginia - in Congress from 1999 through 2001.
Male. Birth Details. September 10, 1914. Winchester, Indiana, United States. Famous Works. Credits; PRINCIPAL FILM WORK; DIRECTOR. The Curse of the Cat People (co-directed with Gunther von Fritsch), RKO,1944. Mademoiselle Fifi, RKO, 1944. The Body Snatchers, RKO, 1945. A Game of Death, RKO, 1945. Criminal Court, RKO, 1946. Born to Kill, RKO, 1947.
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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- Winchester, Indiana, USA
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Robert Ellsworth Wise Jr. (born January 6, 1948) is an American politician who served as the 33rd Governor of West Virginia from 2001 to 2005. A member of the Democratic Party, Wise also served in the United States House of Representatives from 1983 until 2001.
Robert Earl Wise was an American sound effects editor, film editor, film producer and director. He won Academy Awards as Best Director for The Sound of Music and West Side Story as well as nominations as Best Film Editing for Citizen Kane and Best Picture for The Sand Pebbles.
