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Robert Wise
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American film director, film producer and film editor (1914–2005)
OverviewAI-generated
Robert Wise was a person from Great Britain whose professional career began in 1942. He was recognized in the Academy Award Best Director collection and the Hollywood Walk Of Fame collection. His work period spanned from 1942 until his death on September 14, 2005. He was born on September 10, 1914.
As an author, Wise is associated with twenty-two works. Notable titles include *The Jerusalem Scroll*, *Assassins*, *How to Sell the Wise Way*, *Understanding and Loving a Person with Borderline Personality Disorder*, and *Deleted!*. Crossref data indicates five works, while Open Library lists twenty-two. His name is referenced by 949 other encyclopedia articles.
Synthesized by Vinony from 16 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 22
Top works
- The Jerusalem Scroll
- Assassins
- How to Sell the Wise Way
- Understanding and Loving a Person with Borderline Personality Disorder
- Deleted!
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 2,320
- Total plays
- 4,594
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Robert
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Winchester
- Place of death
- Los Angeles
- Occupation
- director
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Conflict
- World War II
- Image
- Robert wise 1990.jpg
Show 10 more facts
- name in native language
- Robert Wise
- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- date of birth
- 1914-09-10
- date of death
- 2005-09-14
- Commons category
- Robert Wise
- nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Picture
- manner of death
- natural causes
- related category
- Category:Films directed by Robert Wise
- start of work period
- 1942-00-00
- birth name
- Robert Earl Wise
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Encyclopedic overview
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). He was also nominated for Best Film Editing for Citizen Kane (1941) and directed and produced The Sand Pebbles (1966), which was nominated for Best Picture.
Among his other films are The Body Snatcher (1945), Born to Kill (1947), The Set-Up (1949), The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), Destination Gobi (1953), This Could Be The Night (1957), Run Silent, Run Deep (1958), I Want to Live! (1958), The Haunting (1963), The Andromeda Strain (1971), The Hindenburg (1975) and Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Robert Wise” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.