Robert Wise (1914-2005) was born in Winchester, Indiana, and joined RKO as an editor, cutting Citizen Kane and The Magnificent Ambersons for Orson Welles. As a director he moved between genres with unusual ease: the horror of The Body Snatcher, the boxing film The Set-Up, the science-fiction classic The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), the ghost story The Haunting (1963) and The Andromeda Strain (1971). He won Best Director Oscars for the musicals West Side Story (1961, shared with Jerome Robbins) and The Sound of Music (1965).
Filmography
- The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
- West Side Story (1961)
- The Haunting (1963)
- The Sound of Music (1965)
- The Andromeda Strain (1971)