Robert Wise

Robert Wise
Wise at the premiere of Air America, 1990
Born	Robert Earl Wise (1914-09-10)September 10, 1914 Winchester, Indiana, United States
Died	September 14, 2005(2005-09-14) (aged 91) Westwood, Los Angeles, California, United States
Cause of death	Heart attack
Occupation	Film director, film producer, film editor
Years active	1934–2000
Spouse(s)	Patricia Doyle (m. 1942–75) Millicent Franklin (m. 1977–2005)
Children	1

Robert Earl Wise (September 10, 1914 – September 14, 2005) was an American film director, producer and editor. He won Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Picture for both 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).

Wise was the president of the Directors Guild of America from 1971 to 1975 and the president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences from 1984 through 1987.