FILM DIRECTOR

Robert Wise

1914 - 2005

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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). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Wise has received more than 1,415,593 page views. His biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). Robert Wise is the 215th most popular film director (down from 152nd in 2019), the 1,464th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,032nd in 2019) and the 56th most popular American Film Director.

Robert Wise is most famous for directing the film West Side Story.

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  • 60.18

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  • 51

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  • 4.65

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  • 4.44

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Robert Wise ranks 215 out of 2,041. Before him are Lina Wertmüller, Joe D'Amato, Thea von Harbou, Alan J. Pakula, Mahesh Bhatt, and Alfonso Cuarón. After him are Liliana Cavani, Carol Reed, Gojko Mitić, Barry Levinson, Guy Ritchie, and Robert Wiene.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Robert Wise ranks 52. Before him are Boris Christoff, Peter Townsend, Pavle, Serbian Patriarch, Norman Borlaug, Adolfo Bioy Casares, and William Westmoreland. After him are Alan Hodgkin, Renato Dulbecco, Shapour Bakhtiar, Akira Nozawa, James Van Allen, and Francisco da Costa Gomes. Among people deceased in 2005, Robert Wise ranks 51. Before him are Wim Duisenberg, Emmanuelle Arsan, Ibrahim Ferrer, Consuelo Velázquez, Victoria de los Ángeles, and William Westmoreland. After him are Akira Yoshizawa, Gnassingbé Eyadéma, Robert Sheckley, Peter Benenson, Hunter S. Thompson, and Richard Smalley.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robert Wise ranks 1,464 out of 20,380. Before him are Roger D. Kornberg (1947), James Garner (1928), Elliott Gould (1938), Walter Brennan (1894), Bruce Dern (1936), and Jeff Bennett (1962). After him are DJ Khaled (1975), Tom Skerritt (1933), Bubba Smith (1945), Dennis Quaid (1954), Joseph Cotten (1905), and James Patterson (1947).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In United States

Among film directors born in United States, Robert Wise ranks 56. Before him are Wes Anderson (1969), Raoul Walsh (1887), Richard Donner (1930), John G. Avildsen (1935), Vincente Minnelli (1903), and Alan J. Pakula (1928). After him are Barry Levinson (1942), Nicholas Ray (1911), Arthur Penn (1922), Gus Van Sant (1952), Edwin S. Porter (1870), and Michael Moore (1954).

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Filmography

The Sound of Music
Director
In the years before the Second World War, a tomboyish postulant at an Austrian abbey is hired as a governess in the home of a widowed naval captain with seven children, and brings a new love of life and music into the home.
Mar 29th 19657.726 / 10
West Side Story
Director
In the slums of the upper West Side of Manhattan, tensions are high as a gang of Polish-Americans compete against a gang of recently immigrated Puerto Ricans, but this doesn't stop two romantics from each gang falling in love.
Dec 13th 19617.3 / 10
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Director
When an unidentified alien destroys three powerful Klingon cruisers, Captain James T. Kirk returns to the newly transformed U.S.S. Enterprise to take command.
Dec 7th 19796.474 / 10