Robert Wise
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| Gender: | Male |
| Date of birth: | 10 September 1914 |
| Date of death: | 14 September 2005 |
| Roles: | Director |
Robert Wise (10 September 1914 – 14 September 2005; age 91) was the director of the 1979 film Star Trek: The Motion Picture. He received his sole Saturn Award nomination as Best Director from the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films for this film.
Wise was no stranger to science fiction when he came aboard Star Trek, having previously directed the classic 1951 film The Day the Earth Stood Still and 1971's The Andromeda Strain. Both films were referenced on Star Trek: Enterprise: scenes from the former film were seen in the episodes "The Catwalk" and "Cogenitor", while the latter was mentioned in "Observer Effect".
He won two Academy Awards for his work as director and producer on two classic musicals, one for West Side Story (1961, shared with Jerome Robbins) and another for The Sound of Music (1965). The latter film co-starred actor Christopher Plummer (Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country) and DS9 guest star Darleen Carr, who dubbed some of the children in their singing numbers. Wise was nominated for two additional Academy Awards for directing I Want to Live! (1958) and for producing The Sand Pebbles (1966), which he also directed.
Wise began his career as an uncredited sound effects editor at RKO Pictures, working on the musicals The Gay Divorcee and Top Hat and the dramas Of Human Bondage and The Informer. He moved on to become an editor for RKO, earning his first Academy Award nomination for his editing work on the classic 1941 RKO picture Citizen Kane for director/producer Orson Welles. The following year, he edited Welles' The Magnificent Andersons, on which he also served as an assistant director, shooting additional scenes for the film. Other films edited by Wise include the 1939 adaptation of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, the 1940 romantic comedy My Favorite Wife, and 1941's The Devil and Daniel Webster.
Wise's first film as director was the RKO was the 1944 horror film The Curse of the Cat People. Subsequent films he directed for RKO include The Body Snatcher (1945) and the classic film-noirs Born to Kill (1947, featuring Trek guests Lawrence Tierney and Elisha Cook, Jr.) and The Set-Up (1949). He then moved on to direct films for Twentieth Century Fox and later various other studios.
He went on to direct DS9 actor Rene Auberjonois in the 1975 disaster film, The Hindenburg. He also directed the films This Could Be the Night and Until They Sail, both released in 1957 and both starring TNG guest star Jean Simmons. His many other films include Executive Suite (1954, featuring Hamilton Camp), Helen of Troy (1956, with Robert Brown and Marc Lawrence), Run Silent Run Deep (1958, with Ken Lynch), Odds Against Tomorrow (1959, featuring Bill Zuckert), the 1968 horror classic The Haunting, Star! (1968, with Ian Abercrombie and Alan Oppenheimer), and Audrey Rose (1977, starring Norman Lloyd).
In 2001, over twenty years after directing Star trek: The Motion Picture, Wise oversaw the director's edition of the film. Robert Wise died four years later, just four days after his 91st birthday.
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