Robert Wise, who won four Oscars as producer and director of the classic 1960s musicals West Side Story and The Sound of Music, has died. He was 91. The movie director Robert Wise has died. During his ...

Hollywood director and producer Robert Wise--who died last week in Los Angeles at age 91--is best remembered for two films, "West Side Story" and "The Sound of Music," that garnered him four Oscars.

For someone who began as a callow Hoosier lad of 19 running fresh film from the RKO studio lab to the editing room as a ” film porter ” in 1933, Robert Wise spliced together quite an amazing career.

Robert Wise, a four-time Academy Award winner whose epic 65-year career ranged from editing Orson Welles' "Citizen Kane" to directing the quintessential 1960s musical "The Sound of Music" to… By ...

DGA President Jack Shea announced today that former Directors Guild President Robert Wise will be the recipient of the DGA Presidents Award at the 53rd Annual DGA Awards dinner on March 10 at the ...

2005-09-16 04:00:00 PDT Los Angeles-- Robert Wise, the highly honored film editor-turned-director who won four Academy Awards for producing and directing "West Side Story" and "The Sound of Music," ...

Robert Wise, who won four Oscars as producer and director of the classic 1960s musicals “West Side Story” and “The Sound of Music,” has died. He was 91. Wise died Wednesday of heart failure after ...

LOS ANGELES – During his half-century career, film director Robert Wise was nominated for seven Academy Awards, had hits in a variety of genres and worked with Orson Welles on “Citizen Kane.” But he ...

The late director Robert Wise tackled a gamut of genres in his movie-making career. His first director’s credit in 1944 was for the horror movie “The Curse of the Cat People.” Later, he directed and ...

At age nineteen, Robert Wise parlayed his early interest in film into a job in the RKO sound department. Later, he worked as an editor on films like The Hunchback of Notre Dame, starring Charles ...

Robert Wise, the Oscar-winning director-producer of “West Side Story” and “The Sound of Music”–and the master of many movie genres in a career that spanned over half a century–died Wednesday of heart ...