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Robert Earl Wise 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.
Birth Name
Robert Earl Wise
Born
Thursday, 10 September 1914
Died
Wednesday, 14 September 2005