Template:Realworld{| class="wiki-sidebar" |- | colspan="2" style="text-align: center"|Director Robert Wise |- | colspan="2" style="text-align: center"|File:Wise.jpg |- | class="odd"|Image:|| class="even"|Robert Wise on the set of ST:TMP |- | class="odd"|Gender:|| class="even"|Male |- | class="odd"|Born:|| class="even"|10 September 1914 |- | class="odd"|Died:|| class="even"|14 September 2005 |} Robert Wise (10 September 1914 – 14 September 2005; age 91) was the director of the 1979 film Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
He had previously won two Academy Awards for his work as director 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. His first Academy Award, however, came for his work as a film editor on the incomparable 1941 classic Citizen Kane.
Wise was certainly no stranger to science fiction when he came aboard Star Trek, having previously directed the 1951 classic film The Day the Earth Stood Still and 1971's The Andromeda Strain.
He had previously directed DS9 actor Rene Auberjonois in the 1975 disaster film, The Hindenburg. He also directed Born to Kill (1947) featuring Trek guests Lawrence Tierney and Elisha Cook, Jr., Helen of Troy (1956) which featured TOS guest star Robert Brown, and the films This Could Be the Night and Until They Sail (both 1957), both starring TNG guest star Jean Simmons.
Robert Wise died on Wednesday, September 14, 2005. He was 91 years old.
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