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Robert Wise
Dead
Born: 9/10/1914 in Winchester, Indiana, USADied: 9/14/2005
Age: 91
Cause of death: heart attack
Full name: Robert Earl Wise
Noted For: film director; The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), West Side Story (1961), The Sound of Music (1965), The Hindenburg (1975), Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979). Won Academy Awards for West Side Story (1961) and The Sound of Music (Best Director, 1966).
