William Witney
- Directing
- May 15, 1915 · Lawton, Oklahoma, USA
- March 17, 2002
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. William Nuelsen Witney (15 May 1915 – 17 March 2002) was an American film and television director. He is best remembered for the movie serials he co-directed with John English for Republic Pictures such as Daredevils of the Red Circle, Zorro's Fighting Legion and Drums of Fu Manchu. He directed many Westerns during his career, and is credited with devising the modern system of filming movie fight sequences in a series of carefully choreographed shots, which he patterned after the musical sequences of American director Busby Berkeley.[1] Prolific and pugnacious, Witney began directing while still in his 20s, and continued until 1982. Quentin Tarantino singles out Witney as one of his favorite directors, particularly for The Golden Stallion (1949), a Roy Rogers vehicle.[2] Witney also directed Master of the World (1961) starring Vincent Price and Charles Bronson. Description above from the Wikipedia article William Witney, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Known for
Filmography
- Cliffhangers: Adventures from the Thrill Factory · Self
- Roy Rogers, King of the Cowboys · Self
- The Republic Pictures Story · Self
- Quell and Co. · Sheriff, Director
- Western von gestern · Director
- Darktown Strutters · Director
- Kodiak · Director, Writer
- The Cowboys · Director
- I Escaped from Devil's Island · Director
- The High Chaparral · Director
- Hondo · Director
- Tarzan's Jungle Rebellion · Director
- 40 Guns to Apache Pass · Director
- Tarzan · Director
- Spy Smasher Returns · Director
- Bonanza: Ride the Wind · Director
- Dr. Satan's Robot · Director
- The Wild Wild West · Director
- Laredo · Director
- Arizona Raiders · Director
- The Girls on the Beach · Director
- Branded · Director
- Apache Rifles · Director
- Daniel Boone · Director
- Marnie · Second Unit Director
- The Wide Country · Director
- The Alfred Hitchcock Hour · Director
- The Virginian · Director
- Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation · Second Unit Director
- Frontier Circus · Director
- The Cat Burglar · Director
- Master of the World · Director
- The Long Rope · Director
- The Secret of the Purple Reef · Director
- The Tall Man · Director
- Coronado 9 · Director
- Valley of the Redwoods · Director
- Overland Trail · Director
- Laramie · Director
- Riverboat · Director
- Bonanza · Director
- Paratroop Command · Director
- Frontier Doctor · Director
- The Bonnie Parker Story · Director
- Young and Wild · Director
- Juvenile Jungle · Director
- The Cool and the Crazy · Director
- Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer · Director
- Panama Sal · Director
- Zorro · Director
- State Trooper · Director
- Dr. Fu Manchu · Director
- A Strange Adventure · Director
- Stranger at My Door · Director
- The Fighting Chance · Director
- Headline Hunters · Director
- City of Shadows · Director
- Santa Fe Passage · Director
- The Outcast · Director
- Stories of the Century · Director
- Shadows of Tombstone · Director
- Down Laredo Way · Director
- Iron Mountain Trail · Director
- Old Overland Trail · Director
- South Pacific Trail · Director
- The WAC from Walla Walla · Director
- Old Oklahoma Plains · Director
- Border Saddlemates · Director
- The Last Musketeer · Director
- Colorado Sundown · Director
- The Wild Blue Yonder · Gen. Curtis E. LeMay
- Pals of the Golden West · Director
- South of Caliente · Director
- In Old Amarillo · Director
- Heart of the Rockies · Director
- Spoilers of the Plains · Director
- Trail of Robin Hood · Director
- North of the Great Divide · Director
- Sunset in the West · Director
- Trigger, Jr. · Director