LOS ANGELES - 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 falling ill and being rushed to the University of California, Los Angeles, Medical Center, family friend and longtime entertainment agent Lawrence Mirisch told The Associated Press.

Mirisch said Wise had appeared in good health when he celebrated his 91st birthday Saturday.

I've been ill and not working the past few days, and in that time I watched both West Side Story and The Day The Earth Stood Still, both with bonus features including interviews with Wise. I have at least one more film he directed, too: Star Trek: The Motion Picture. He finally got to go back in 2000 and do a "director's cut" of it.

I've never seen The Sound of Music. I know, I suck.