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Herbert Wise

Known For
Directing

Known Credits
1

Gender
Male

Birthday
August 31, 1924 (101 years old)

Place of Birth
Wien, Austria

Herbert Wise

Biography

Herbert Wise (31 August 1924 – 5 August 2015) was an Austrian-born film and television producer and director.

Herbert Wise was born as Herbert Weisz in Vienna, Austria, and began his career as a director at Shrewsbury Repertory Company in 1950. He was at Hull Rep and then as Director of Productions at Dundee Rep (1952–55). He directed So what about Love in the West End at the Criterion Theatre in a 1970 production with Sheila Hancock in the lead.

Wise began his television career in 1956 and directed adaptations of I, Claudius (1976) and Alan Ayckbourn's play cycle The Norman Conquests (1977), the BBC Television Shakespeare production of Julius Caesar (1979), Tales of the Unexpected, The 10th Kingdom, The Woman in Black (1989), and episodes of Cadfael and Inspector Morse. He also directed several episodes of the Thames Television series Rumpole of the Bailey. He directed several made-for-TV films, including Skokie (1981) and Breaking the Code (1996), the latter adapted from the Hugh Whitemore play about Alan Turing.

Wise directed two theatrically released films: an entry in the Edgar Wallace Mysteries second feature series titled To Have and to Hold (1963), and the film version of the 1970–1971 television sit-com The Lovers titled The Lovers! (1973).

He was married twice, firstly to the actress Moira Redmond (1963–1972) and, after he and Redmond divorced, to actress Fiona Walker in 1988.[1] Wise and Fiona Walker had two children; Susannah Wise and Charlie Walker-Wise.

Known For

Directing

2000The 10th Kingdom...Director
1997Noah's Ark...Director
1997Where the Heart Is...Director
1996Breaking the Code...Director
1994Cadfael...Director
1994Class Act...Director
1992A Touch of Frost...Director
1992Covington Cross...Director
1990Life After Life...Director
1990Making News...Director
1989The Woman in Black...Director
1989Saracen...Director
1988Strange Interlude...Director
1987The Ruth Rendell Mysteries...Director
1987Inspector Morse...Director
1986The Christmas Tree...Director
1986Ladies' Night...Director
1986Unnatural Causes...Director
1986Welcome Home, Bobby...Director
1985Reunion at Fairborough...Director
1985Lytton's Diary...Director
1984The Bill...Director
1984Pope John Paul II...Director
1983Death of an Expert Witness...Director
1983Dalgliesh...Director
1983Number 10...Director
1982American Playhouse...Director
1981Skokie...Director
1980Caleb Williams...Director
1980Caleb Williams...Director
1979Roald Dahl’s Tales of the Unexpected: The Landlady...Director
1979Tales of the Unexpected...Director
1979Julius Caesar...Director
1979So ’ne und so ’ne...Director
1978The BBC Television Shakespeare...Director
1977The Norman Conquests...Director
1976I, Claudius...Director
1976A Story to Frighten the Children...Director
1975Rumpole of the Bailey...Director
1975The Secret Agent...Director
1975Shades of Greene...Director
1974Churchill's People...Director
1974The Gathering Storm...Director
1974Masquerade...Director
1973Vienna 1900...Director
1973Helen: A Woman of Today...Director
1973Between the Wars...Director
1973Song at Twilight...Director
1973The Lovers!...Director
1972Mrs. Warren's Profession...Director
1972Van der Valk...Director
1972Who's Afraid of Opera?...Director
1972The Villa Maroc...Director
1972Man of Straw...Director
1971Upstairs, Downstairs...Director
1971Stage 2...Director
1971Budgie...Director
1971Elizabeth R...Director
1970Play for Today...Director
1970The Salesman...Director
1970The Italian Table...Director
1969Softly Softly: Task Force...Director
1969Plays of Today...Director
1969The Exiles...Director
1969ITV Saturday Night Theatre...Director
1968The Company of Five...Director
1968The Drummer and the Bloke...Director
1967Man in a Suitcase...Director
1967The Gamblers...Director
1967ITV Playhouse...Director
1966The Fastest Draw...Director
1966NET Playhouse...Director
1966Thirteen Against Fate...Director
1965The Siege of Manchester...Director
1965BBC Play of the Month...Director
1965Thirty-Minute Theatre...Director
1965Out of the Unknown...Director
1965Six Shades of Black...Director
1964Thursday Theatre...Director
1964The Wednesday Play...Director
1964The Indian Tales of Rudyard Kipling...Director
1964A Fear of Strangers...Director
1964Theatre 625...Director
1963Festival...Director
1963First Night...Director
1963For King and Country: Out There...Director
1963To Have and to Hold...Director
1963The Plane Makers...Director
1962Z-Cars...Director
1961The Day of the Fox...Director
1961The Big Pride...Director
1961Drama 61-67...Director
1960Sunday-Night Play...Director
1960On Trial...Director
1960Armchair Mystery Theatre...Director
1959Knight Errant Limited...Director
1959Skyport...Director
1959Edgar Wallace Mysteries...Director
1957Shadow Squad...Director
1956Armchair Theatre...Director
1955ITV Play of the Week...Director
1951Hallmark Hall of Fame...Director

Creator

1976I, Claudius...Creator

Production

1970The Salesman...Producer
1961The Day of the Fox...Producer
1961Drama 61-67...Producer

Acting

2002I, Claudius: A Television Epicas Self