Known For
Directing
Born
Aug 31, 1924
Died
Aug 05, 2015
Place of Birth
Wien, Austria
Credits
102 titles
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
Filmography
I, Claudius: A Television Epic
Self
The 10th Kingdom
Director
Noah's Ark
Director
Where the Heart Is
Director
Breaking the Code
Director
Cadfael
Director
Class Act
Director
A Touch of Frost
Director
Covington Cross
Director
Life After Life
Director
Making News
Director
The Woman in Black
Director
Saracen
Director
Strange Interlude
Director
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
Director
Inspector Morse
Director
The Christmas Tree
Director
Ladies' Night
Director
Unnatural Causes
Director
Welcome Home, Bobby
Director
Reunion at Fairborough
Director
Lytton's Diary
Director
The Bill
Director
Pope John Paul II
Director
Dalgliesh
Director
Death of an Expert Witness
Director
Number 10
Director
American Playhouse
Director
Skokie
Director
Caleb Williams
Director
Caleb Williams
Director
Roald Dahl’s Tales of the Unexpected: The Landlady
Director
Tales of the Unexpected
Director
Julius Caesar
Director
So ’ne und so ’ne
Director
The BBC Television Shakespeare
Director
The Norman Conquests
Director
I, Claudius
Director
A Story to Frighten the Children
Director
Rumpole of the Bailey
Director
The Secret Agent
Director
Shades of Greene
Director
Churchill's People
Director
The Gathering Storm
Director
Masquerade
Director
Vienna 1900
Director
Helen: A Woman of Today
Director
Between the Wars
Director
Song at Twilight
Director
The Lovers!
Director