Herbert Wise
Directing
Born 1924-08-31
Died 2015-08-05
Wien, Austria
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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.
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Directing
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Play for Today
A Touch of Frost
American Playhouse
The Wednesday Play
Inspector Morse
BBC Play of the Month
Tales of the Unexpected
Theatre 625
ITV Playhouse
The Bill
Z-Cars
Van der Valk
Upstairs, Downstairs
Rumpole of the Bailey
Thirty-Minute Theatre
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
Where the Heart Is
Sunday-Night Play
Cadfael
I, Claudius
ITV Play of the Week
Churchill's People
Out of the Unknown
Festival
Dalgliesh
Drama 61-67
NET Playhouse
Man in a Suitcase
Softly Softly: Task Force
The 10th Kingdom
The BBC Television Shakespeare
Edgar Wallace Mysteries
Budgie
Armchair Mystery Theatre
Elizabeth R
Lytton's Diary
Unnatural Causes
Number 10
The Gamblers
Shades of Greene
The Company of Five
Covington Cross
Knight Errant Limited
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Class Act
Strange Interlude
The Indian Tales of Rudyard Kipling
The Plane Makers
Shadow Squad
The Woman in Black
Who's Afraid of Opera?
Death of an Expert Witness
Between the Wars
Saracen
Caleb Williams
Thirteen Against Fate
On Trial
Vienna 1900
So ’ne und so ’ne
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