Herbert Wise

Herbert Wise

Herbert Wise (31 August 1924 – 5 August 2015) was an Austrian-born film and television producer and director. He 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. Wise also directed two films, an entry in the Edgar Wallace Mysteries second feature series, a thriller entitled To Have and to Hold (1963), and the film version of the television sit-com The Lovers (1973). He also directed the made-for-TV film Skokie (1981), and other made-for-TV films such as Breaking the Code (1996), adapted from the Hugh Whitemore play about Alan Turing.

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