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Herbert Wise
Wien, Austria
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…
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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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2002
I, Claudius: A Television Epic
Movie Self
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2000
The 10th Kingdom
TV show Director
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1997
Noah's Ark
TV show Director
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1997
Where the Heart Is
TV show Director
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1996
Breaking the Code
Movie Director
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1994
Cadfael
TV show Director
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1994
Class Act
TV show Director
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1992
A Touch of Frost
TV show Director
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1992
Covington Cross
TV show Director
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1990
Life After Life
Movie Director
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1990
Making News
TV show Director
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1989
The Woman in Black
Movie Director
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1989
Saracen
TV show Director
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1988
Strange Interlude
TV show Director
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1987
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
TV show Director
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1987
Inspector Morse
TV show Director
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1986
The Christmas Tree
Movie Director
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1986
Ladies' Night
Movie Director
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1986
Unnatural Causes
TV show Director
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1986
Welcome Home, Bobby
Movie Director
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1985
Reunion at Fairborough
Movie Director
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1985
Lytton's Diary
TV show Director
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1984
The Bill
TV show Director
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1984
Pope John Paul II
Movie Director
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1983
Dalgliesh
TV show Director
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1983
Death of an Expert Witness
TV show Director
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1983
Number 10
TV show Director
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1982
American Playhouse
TV show Director
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1981
Skokie
Movie Director
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1980
Caleb Williams
Movie Director
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1980
Caleb Williams
TV show Director
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1979
Roald Dahl’s Tales of the Unexpected: The Landlady
Movie Director
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1979
Tales of the Unexpected
TV show Director
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1979
Julius Caesar
Movie Director
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1979
So ’ne und so ’ne
TV show Director
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1978
The BBC Television Shakespeare
TV show Director
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1977
The Norman Conquests
TV show Director
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1976
I, Claudius
TV show Director
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1976
A Story to Frighten the Children
Movie Director
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1975
Rumpole of the Bailey
TV show Director
