Herbert Wise

Herbert Wise 31 August 1924 5 August 2015 was an Austrianborn 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 195255 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 Ayckbourns 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 madeforTV 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 19701971 television sitcom The Lovers titled The Lovers 1973 He was married twice firstly to the actress Moira Redmond 19631972 and after he and Redmond divorced to actress Fiona Walker in 19881 Wise and Fiona Walker had two children Susannah Wise and Charlie WalkerWise