Herbert Wise

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1924-08-31 (91 years old)

Deathday

2015-08-05

Place of Birth

Wien, Austria

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 Jul...

Production

1989

1996

1961

1974

1973

The Lovers!

as Director

1981

Skokie

as Director

1964

1979

Julius Caesar

as Director

1986

1963

1985

1980

Caleb Williams

as Director

1984

1990

Life After Life

as Director

1988

1973

Song at Twilight

as Director

1972

The Villa Maroc

as Director

1961

The Big Pride

as Director

1961

1970

1986

Ladies' Night

as Director

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