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

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, 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

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in a 1970 production with

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in the lead. Wise began his television career in 1956 and directed adaptations of '' I, Claudius'' (1976) and

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's play cycle '' The Norman Conquests'' (1977), the BBC Television Shakespeare production of ''

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'' (1979), '' Tales of the Unexpected'', '' The 10th Kingdom'', ''

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'' (1989), and episodes of '' Cadfael'' and '' Inspector Morse''. He also directed several episodes of the

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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

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. Wise directed two theatrically released films. One was an entry in the ''

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'' second feature series titled ''To Have and to Hold'' (1963) and the other was a film version of the 1970-1971 television sit-com ''

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'' 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. Wise and Fiona Walker had two children;

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and Charlie Walker-Wise.

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* 1924 births 2015 deaths British film directors Jewish emigrants from Austria to the United Kingdom after the Anschluss Mass media people from Vienna {{tv-director-stub