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.

Productor y director de cine y televisión inglés nacido en Viena, Austria. Nacido como Herbert Weisz, comenzó su carrera como director en la Shrewsbury Repertory Company en 1950. Inició su prolífica carrera en televisión en 1956, dirigiendo multitud de adaptaciones, siendo la más famosa la que hizo para la BBC de Yo, Claudio (1976), basada en la novela de Robert Graves. El ciclo de la obra de Alan Ayckbourn, Las conquistas de Norman en 1977, algunos de los telefilmes de Cadfael y tres episodios del Inspector Morse, fueron adaptaciones igualmente notables. Wise únicamente dirigió dos películas para la gran pantalla, la primera una introspección en los misterios del escritor Edgar Wallace titulada Para tener y sostenerse (To Have And To Hold, 1963), y la versión cinematográfica de la sitcom televisiva Los amantes (The Lovers, 1973). Estuvo casado con la actriz Fiona Walker.