Herbert Wise Biography

Fast Facts

• Won a Directors Guild of America Award for movies for television for "Skokie" in 1982
• Served in the British Royal Air Force as a Met Air Observer during World War II
• Worked for Association British Corporation and Granada Television in the late 1950s before joining the BBC
• Started out as a stage actor before transition to directing, beginning his career in repertory theater
• Best known as the director of "I, Claudius," "Skokie" and 1989's "The Woman in Black․"