Herbert Wise

Career timeline

1. 1924 · Born

   Born in Wien, Austria

2. 1951 · Screen debut

   Hallmark Hall of Fame (TV)

3. 1961 · First production

   Drama 61-67 (TV)

4. 1962 · Breakthrough

   Z-Cars (TV)

5. 2000 · Latest release

   The 10th Kingdom (TV)

6. 2015 · Died

   August 5, 2015

Career in numbers

6 1950s

17 1960s

19 1970s

13 1980s

4 1990s

1 2000s

• Drama46
• Mystery9
• Tv Movie7
• Crime6
• Comedy6
• History4

Highest-rated title Inspector Morse 1987 7.9 Most popular title The Bill 1984 6.9

Frequent collaborators

People who appear most often alongside Herbert Wise in our catalogue.

Peter Hammond

13 titles together

Christopher Morahan

11 titles together

John Gorrie

11 titles together

Waris Hussein

9 titles together

John Mortimer

7 titles together

Ted Kotcheff

5 titles together

Michael Apted

4 titles together

John Mackenzie

4 titles together

Simon Gray

4 titles together

Sandy Johnson

3 titles together

1. 1976 I, Claudius 7.8 TV

1. 2000 The 10th Kingdom 7.6 TV
2. 1997 Noah's Ark TV
3. 1997 Where the Heart Is TV
4. 1996 Breaking the Code Movie
5. 1992 A Touch of Frost 7.6 TV
6. 1989 The Woman in Black 6.9 Movie
7. 1988 Strange Interlude TV
8. 1987 The Ruth Rendell Mysteries TV
9. 1987 Inspector Morse 7.9 TV
10. 1986 Ladies' Night Movie
11. 1986 Unnatural Causes TV
12. 1984 The Bill 6.9 TV
13. 1984 Pope John Paul II Movie
14. 1983 Dalgliesh TV
15. 1983 Death of an Expert Witness TV
16. 1982 American Playhouse TV
17. 1981 Skokie Movie
18. 1980 Caleb Williams TV
19. 1979 Roald Dahl’s Tales of the Unexpected: The Landlady Movie
20. 1979 Tales of the Unexpected 6.8 TV
21. 1979 Julius Caesar Movie
22. 1979 So ’ne und so ’ne TV
23. 1978 The BBC Television Shakespeare TV
24. 1977 The Norman Conquests TV
25. 1976 I, Claudius 7.8 TV
26. 1975 Shades of Greene TV
27. 1974 Churchill's People TV
28. 1973 Vienna 1900 TV
29. 1973 Helen: A Woman of Today TV
30. 1973 Between the Wars TV
31. 1972 Van der Valk TV
32. 1972 Who's Afraid of Opera? TV
33. 1972 Man of Straw TV
34. 1971 Upstairs, Downstairs 7.6 TV
35. 1971 Budgie TV
36. 1971 Elizabeth R 7.5 TV
37. 1970 Play for Today TV
38. 1969 Plays of Today TV
39. 1969 ITV Saturday Night Theatre TV
40. 1968 The Company of Five TV
41. 1967 Man in a Suitcase TV
42. 1966 Thirteen Against Fate TV
43. 1965 Thirty-Minute Theatre TV
44. 1965 Out of the Unknown TV
45. 1965 Six Shades of Black TV
46. 1964 The Wednesday Play TV
47. 1964 The Indian Tales of Rudyard Kipling TV
48. 1964 Theatre 625 TV
49. 1963 Festival TV
50. 1963 For King and Country: Out There Movie
51. 1962 Z-Cars TV
52. 1961 Drama 61-67 TV
53. 1960 Sunday-Night Play TV
54. 1960 Armchair Mystery Theatre TV
55. 1959 Knight Errant Limited TV
56. 1959 Skyport TV
57. 1959 Edgar Wallace Mysteries TV
58. 1956 Armchair Theatre TV
59. 1955 ITV Play of the Week TV
60. 1951 Hallmark Hall of Fame TV

1. 1961 Drama 61-67 TV

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