Herbie Wise
Herbie directed all 13 episodes of “I Claudius” but a wide range of programmes, including “Z Cars” and other programmes for BBC and ITV. In 1979 he won a Bafta for his outstanding service to television.
Vernon Dyer
Herbie was directing a play I worked on in the 1970s. During blocking, the was a minor problem with the set. "Ah," says Herbie in his Austrian accent; "ve need a veg!". The FM looked perplexed – what did he mean? A carrot? A cauliflower? "No no," says Herbie; "a VOODEN veg! You must excuse my little Wiennese vim!"
Jack Gold
Robert Miles
Remember great times working with Jack Gold with Crew 10 on “Merchant of Venice” in 1980
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Roger Long
Jack was a lovely man.
I worked on “Arturo Ui” and “Stoppers Copper”, both exciting films. For “Arturo…”, Jack screened the original “Scarface” for the crew so we could comprehend the genre and we shot the last monochrome “Play for Today” on a specially tweaked Arri BL with mono Ilford stock.
The Valentines Day massacre was exceptional, we had real Thompsons from Baptys and they made a hell of a racket.
“Stoppers Copper” was shot in Cornwall and we had 3 choirs and 3 brass bands in attendance, it was about the china clay strike of 1913 and its brutal repression by the Glamorgan Riot Police in the clay pits. The wrap party was in St Austell cinema and all the locals turned up, we went for a dawn dip in the bay afterwards, great party, great Filming.
Jack’s son produced World Music CDs , including Ry Cooders “Bueno Vista” Cuban series.
Pat Heigham
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I had the pleasure of working with Jack, as Boom Op on “The Naked Civil Servant” (that’s my boom, and scrawny arms, in the publicity shot!) and later on a 35mm movie for TV: "Sakharov".
I fondly remember his obvious delight when we walked into the Hilton reception in Vienna for "Sakharov": "Gosh, Pat, I didn’t know it was going to be you!"
Very flattering.
Peter Goldring, Bernie Newnham, Barry Bonner
We did a Noel Coward play called "Sail Away", set on a cruise ship and directed by Jack Gold There was a circular table with a cut out into which Peter and camera were put to get shots of all the people seated around table.
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