Herbert L. Strock
Personal Info
Known for
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1918-01-13
Day of Death
2005-11-30 (87 years old)
Place of Birth
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Herbert L. Strock
Biography
Herbert L. Strock (January 13, 1918 - November 30, 2005) was an American television producer and director, and a B-movie director of titles such as I Was a Teenage Frankenstein (1957), How to Make a Monster (1958) and The Crawling Hand (1963).
Strock was born in Boston, and moved with his family to Los Angeles when he was 13. By 17, while a student at Beverly Hills High School, Strock was director of gossip columnist Jimmy Fidler's Hollywood segments for Fox Movietone News. Strock graduated in 1941 from USC, where he studied journalism and film. During World War II, he served in the Army's Ordnance Motion Picture Division. He was assistant editor on the 1944 film Gaslight for MGM.
In a "pioneering" television career that began in the 1940s, Strock was involved with many television series including Highway Patrol, Sky King, Sea Hunt and Maverick.
Other directorial efforts included Blood of Dracula (a 1957 film in which a disturbed teenage girl at a boarding school becomes a vampire through hypnosis) and Ivan Tors' "Office of Scientific Investigation" trilogy, which included The Magnetic Monster, Riders to the Stars and Gog, shot in 3-D.
In 2000, Strock published a memoir, Picture Perfect.
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Crew
(1995)
You Snooze You Lose
Editor
(1991)
The Crawling Hand
Director, Screenplay
(1988)
Summer Seductions
Editor
(1987)
Night Screams
Editor
(1985)
Appointment with Fear
Editor, Second Unit Director
(1980)
Witches' Brew
Director, Editor
(1980)
Monstroid
Director, Screenplay
(1980)
UFO Syndrome
Writer
(1980)
Hurray for Betty Boop
Screenplay, Editor
(1979)
UFO Journals
Editor, Producer
(1974)
Psycho Sisters
Editor
(1973)
Brother on the Run
Director
(1973)
The Small Miracle
Producer
(1971)
Decisions! Decisions!
Producer
(1969)
Shark
Post Production Supervisor
(1963)
The Crawling Hand
Director, Screenplay, Editor
(1962)
Rider on a Dead Horse
Director
(1962)
Carnival of Souls
Editor
(1961)
The Devil's Messenger
Director
(1958)
How to Make a Monster
Director
(1958)
Destination Nightmare
Director
(1957)
I Was a Teenage Frankenstein
Director
(1957)
Blood of Dracula
Director
(1955)
Battle Taxi
Director
(1954)
Gog
Director, Editor
(1954)
Riders to the Stars
Associate Producer, Editor, Director
(1953)
Donovan's Brain
Editor, Production Assistant
(1953)
The Magnetic Monster
Supervising Editor, Director
(1953)
The Glass Wall
Editor