Herbert L. Strock
Directing
- Born
- January 13, 1918 · Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Died
- November 30, 2005 (age 87)
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.
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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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Known for
Carnival of Souls
November 2, 1962
Donovan's Brain
September 30, 1953
The Magnetic Monster
February 18, 1953
I Was a Teenage Frankenstein
November 23, 1957
Shark
October 8, 1969
The Crawling Hand
September 4, 1963
How to Make a Monster
July 1, 1958
Gog
June 4, 1954
Blood of Dracula
November 1, 1957
The Glass Wall
March 19, 1953
Night Screams
September 1, 1987
Monstroid
July 11, 1980
Behind the camera29
- 1995You Snooze You Lose Editor
- 1991The Crawling Hand Director, Screenplay
- 1988Summer Seductions Editor
- 1987Night Screams Editor
- 1985Appointment with Fear Editor, Second Unit Director
- 1980Hurray for Betty Boop Screenplay, Editor
- 1980UFO Syndrome Writer
- 1980Witches' Brew Director, Editor
- 1980Monstroid Director, Screenplay
- 1979UFO Journals