Herbert L. Strock
Director
27
Movies
11
TV Shows
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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Behind the Camera
Maverick
Director
Cheyenne
Director
77 Sunset Strip
Director
Highway Patrol
Director
Sea Hunt
Director
Bronco
Director
Science Fiction Theatre
Director
I Led Three Lives
Director
Harbor Command
Director
The Man Called X
Director
El carnaval de las almas
Editor
El velo
Director
Night Screams
Editor
Psycho Sisters
Editor
Monstroid
Director, Guionista
Decisions! Decisions!
Productor
UFO Journals
Editor, Productor
Shark
Post Production Supervisor
The Glass Wall
Editor
I Was a Teenage Frankenstein
Director
The Magnetic Monster
Supervising Editor, Director
Witches' Brew
Director, Editor
Gog
Director, Editor
Battle Taxi
Director
The Crawling Hand
Director, Guionista, Editor
Summer Seductions
Editor
How to Make a Monster
Director
Blood of Dracula
Director
The Devil's Messenger
Director
Riders to the Stars
Associate Producer, Editor, Director