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Herbert L. Strock

Director · Born 1918-01-13 · Boston, Massachusetts, USA

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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, Pictur…

Directed

  1. Maverick (1957) — Director
  2. The Magnetic Monster (1953) — Director
  3. I Was a Teenage Frankenstein (1957) — Director
  4. The Crawling Hand (1963) — Director
  5. Gog (1954) — Director
  6. Blood of Dracula (1957) — Director
  7. How to Make a Monster (1958) — Director
  8. 77 Sunset Strip (1958) — Director
  9. Cheyenne (1955) — Director
  10. Monstroid (1980) — Director
  11. Sea Hunt (1958) — Director
  12. The Devil's Messenger (1962) — Director
  13. Riders to the Stars (1954) — Director
  14. Highway Patrol (1955) — Director
  15. Battle Taxi (1955) — Director
  16. Witches' Brew (1980) — Director
  17. Science Fiction Theatre (1955) — Director
  18. Bronco (1958) — Director
  19. Rider on a Dead Horse (1962) — Director
  20. The Veil (1958) — Director
  21. Brother on the Run (1973) — Director
  22. Destination Nightmare (1958) — Director
  23. I Led Three Lives (1953) — Director
  24. Harbor Command (1957) — Director
  25. Your Favorite Story (1953) — Director
  26. The Man Called X (1956) — Director
  27. The Crawling Hand (1991) — Director