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Herbert L. Strock
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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 (1…
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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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Herbert L. Strock, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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1995
You Snooze You Lose
Movie Editor
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1991
The Crawling Hand
Movie Screenplay
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1988
Summer Seductions
Movie Editor
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1987
Night Screams
Movie Editor
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1985
Appointment with Fear
Movie Editor
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1980
Hurray for Betty Boop
Movie Screenplay
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1980
UFO Syndrome
Movie Writer
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1980
Witches' Brew
Movie Director
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1980
Monstroid
Movie Director
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1979
UFO Journals
Movie Producer
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1974
Psycho Sisters
Movie Editor
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1973
Brother on the Run
Movie Director
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1973
The Small Miracle
Movie Producer
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1971
Decisions! Decisions!
Movie Producer
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1969
Shark
Movie Post Production Supervisor
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1963
The Crawling Hand
Movie Director
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1962
Carnival of Souls
Movie Editor
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1962
The Devil's Messenger
Movie Director
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1962
Rider on a Dead Horse
Movie Director
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1958
77 Sunset Strip
TV show Director
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1958
Bronco
TV show Director
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1958
How to Make a Monster
Movie Director
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1958
Destination Nightmare
Movie Director
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1958
Sea Hunt
TV show Director
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1958
The Veil
TV show Director
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1957
I Was a Teenage Frankenstein
Movie Director
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1957
Blood of Dracula
Movie Director
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1957
Harbor Command
TV show Director
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1957
Maverick
TV show Director
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1956
The Man Called X
TV show Director
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1955
Highway Patrol
TV show Director
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1955
Cheyenne
TV show Director
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1955
Science Fiction Theatre
TV show Director
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1955
Battle Taxi
Movie Director
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1954
Gog
Movie Director
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1954
Riders to the Stars
Movie Associate Producer
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1953
Donovan's Brain
Movie Editor
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1953
The Glass Wall
Movie Editor
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1953
The Magnetic Monster
Movie Supervising Editor
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1953
Your Favorite Story
TV show Director
