Herbert L. Strock

Redacteur, Regisseur, Producer, Schrijver

13 januari 1918 — 30 november 2005 (87 years)
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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Movies & Shows on Plex

  • Carnival of Souls
    Carnival of Souls1962
  • Bonanza
    Bonanza2 seasons
  • Dragnet (1951)
    Dragnet (1951)8 seasons
  • Cheyenne
    Cheyenne7 seasons
  • The Crawling Hand
    The Crawling Hand1963
  • How to Make a Monster
    How to Make a Monster1958
  • Blood of Dracula
    Blood of Dracula1957
  • I Was a Teenage Frankenstein
    I Was a Teenage Frankenstein1957
  • Monstroid
    Monstroid1980
  • The Cisco Kid
    The Cisco Kid2 seasons
  • The Veil
    The Veil

Known For

  • The Crawling Hand
    The Crawling Hand1963
  • Gog
    Gog1954
  • How to Make a Monster
    How to Make a Monster1958
  • Highway Patrol (1955)
    Highway Patrol (1955)5 seasons
  • Blood of Dracula
    Blood of Dracula1957
  • I Was a Teenage Frankenstein
    I Was a Teenage Frankenstein1957
  • Donovan's Brain
    Donovan's Brain1953
  • Dragnet (1951)
    Dragnet (1951)8 seasons
  • Boris Karloff's The Veil
    Boris Karloff's The Veil12 episodes
  • The Devil's Messenger
    The Devil's Messenger1962
  • The Magnetic Monster
    The Magnetic Monster1953
  • Riders to the Stars
    Riders to the Stars1954
  • Monstroid
    Monstroid1980
  • Sea Hunt
    Sea Hunt4 seasons
  • Bronco
    Bronco4 seasons
  • Bonanza
    Bonanza14 seasons
  • The Cisco Kid
    The Cisco Kid6 seasons
  • Maverick
    Maverick5 seasons
  • Witches' Brew
    Witches' Brew1980

Cinematografie

1978
1973
1958
1955
1954
Riders to the Stars · as Associate Producer
1954
1953
1951
Dragnet (1951) · as Associate ProducerOp Plex
1950

1980
Betty Boop for President · as Screenplay
1980
Monstroid · as ScreenplayOp Plex
1973
1963
The Crawling Hand · as ScreenplayOp Plex
1953

1957
Not of This Earth · as Self - Writer Of Prologue

1985
Appointment with Fear · as Second Unit Director
1957
Harbor Command · as Written By
1953
Donovan's Brain · as Production Assistant
1953
The Magnetic Monster · as Supervising Editor