Herbert L. Strock

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Herbert L Strock January 13 1918 November 30 2005 was an American television producer and director and a Bmovie 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 Fidlers 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 Armys 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 3D In 2000 Strock published a memoir Picture Perfect Description above from the Wikipedia article Herbert L Strock licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia