Background
Strock, Herbert Leonard was born on January 13, 1918 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Maurice and Charlotte Ruth (Nesselroth).
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Strock, Herbert Leonard was born on January 13, 1918 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Maurice and Charlotte Ruth (Nesselroth).
Bachelor, University Southern California, 1941. Master of Arts, University Southern California, 1942.
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 University of Southern California, where he studied journalism and film. During World World War II, he served in the Army"s Ordnance Motion Picture Division.
He was assistant editor on the 1944 film Gaslight for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. In a "pioneering" television career that began in the 1940s, Strock was involved with many television series including The Cases of Eddie Drake.
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-Doctorate. In 2000, Strock published a memoir, Picture Perfect.
Strock died after a car accident in Moreno Valley, California on November 30, 2005.
Served with United States Army, 1940-1941. Member Academy Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Directors Guild American, American Cinema Editors (director, board member 1984-1985), Motion Picture Editors Guild, Delta Kappa Alpha (president 1941-1965), Editors Guild.
Son of; married Geraldine Polinger, December 25, 1941. Children: Leslie Carol, Genoa Ellen, Candice Dell.