Background
Herman was born in Bridlington, East Riding of Yorkshire, England.
( Film version of Jim Cartwright's acclaimed play starrin...)
Film version of Jim Cartwright's acclaimed play starring Jane Horrocks (who played Little Voice in the stage play) and Michael Caine Jane Horrocks (Little Voice) takes centre stage as the 14-year-old Lancashire girl who can only relate to the world by mimicking the musical hits of pre-50s divas in her bedroom; a refuge from her widowed mother's sniping, boozing and whoring. When Ray Say (Michael Caine), a tacky night-club impresario recognises LV's talent her mother soon hears the sound of pounds, shilling and pence. But as LV finds herself coerced into the glitterball world of Ray and Mr Boo the fragile shell of her sanity begins to crack.
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Herman was born in Bridlington, East Riding of Yorkshire, England.
He was educated at Bridlington School, Bridlington and Woodleigh School, North Yorkshire.
He was late entering the film industry. Aged 27 he was drawing cartoons at art college before becoming involved in drama when he began studying film at Leeds Polytechnic, now Leeds Metropolitan University. He then trained as an animator at the National Film and Television School.
He moved away from animation and continued to study directing.
Herman’s first feature-length project was, a comedy of mistaken identity starring Dudley Moore and Bryan Brown. In, adapted by Herman from Jim Cartwright"s play The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, Jane Horrocks reprises the title role of a harried young woman whose only escape lies in the memory of her father and in imitating the singers he admired.
, adapted by Herman from Jonathan Tulloch"s novel The Season Ticket, is the story of two teenage boys trying to get together enough money for a couple of Newcastle United F.C. season tickets., is an adaptation of New Cardiff.
His most recent work is the adaptation of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas.
lieutenant was produced by David Heyman and stars David Thewlis, Vera Farmiga, Sheila Hancock and Rupert Friend. Herman directed and adapted the work. Herman is a fellow of Film and Television Production, York Street John University, York, England.
( Film version of Jim Cartwright's acclaimed play starrin...)
Jessica Winter in The Rough Guide to Film criticises Herman"s fondness for "cloying" close-ups and "contrived melodramatic showdown", saying of the film Purely Belter, that it "probably didn"t create many new converts to Herman"s partly gritty, party feel-good socialist realist strain of filmmaking.".
Next, Herman wrote and directed the critically acclaimed Brassed Office (1996), following the members of a colliery brass band, still struggling to survive a decade after the miners" strike.