Brief Obit: Herbert L. Strock
by Andre Soares
Film and TV producer and director Herbert L. Strock, 87, died of heart failure after a car accident in Riverside, Calif., on Nov. 30. Strock’s TV work include the series Highway Patrol, Sea Hunt, and 77 Sunset Strip. Among his feature films, almost invariably B-horror flicks, are I Was a Teenage Frankenstein (1957), with Gary Conway in the title role and Whit Bissell (Lt. Gen. Heywood Kirk of the 1960s TV series The Time Tunnel) as Prof. Frankenstein; How to Make a Monster (1958), with Conway reprising his Monster role while joined by Gary Clarke as a teen werewolf; The Crawling Hand (1963), about a dead astronaut’s hand with a penchant for strangling the living; and the relatively prestigious Gog (1954), shot in 3-D, and starring Richard Egan, Constance Dowling, and former Bette Davis leading man Herbert Marshall (The Letter, The Little Foxes).
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