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Herman Hoffman is a Director, Scriptwriter, Associate Producer and Director of Photography born on 29 june 1909

Herman Hoffman

Herman Hoffman
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Birth 29 june 1909
Death 26 march 1989 (at 79 years)

Herman Hoffman est un réalisateur, scénariste et producteur américain né le 29 juin 1909 à Montgomery, Alabama (États-Unis), décédé le 26 mars 1989 à Laguna Hills (États-Unis).

Best films

The Hoaxters
The Hoaxters
(1952)
(Director)

Usually with

Dore Schary
Dore Schary
(4 films)
Wesley C. Miller
Wesley C. Miller
(4 films)
James Whitmore
James Whitmore
(2 films)
William J. Tuttle
William J. Tuttle
(3 films)
Barry Sullivan
Barry Sullivan
(1 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Herman Hoffman (12 films)

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Director

The Invisible Boy
The Invisible Boy (1957)
, 1h30
Directed by Herman Hoffman
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Adventure, Comic science fiction
Themes Comedy science fiction films, Robot films
Actors Richard Eyer, Philip Abbott, Diane Brewster, Harold J. Stone, Robert H. Harris, Than Wyenn
Rating53% 2.651282.651282.651282.651282.65128
The Invisible Boy is a mixture of lighthearted playfulness and menacing evil. As it begins, ten-year-old Timmie Merinoe (Eyer) seems only to want a playmate. After he is mysteriously invested with superior intelligence, he reassembles a robot that his father and other scientists had been ready to discard as unrepairable junk. No one pays much attention to the robot, named Robby, after Timmie gets it operating again, until Timmie's mother becomes angry when her son is taken aloft by a huge powered kite that Robby has built at Timmie's urging.
The Great American Pastime
The Great American Pastime (1956)

Directed by Herman Hoffman
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Sports films, Baseball films
Actors Tom Ewell, Ann Miller, Anne Francis, Dean Jones, Judson Pratt, Raymond Bailey
Rating56% 2.806892.806892.806892.806892.80689
In a small New York town called Willow Falls, a new manager is needed for the Panthers, a local Little League baseball team. Bruce Hallerton, a lawyer by trade, volunteers for the job, deciding it would be a way to spend more time with his son, Dennis.
Another Romance of Celluloid
Another Romance of Celluloid (1938)
, 11minutes
Directed by Herman Hoffman
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the film industry, Documentary films about cities
Actors Freddie Bartholomew, Frank Capra, William H. Daniels, Clark Gable, Betty Ross Clarke, Myrna Loy
Rating60% 3.046123.046123.046123.046123.04612
The film starts with a brief reprise of the previous film, before cutting to the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios in Culver City, California where assistant cameraman Bill Reilly picks up the film from the lab for Marie Antoinette (1938) which he passes on to cameraman William H. Daniels. Behind the scenes footage shows W.S. Van Dyke directing a scene between Norma Shearer and Robert Morley before the negative is taken to the lab to be developed, dried and polished by lab technician John M. Nickolaus. The test strips are then read and delivered to the print room for printing. A tram takes the viewer on a quick tour of the studio complete with behind the scenes footage of George B. Seitz directing Judge Hardy's Children (1938), Freddie Bartholomew training with elephants for the then unproduced Kim, Luise Rainer doing a costume test for The Toy Wife (1938), and candid footage of Clark Gable, Myrna Loy and Spencer Tracy. The film concludes with a montage from trailers for coming MGM pictures and footage of Louis B. Mayer, Frank Capra, Luise Rainer and Louise Tracy at the 10th Academy Awards banquet.

Scriptwriter

The Last Escape
The Last Escape (1970)
, 1h30
Directed by Walter Grauman
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Action
Themes Political films
Actors Stuart Whitman, John Collin, Martin Jarvis, Pinkas Braun, Margit Saad, Patrick Jordan
Roles Writer
Rating51% 2.5709552.5709552.5709552.5709552.570955
During the Second World War, Captain Lee Mitchell (Stuart Whitman) and a group of British commandos attempt to locate and kidnap the leading German rocket scientist Dr. Von Heinken (Pinkas Braun). Along the way they are chased by SS and Soviet forces who were also after him.
Guns of the Magnificent Seven
Guns of the Magnificent Seven (1969)
, 1h45
Directed by Paul Wendkos
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Western
Actors George Kennedy, James Whitmore, Monte Markham, Reni Santoni, Frank Silvera, George Rigaud
Rating56% 2.844962.844962.844962.844962.84496
Un jeune révolutionnaire mexicain va voir Chris : son chef Quintero a été fait prisonnier par les troupes du dictateur Porfirio Díaz. Il demande l'aide de Chris qui aussitôt se met en quête de six autres mercenaires …
Attack on the Iron Coast
Attack on the Iron Coast (1968)
, 1h29
Directed by Paul Wendkos
Origin USA
Genres War, Action
Themes Political films
Actors Lloyd Bridges, Andrew Keir, Sue Lloyd, Maurice Denham, Mark Eden, Walter Gotell
Rating55% 2.7539652.7539652.7539652.7539652.753965
Canadian Commando Major Jamie Wilson plans an audacious Combined Operations raid on the Axis held French port of Le Clare; if destroyed the Germans would be stripped of their only dry dock capable of servicing their large battleships. Wilson's plan code named Operation Mad Dog, is to ram a destroyer packed with tons of explosives into the outer gate of the dock, while his commandos cause havoc to the docks facilities and garrison and then detonate the explosive laden destroyer. Opposed to Wilson is Royal Navy Captain Owen Franklin, whose own son was killed on Wilson's disastrous last Dieppe Raid type raid on the French coast at Le Plagé.

Producer

Bad Day at Black Rock
Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
, 1h21
Directed by John Sturges
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime, Western
Themes Films about racism
Actors Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis, Dean Jagger, Walter Brennan, Ernest Borgnine
Roles Associate Producer
Rating76% 3.8462953.8462953.8462953.8462953.846295
In late 1945, one-armed John J. Macreedy (Spencer Tracy) gets off a passenger train at the isolated desert hamlet of Black Rock. It is the first time in 4 years that the train has stopped there. Macreedy is looking for a man named Komoko, but the few residents are inexplicably hostile. The young hotel desk clerk, Pete Wirth (John Ericson), claims he has no vacant rooms. Macreedy is threatened by Hector David (Lee Marvin). Later, Reno Smith (Robert Ryan) informs Macreedy that Komoko, a Japanese-American, was interned during World War II.
Take the High Ground!
Take the High Ground! (1953)
, 1h41
Directed by Richard Brooks, Jerry Thorpe
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Comedy
Themes Political films
Actors Richard Widmark, Karl Malden, Elaine Stewart, Russ Tamblyn, Carleton Carpenter, Steve Forrest
Roles Associate Producer
Rating59% 2.999682.999682.999682.999682.99968
In May 1953, a new group of Army recruits at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas encounter their drill sergeants, Sgt. Laverne Holt (Karl Malden) and the tough-as-nails Sgt. Thorne Ryan (Richard Widmark). After Ryan's caustic appraisal of the recruits, Holt vows to make soldiers out of them during their sixteen weeks of basic training. Ryan, a combat veteran who resents his stateside duty, repeatedly applies for a transfer back to the Korean front.

Cameraman

The Great American Pastime
The Great American Pastime (1956)

Directed by Herman Hoffman
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Sports films, Baseball films
Actors Tom Ewell, Ann Miller, Anne Francis, Dean Jones, Judson Pratt, Raymond Bailey
Roles Director of Photography
Rating56% 2.806892.806892.806892.806892.80689
In a small New York town called Willow Falls, a new manager is needed for the Panthers, a local Little League baseball team. Bruce Hallerton, a lawyer by trade, volunteers for the job, deciding it would be a way to spend more time with his son, Dennis.