Herbert Hoover
Herbert Hoover was born on August 10, 1874 in West Branch, Iowa. His family were devout Quakers. At age eight, Hoover was orphaned and was sent to live with relatives. They showed him little affection, but taught him the importance of hard work and industry. In 1891, Hoover entered Stanford University's School of Engineering, graduating in 1895. Four years later, he married his wife, Lou Henry and they had two sons, Herbert Jr. and Allan. From an early age, Hoover showed a prodigious talent for engineering and was hired by the engineering firm Bewick and Moering, working in Australia and then in China. He was in China when the Boxer Rebellion of 1900 broke out and he coordinated the barricades of Americans trapped in China. At age forty, his engineering career was so successful that he was a millionaire. 1914 saw the outbreak of World War I in Europe. That was when he left his engineering career and entered public service. He organized a relief effort to feed starving Belgians, known as the Commission for the Relief of Belgium. When the U.S. entered the war in 1917, President Woodrow Wilson asked Hoover to organize the Food Administration, which encouraged Americans to cut down on food consumption to help the war effort. After the end of World War I in 1918, Hoover organized a massive relief effort to feed starving peoples in Europe, whose countries had been devastated by the war. From 1921 to 1929, Herbert Hoover served as Secretary of Commerce, under Presidents Harding and Coolidge, expanding the department and making it more active in working with business and labor. In 1928, he was the Republican candidate for President and easily defeated his opponent, the Democratic Candidate, Alfred E. Smith. Herbert Hoover was sworn in as President on March 4, 1929. Seven months after he entered office, the Stock Market crashed, ending the "Roaring Twenties" and the economic boom of that decade and ushered in the Great Depression. At first, Hoover was proactive in handling this economic crisis, having meetings with business leaders on how to weather the economic downturn, cutting taxes and increasing money for corporations and state governments. But none of this was effective in the teeth of the worst economic crisis in American history. He tried to calm the situation with statements like "Prosperity is just around the corner," but they were not effective. His dour demeanor and seemingly callous attitudes towards the millions of unemployed were what people saw in him, particularly when he refused to provide direct relief to the unemployed. Things came to a head in the summer of 1932 when the Bonus Expeditionary Force (BEF), an army of World War I veterans, marched to Washington demanding immediate payment of a bonus promised to them in 1945. But the veterans wanted their money now. They camped out along the Anacostia River and lobbied for their bonus. The House of Representatives approved immediate payment, but the Senate voted no. Hoover obtained $100,000 from Congress to buy the veterans train tickets home. Many veterans accepted the offer, but many stayed in Washington. At that point, the US army led by Gen. Douglas McArthur forcibly evicted the veterans from Washington, setting their camps on fire and forcing them out at gunpoint. In so doing, McArthur disobeyed Presidential orders, but Hoover took full responsibility for the eviction of the Bonus Marchers. In the 1932 election, Herbert Hoover was defeated in a landslide by Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt. After he left office in 1933, Hoover returned to California and was an unstinting critic of FDR. After the death of his wife in 1944, Hoover moved to New York City where he lived his last twenty years at the Waldorf Towers, remaining active in Republican Party politics. In 1946, President Harry Truman asked him to undertake yet another relief effort for the people of Europe; he and Truman became surprisingly good friends. In 1953, Hoover chaired a commission to increase efficiency in the Executive Branch of the Federal Government. He died on October 20, 1964 at age ninety.
Herbert J. Biberman
Herbert J. Biberman, the progressive producer, director and screenwriter now best known as one of the Hollywood Ten who were blacklisted by the American Film Industry for refusing to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), was born on March 4, 1900 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Educated at the University of Pennsylvania and Yale, Biberman entered his family's textile business after a journey to Europe. In 1928, Biberman joined the left-wing Theater Guild as an assistant stage manager, beginning his professional career in the arts. He married actress Gale Sondergaard in 1930. Biberman became a director with the Theater Guild, and entered the movie industry as a dialog director on Colmbia Pictures' Eight Bells (1935) in 1935. He made his first picture that year, directing One-Way Ticket (1935) for B.P. Schulberg Productions and Columbia. Ironically, it would be producer B.P. Schulberg's son Budd Schulberg, an ex-communist, who would be one of his chief accusers in the Hollywood show trials of the late 1940s. Biberman was arraigned before HUAC in 1947, where he was one of 19 unfriendly witnesses who refused to answer the Committee's inquiry into their political affiliations. The 19 eventually became the Hollywood Ten, as others of the 19 dropped away, including such luminaries as Bertolt Brecht, who left the U.S. for East Germany. Under the advice of lawyers with Communist Party affiliations, the Ten decided to adopt a common front and defy the committee by refusing to or deny the allegations that they were communists. In 1950, Biberman was fined and sentenced to six months in prison for contempt of Congress. Biberman's wife, the Oscar-winner Gale Sondergaard, was similarly accused and refused to testify. She also was blacklisted. In 1954, Biberman directed the independently produced, left-wing motion picture Salt of the Earth (1954), a fictionalized account of a miners; strike in Grant County, New Mexico. Working with other blacklisted movie professionals, including screenwriters Michael Wilson (who wrote the picture) and Paul Jarrico (who produced it), the film starred such progressive actors as Will Geer. It was made against tremendous odds, including opposition from Hollywood and the government. A chronicle of the terrible working conditions faced by miners in New Mexico, the film had the official backing of the local miner's union and employed real workers and their families. However, other unions, involved in a Cold War fight in the 1950s against communist-dominated domestic unions and Communist Party-affiliated union organizers (a fight that began in Hollywood immediately after World War II, when returning veterans fought back against trade guilds that had become infiltrated by organized crime during their war service), refused to show the film because Biberman was still blacklisted. It was screened only once, in New York, before being blackballed from exhibition in the U.S. for 11 years. Biberman released the film in Europe where it won awards in France and Czechoslovakia. In 1965, the film was finally released in the U.S. market. "Salt of the Earth" has been deemed "culturally significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. Biberman and Sondergaard had two children. They remained married until his death from bone cancer on June 30, 1971. Blacklisted for a quarter-of-a-century, Sondergaard finally found work in Hollywood after her husband's death.
Herbert J. Leder
Herbert J. Stern
Herbert J. Stern is known for Who Killed Malcolm X? (2019).
Herbert James Winterstern
Herbert James Winterstern (Jamie) completed his MFA and BA from USC film school in 2011. One semester into his Master's program, Jamie was awarded the Thomas B. Bush Memorial Scholarship for excellence in cinematography and directing. Jamie became one of the youngest to direct, edit and produce an NBC prime time drama series (Siberia). In 2015, he created SwipeMarket; a creative agency focused on bringing entertainment to Silicon Valley. He has directed and produced over 200 campaigns for brands including Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Intel. Aside from screenwriting and directing commercials, Jamie contributes his passions to the Alzheimer's Association in efforts to raise awareness for research and funding.
Herbert Jefferson Jr.
Herbert Jefferson Jr. was born on September 28, 1946 in Sandersville, Georgia, USA. He is an actor, known for Battlestar Galactica (1978), Knight Rider (1982) and Apollo 13 (1995).
Herbert Kenwith
Herbert Kenwith, born in New Jersey, started his career as an actor and appeared in several Broadway productions. His last was as "Bellboy" in "I Remember Mama" starring Mady Christians, produced by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, from 1944-46 (he was also Assistant Stage Manager). His first stage credit for producer / director was for "Night Must Fall," starring May Whitty. As Broadway's youngest producer, Kenwith--with Paul Feigay, Oliver Smith and David Cummings--produced the 1948 Gertrude Berg play "Me and Molly," (26 Feb-10 July 1948), starring Berg as Molly Goldberg. The production was voted "one of the season's ten best plays". After Broadway Kenwith produced and directed all 65 productions for Princeton University's McCarter Theatre for six very successful summers. The productions featured such leads as Lucille Ball, Mae West, Charlton Heston, Shelley Winters, Cesar Romero, Walter Matthau, Maureen Stapleton, Eve Arden, Constance Bennett, Joan Bennett, Paul Muni, Miriam Hopkins, Gloria Swanson, Jeanette MacDonald, Zazu Pitts and Nancy Reagan (known at the time as Nancy Davis). In the infant medium of New York television, CBS hired Kenwith as an associate director. Within seven weeks he was assigned to direct the daytime soap opera Valiant Lady (1953), followed by Lamp Unto My Feet (1948), Suspicion (1957), The Investigator (1958), The Polly Bergen Show (1957) and Jonathan Winters in his weekly television comedy show. For his first three years at NBC Television, Kenwith directed the series The Doctors (1963) starring Ellen Burstyn. Picking up directing assignments on network television specials, he directed such stars as Danny Kaye, Billy Eckstine, Sidney Poitier and even Rose Kennedy. Within three weeks of his arrival in Hollywood Kenwith was directing episodes of Death Valley Days (1952), The Name of the Game (1968), Marcus Welby, M.D. (1969), Star Trek (1966) and Daktari (1966), along with television pilots for all the networks. Among the performers he worked with while at the Princeton University McCarter Theatre was Lucille Ball, who tapped Kenwith as a director for her television series Here's Lucy (1968), NBC and 20th Century-Fox revived a five-day drama series based upon the night-time drama Peyton Place (1964), retitled Return to Peyton Place (1972). NBC contracted Kenwith to alternate daily directing assignments until the series was canceled in 1975. He directed the first episode of the CBS daytime drama The Young and the Restless (1973), followed by alternating directorial assignments on "Return to Peyton Place". Norman Lear signed Kenwith to a seven-year contract as producer and director at Lear's factory of television shows, and he helmed such shows as "Different Strokes" (1972)_, _"The Facts of Life" (1974)_, Good Times (1974), One Day at a Time (1975) and the night-time comedy-soap opera All That Glitters (1977). Numerous prime-time sitcoms Kenwith directed included NBC's Sanford and Son (1972) featuring Redd Foxx, Demond Wilson and LaWanda Page, and the short-lived NBC series Joe's World (1979) starring K Callan. His long association and friendship with Mae West resulted in his directing her theatrical stage projects. Although of the same physical appearance and height as Napoléon Bonaparte. Kenwith--a non-smoker and teetotaler--was known for his charming personality, a tremendous sense of humor and a friendly disposition that put any performer at ease during a guest appearance on a television or theatrical production. Kenwith, friendly with his television technical stage crew, could request and receive immediate response because of his affable attitude. His realm of expertise was respected and admired by his entire theatrical crew. Two featured characters in "All That Glitters" were Eileen Brennan as Ma Packer and her lazy son, Sonny Packer, played by Tim Thomerson. Sonny's role of wannabe Elvis Presley impersonator--always strumming his guitar, practicing swinging hips and rock movements--was diligently encouraged by Ma Packer. Their principal abode was a run-down farm shack. In preparation for the first introduction of the outlandish pair, Kenwith and Brennan requested the littered straw and dirt studio set floor be inhabited with a small pot-bellied pig and a dozen chickens. The first day of videotaping Ma and Sonny Packer's introduction in the series, Brennan picked up one of the hens, holding the chicken in her arms like a pet cat, petting and soothing the clucking hen while performing her character's motherly role. For the entire week she carried the same hen in her arms, with the chickens pecking seeds from the straw on the ramshackle floor. The following week the producers decided to cancel the livestock! Arriving early on set for rehearsal, Brennan and Kenworth confronted the dull-witted producers--"Where were the chickens?"--only to find out that the critters were taken out in order to save money on a chicken wrangler and his flock of hens! The cast and crew waited for an hour for the wrangler and his flock to arrive. Thereafter, Brennan and her chicken co-star with the flock of hens were featured until Ma moved uptown, with Sonny becoming a full-fledged rock star on a local television station talent show, landing a gig at a local Western bar and stardom! Ma Packer, now a sexy glamorous theatrical agent, became a music-rock group phenomena. Kenwith lived in a large four-bedroom home above the famous Hollywood Sunset Strip, with a southwest view of the Los Angeles cityscape. The home had at one time belonged to the permanent host for Princess Grace Kelly and her husband Prince Rainier of Monaco on their visits to Southern California, as they never stayed in a hotel. After retiring from the television industry, Kenwith downsized, relocating to a condo-penthouse in Beverly Hills, in Century City. He died at age 90 on January 30, 2008, in Los Angeles of complications from prostate cancer.
Herbert Kluever
Herbert Kluever is known for Das Amulett des Todes (1975), Frühreife Betthäschen (1972) and Liebe zwischen Tür und Angel - Vertreterinnen-Report (1973).
Herbert Knaup
Herbert Knaup was born on March 23, 1956 in Sonthofen, Germany. He is an actor, known for Lola rennt (1998), Die Sieger (1994) and Das kleine Gespenst (2013). He has been married to Christiane Knaup since 2006.
Herbert L. Strock
Boston-born Herbert Strock's introduction to the movie business was as director of the Fox Newsreel crew, visiting Hollywood stars in their homes. After serving with the Ordnance Motion Picture Division, he found employment as an editor at MGM and later moved into the infant medium of TV, producing and directing The Cases of Eddie Drake (1952), the first-ever motion picture film to become a network series. Strock made the transition to feature film directing in 1953, when (in the midst of production) he took over direction of the SF thriller The Magnetic Monster (1953) from Curt Siodmak. Today he operates his own post-production facilities.