
Directing
Herbert Hirschman
Born — Died
1914-04-13 — 1985-07-03
Place of birth
New York City, New York, USA
Known for
Directing
Credits
13 titles
Herbert Hirschman (April 13, 1914 – July 3, 1985)[1] was an American television producer and director. He produced shows as Perry Mason, Espionage, The Wackiest Ship in the Army, and the fourth season of The Twilight Zone.
Known for
6.5New Yorkers Skip Donahue and Harry Monroe have no jobs and no prospects, so they decide to flee the city and find work elsewhere, landing jobs wearing woodpecker costumes to promote the opening of a bank. When their feathery costumes are stolen and used in a bank robbery, they no longer have to worry about employment — they're sent to prison.
Stir Crazy
1980
5.9A police detective's investigation of a prostitute's murder points to his best friend.
They Call Me Mister Tibbs!
1970
5.9A young street-tough-turned-boxer struggles to reach the top while finding his romance with an attractive TV reporter is complicated by an incestuous relationship with his mother.
Flesh & Blood
1979
6.4The Amazing Howard Hughes is a 1977 television movie about American aviation pioneer and filmmaker Howard Hughes, based on the book by Hughes' business partner Noah Dietrich. The film starred Tommy Lee Jones, Ed Flanders, and Tovah Feldshuh.
The Amazing Howard Hughes
1977
5.2An all-black inner city school has to become an integrated school. Few dozen white kids are transfered there, but the black students are aggressively opposed to this. The school then approaches a tough black teacher for help.
Halls of Anger
1970
6.8A government courier is caught in a deadly cover-up after discovering that his murdered sister was not only the mistress of a U.S. president, but also a Soviet spy.
The President's Mistress
1978
Film credits
Behind the camera
5.9A police detective's investigation of a prostitute's murder points to his best friend.
They Call Me Mister Tibbs!
1970
5.9A young street-tough-turned-boxer struggles to reach the top while finding his romance with an attractive TV reporter is complicated by an incestuous relationship with his mother.
Flesh & Blood
1979
6.4The Amazing Howard Hughes is a 1977 television movie about American aviation pioneer and filmmaker Howard Hughes, based on the book by Hughes' business partner Noah Dietrich. The film starred Tommy Lee Jones, Ed Flanders, and Tovah Feldshuh.
The Amazing Howard Hughes
1977
5.2An all-black inner city school has to become an integrated school. Few dozen white kids are transfered there, but the black students are aggressively opposed to this. The school then approaches a tough black teacher for help.
Halls of Anger
1970
6.8A government courier is caught in a deadly cover-up after discovering that his murdered sister was not only the mistress of a U.S. president, but also a Soviet spy.
The President's Mistress
1978
7.3A lonely old man (Martin Balsam) finds his life beginning to have some meaning when he helps a teenager living in a rehab center.
Miles To Go Before I Sleep
1975
7.0An exploration of the myths surrounding the colorful Western heroine and both the legendary Wild Bill Hickock, with whom she had an unorthodox courtship, and the flamboyant Buffalo Bill Cody, between the 1870s and the turn of the century.
Calamity Jane
1984
NRA housewife, increasingly disenchanted with her homemaker role, looks for new meaning in her life and organizes a discussion group, changing the lives of her six closest friends.
Tell Me Where It Hurts
1974
10.0The son in a close-knit family of Wisconsin dairy farmers decides to get married and move out of the house, just as his mother discovers she has incurable leukemia and only a short time to live.
Things in Their Season
1974
Married journalists who run a small town newspaper expose corruption and cultism at a once respected rehab center.
Attack on Fear
1984
A pilot movie dealing with the day-to-day workings of God herself, here threatening to destroy Las Vegas if six righteous people cannot be found there in seven days, and it's all up to an eager-to-please young angel, a frustrated clerk-typist in the heavenly music department, to try to hold off the devastation while disguised as a mortal.
Human Feelings
1978
6.8This Western is a pilot for the series "The Iron Horse," in which a dapper frontier gambler wins a railroad line in a poker game and has his hands full holding it from the clutches of various conniving bad guys.
Scalplock
1966
