Herman Hoffman Filmography

Occupation:: Director, Screenwriter
Biography:: Filmmaker and screenwriter Herman Hoffman worked with MGM from 1934 through the early '70s, getting his start making promos for features films. Hoffman made his feature film directorial bow with The MGM Story. In addition to features, Hoffman was also noted for his documentaries, particularly such...Read More

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The Last Escape

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Stuart Whitman, John Collin, Pinkas Braun, Martin Jarvis, Günther Neutze

Synopsis: Captain Lee Mitchell (Stuart Whitman) is the American officer who joins the British in an attempt to smuggle scientist Von Heinken (Pinkas Braun) out of Germany. The group also assists refugees trying to escape the wrath of the Nazis. Mitchell must quickly mold an inexperienced unit of British Read More

1970
Guns of the Magnificent Seven

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: George Kennedy, James Whitmore, Monte Markham, Bernie Casey, Joe Don Baker

Synopsis: Chris (George Kennedy) is the lone survivor of the original seven gunmen who is recruited to help in a peasant struggle in Mexico. Colonel Diego (Michael Ansara)is the ruthless military commandant of a Mexican prison holding the leader of the revolt. With knife expert Levi Morgon (James Whitmore) Read More

1969
Attack on the Iron Coast

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Andrew Keir, Sue Lloyd, Mark Eden, Maurice Denham

Synopsis: Major James Wilson (Lloyd Bridges) must lead his troops across the English channel in the D-day invasion of Normandy. He trains his regulars for the invasion knowing that many, if not all, may never survive the assault. Wilson is plagued by memories of previous missions that turned out to be Read More

1968
Bonanza: A Real Nice, Friendly Little Town

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Louise Latham, Mark Slade

Synopsis: A ricocheting bullet catches Little Joe Cartwright in his-er-nether regions. Seeking answers to his brother's non-fatal but certainly embarrassing injury, Hoss tries to communicate with world-weady female gunslinger Willie Mae Rikeman (Louise Latham) and her two uncontrollable sons Judd (Mark Read More

1966
Combat!: The Squad

Crew: Director

Synopsis: No one in King Company is in the mood to whistle "Dixie" when Pvt. Moseby Lovelace (Jonathan Bolt), an unreconstructed Southerner, joins the platoon. Saunders (Vic Morrow) is particularly peeved that Lovelace is constantly complaining about "Yankee" fighting methods: Why, he asks, does everyone Read More

1963
The Untouchables: The Nick Moses Story

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Nick Moses (Harry Guardino) breaks the code of the Mob by bumping off another gangster without permission. Grimly, Frank Nitti (Bruce Gordon) informs Moses that the only way he can save himself is to assassinate Federal agent Elliot Ness--and he is given a very limited space of time to pull off Read More

1961
The Invisible Boy

Crew: Director

Actors: Richard Eyer, Philip Abbott, Diane Brewster, Harold J. Stone, Robert Harris

Synopsis: Though Richard Eyer and Philip Abbott get top billing, the real star of The Invisible Boy is Robby the Robot of Forbidden Planet fame. Based on a short story by Edmund Cooper (which, incidentally, contained no robots!), the film finds electronics genius Dr. Merrinoe (Abbott) developing a huge Read More

1957
The Great American Pastime

Crew: Director

Actors: Tom Ewell, Anne Francis, Ann Miller, Dean Jones, Rudy Lee

Synopsis: Tom Ewell plays a busy attorney who wishes to be closer to his son. To do this, he becomes manager of the boy's little league team, much to the dismay of his wife (Anne Francis), who can't stand baseball. Ewell finds that he must contend with pushy and ambitious parents who hope to live their own Read More

1956
It's a Dog's Life

Crew: Director

Actors: Jeff Richards, Jarma Lewis, Edmund Gwenn, Dean Jagger, Willard Sage

Synopsis: The narrator of Herman Hoffman's film is a bull terrier named Wildfire, who rises from life in the slums to status as a pampered pet of a wealthy home. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

1955
The Battle of Gettysburg

Crew: Director

1955
The Ash Can Fleet

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Fred Zinnemann directed this biographical short subject about David Bushnell (James Bush), who revolutionized naval warfare and ocean exploration with his invention of the submarine, which Bushnell introduced during the American revolutionary war. The Ash Can Fleet was one of eighteen shorts Read More

1939