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Herk Harvey
Herk Harvey created 1 movies in the Horror, Mystery, Music genres.
Herk Harvey got succeed with average imdb rating 7.1.
Was the director of over four-hundred educational, industrial and documentary films made by Centron Productions in Lawrence, Kansas. Was born with the name of Harold, but the name he went by was Herk, which he used on all his work.
Conceived the original idea of his Carnival of Souls after seeing the abandoned Saltaire pavillion/park, located in Utah, and coincidentally the site became the setting for the film version of "Carnival of Souls".
Received a lifetime achievement award from a film institute in Kansas in 1989.
... Often collaborated with John Clifford.
The Centron studio, the company he worked for in Lawrence, is now home to the University of Kansas' film department.
Interviewed in Tom Weaver's "Science Fiction Stars and Horror Heroes" (McFarland & Co., 2006).
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