CTVA Profile - Director - Herschel Daugherty
Profile - Director - Herschel Daugherty
Compiled for ctva by
Sal Crisanti
<crisanti52@netscape.net>
FILM DIRECTORS ARE CHOSEN FOR PARTICULAR INDIVIDUAL
SPECIALTIES,
SUCH AS:
ACTION, COMDEDY, CRIME, MUSICAL, WESTERN
AND OTHER TYPE OF HUMAN SITUATIONS.
A DIRECTOR WITH MANY SKILLS IS A BUSY HELMSMEN, GOING FROM ONE PROJECT TO
ANOTHER. HERSCHEL DAUGHERTY WAS THAT TYPE OF INDIVIDUAL.
HIS CAREER IN FILM BEGAN IN 1942, AS A DIALOGUE DIRECTOR FOR WARNER BROTHERS STUDIOS.
DURING HIS STINT AT WARNER'S, DAUGHERTY WORKED ON SOME OF HOLLYWOOD'S MOST
BEST REMEMBERED CLASSIC FILMS:
"EDGE OF DARKNESS"(1942)(HIS FIRST),
"PASSAGE TO MARSEILLE(1944),
MILDRED PIERCE"(1945),
"POSSESSED'(1947),
"ON MOONLIGHT BAY"(1951),
JUST TO NAME A FEW. HERSCHEL DAUGHERTY WAS ALSO FORTUNATE TO WORK
WITH SOME OF THE FINEST FILM DIRECTORS IN THE BUSINESS.
NAMES SUCH AS:
LEWIS MILESTONE, JEAN NEGULESCO, MICHAEL CURTIZ, CURTIS BERNHARDT
AND ROY DEL RUTH.
BY 1952, HERSCHEL DAUGHERTY WAS READY TO TRY HIS SKILLS AS A FULL-TIME
DIRECTOR. WHAT BETTER PLACE TO START THAN TELEVISION, WITH SHORT SHOOTING
SCHEDULES, QUICK SET-UP'S AND SMALL BUDGETS. HERSCHEL LIKED TELEVISION AND
THE CHALLANGE IT BROUGHT. DAUGHERTY DIDN'T REALLY SPECIALIZE. HE WORKED ON
A VARIETY OF TV SERIES WITH DIFFERENT SUBJECT MATTER. JUST READING HIS
CREDITS WILL ATTEST TO THAT. SOME OF THEM ARE AS FOLLOWS:
"BIFF BAKER, USA"(1952-1953),
"CITY DETECTIVE"(1953-1956),
"CRUSADER"(1955-1956),
"SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE"(1955-1957),
"ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS"(1955-1965),
"WAGON TRAIN"(1957-1965),
"THE DEPUTY"(1959-1961),
"BONANZA"(1959-1973),
"THRILLER"(1960-1962),
"CHECKMATE"(1960-1962),
"MY THREE SONS"(1960-1972),
"STAR TREK"(1966-1969),
"THE RAT PATROL"(1966-1968),
"MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE"(1966-1973),
"CIMARRON STRIP"(1967-1968),
"HAWAII FIVE-O"(1968-1980),
"BANACEK"(1972-1974),
"HEC RAMSEY"(1972-1974),
"POLICE WOMAN"(1974-1978).
BESIDES REGULAR SERIES WORK, HERSCHEL DAUGHERTY ALSO HELMED A COUPLE OF
FILM FEATURES AND SOME MADE FOR TV MOVIES. AFTER ALL IS SAID AND DONE,
HERSCHEL DAUGHERTY WILL BE BEST REMEMBERED AS ONE TELEVISION'S MOST
CONSISTENT AND PROLIFIC DIRECTORS.