| Biography | Mark Herman (born 1954) is an English film director and screenwriter born in Bridlington, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. Aged 27 he studied Drama at Leeds Polytechnic, now Leeds Metropolitan University. He then trained as an animator at the National Film and Television School.
Hermans first feature-length project was Blame It on the Bellboy (1992), a comedy of mistaken identity starring Dudley Moore and Bryan Brown. Next, Herman wrote and directed the critically acclaimed Brassed Off (1996), following the members of a colliery brass band, still struggling to survive a decade after the miners' strike.
In Little Voice (1998), adapted by Herman from Jim Cartwright's play The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, Jane Horrocks reprises the title role of a harried young woman whose only escape lies in the memory of her father and in imitating the singers he admired.
He is best known for writing and directing the 2008 film The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas.
Herman is a fellow of Film and Television Production, York St John University, York, England. |