Mark Herman

Mark Herman
Born	Mark Herman 1954 (age 62–63) Bridlington, East Riding of Yorkshire, England
Occupation	Film producer, film director, screenwriter
Years active	1987–

Mark Herman (born 1954) is an English film director and screenwriter best known for writing and directing the 2008 film The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas.

Herman was born in Bridlington, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. He was educated at Bridlington School, Bridlington, Woodleigh School, North Yorkshire and thereafter at Sedbergh School. He was late entering the film industry. Aged 27 he was drawing cartoons at art college before becoming involved in drama when he began studying film at Leeds Polytechnic, now Leeds Metropolitan University. He then trained as an animator at the National Film and Television School.

He moved away from animation and continued to study directing. He also wrote lyrics under the name "M. Henry Herman" for The Christians on the Christians' first album, The Christians, with Henry Priestman, a schoolmate from Woodleigh School, North Yorkshire.

Herman’s 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.

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