Colorado-born Herk Harvey majored in theater at Kansas University, directing and acting in stage productions and later returning to the school in a teaching capacity. He broke into the film business as an actor in some of the movies being made by Centron Corporation of Lawrence, Kansas, an educational and industrial film production company for which he subsequently went to work as a director. In 1961 he took a working vacation from Centron to try his hand at feature filmmaking, producing, directing and co-starring in the creepy horror film "Carnival of Souls", shot in Kansas and Utah.
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.
Herk Died in 1996 of pancreatic cancer
Herk as one of the zombies in Carnival of Souls
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Originally Posted by Jack-O-Lantern
Actually I prefer B&W but sometimes its fun to see what they look like colorized!