Herbert Kline(1909-1999)
- Director
- Writer
- Producer
Herbert Kline was a former editor of the magazine "New Theatre" and in
the 1930s become involved with the New York Film and Photo League,
where he was trained as a documentary director. He was one of the first
Americans to arrive in Spain in the 1930s during that country's civil
war, and filmed the documentary Heart of Spain (1937) about it. He continued making
documentaries, and occasionally contributing stories or screenplays to
Hollywood, until he turned to directing features in the late 1940s.
Although his film The Fighter (1952) was critically acclaimed, his feature output
was not generally successful, and it is as a documentary filmmaker that
he is best known.
