Highest rated movie: Brassed Off (1996)
Lowest rated movie: Blame It on the Bellboy (1992)
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Movies from this director have generally received positive reviews and hold an average rating of 64%.
Brassed Off is Mark Herman's highest rated movie, with a score of 73% based on 224 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Mark Herman is Blame It on the Bellboy, with a score of 49% based on 30 reviews.
Mark Herman (born 1954 in Bridlington, East Riding of Yorkshire, England) is an English film director and screenwriter notable for writing & directing the 2008 film The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas.
Mark Herman was educated at Woodleigh School, North Yorkshire. 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 the Metropolitan University of Leeds. He then trained as an animator at the National Film School in London.
He moved away from animation and continued to study directing. He also wrote lyrics for The Christians.
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. This film gave Michael Caine the opportunity for his best performance to date.
Purely Belter (2000), adapted by Herman from Jonathan Tulloch's novel The Season Ticket, is the story of two teenage boys trying to get together enough money for a couple of Newcastle United F.C. season tickets.
Hope Springs (2003), is an adaptation of New Cardiff.
His most recent work is the adaptation of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. It was produced by David Heyman and stars David Thewlis, Vera Farmiga, Sheila Hancock and Rupert Friend. Herman directed and adapted the work.
Mark Herman is a fellow of Film and Television Production, York St John University, York, England.
Mark Herman has directed films starring Adam Fogerty, Ewan McGregor, Jim Carter and Philip Jackson.
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