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English film director and screenwriter

Mark Herman (born 1954) is a British 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. His father worked as a bacon importer. At the end of the first year he had to choose between illustration, printmaking, graphics or film for the final 2 years. He applied to the illustration, printmaking, and graphics parts of the course, however he wasn't accepted into any of them, so had no choice but to pick film. It was there in the film part of his graphic design degree, that he started doing animation. Nick Park was making A Grand Day Out at the time. Herman was a schoolfriend of musician Henry Priestman, who like Herman is a Hull City A. F. C. fan. In February 1983 Priestman as Harry Amber and Herman as Mark Black, together as Amber and Black, along with the Hull City players themselves, released the song "The Tigers are Back". He made his directorial debut on his final graduation film See You At Wembley, Frankie Walsh (1986), which he also wrote. It won the Foreign Student Film award at the Student Film Awards. He then spent the next 2 years writing for the BBC. It was their first Hull City song since 1983.

Herman’s first feature length project was Blame It on the Bellboy (1992), a comedy of mistaken identity starring Dudley Moore and Bryan Brown. It failed at the box office, and with critics. Herman is a fellow of Film and Television Production at York St John University, York, England, and has received Honorary Doctorates from Hull University and Leeds Beckett University. Jessica Winter in The Rough Guide to Film criticises Herman's fondness for "cloying" close ups and "contrived melodramatic showdown[s]", saying of the film Purely Belter that it "probably didn't create many new converts to Herman's partly gritty, party feel good socialist realist strain of filmmaking".

Student Film Awards 1987 Foreign Student Film winner for See You At Wembley, Frankie Walsh.