Biography

Ben Herschfield was primarily a talent agent/manager who represented players, writers, and directors in the 1930s, but he was also a writer and the producer of a series of outdoor shorts -- The Old Prospector (1938) being the first one -- using a process of color-film called Cinemachrome.

He was married to actress Rita La Roy, who directed The Old Prospector (1938) and also wrote the screen play as an adaptation of a poem wrote by Bruce Kiskaddon. The short (released by RKO) featured Cy Kendall as the narrator and Si Jenks played the title role.

Herschfield's parents were Sarah Samuels and Colonel Reuben Norman Hirschfield of Kansas City, Missouri, where Hirschfield attended Central High School. In 1935, in addition to his film work, Hirschfield was a Los Angeles City Commissioner, and also the Commander of the Disabled American Veteran in L. A.

Death date not known.
- IMDb mini biography by: Les Adams