Early Life
Herbert was born Charles Herbert Saperstein in Culver City, California. According to Herbert, his career began when he was discovered by an agent: "I just happened to be riding on a bus while on a shopping trip with my mother one day and a gentleman who was a talent agent in Hollywood, named Cosmo Morgan, saw me talking and must have thought I was cute or something. He gave me his card, which I immediately tried to give to the bus driver! That’s basically how it started."
Blue-eyed and freckle-faced, his first job was at age four on the television series, Half Pint Panel (1952). The Long, Long Trailer (1954) could have been his first movie, just after appearing in the stage production of On Borrowed Time at the Rancho Theatre. Auditioning with some forty other kids, they picked Herbert only to cut him out of the movie.
This period was highlighted with a celebrated performance at age eight for his role as a blind child on an episode of Science Fiction Theater (1956). Airing December 22, 1956, "The Miracle Hour" is about a man who never gives up hope that his fiance's blind six-year-old son will not have to spend the holidays in darkness. Herbert starred with Dick Foran and Jean Byron.
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