By 17, while a student at Beverly Hills High School, Strock was director of gossip columnist Jimmy Fidler's Hollywood segments for Fox Movietone News.
Highway Patrol, Sea Hunt, Science Fiction Theatre and I Led 3 Lives for Ziv Television Programs, and Sky King and The Veil.
Other directorial efforts included I Was a Teenage Frankenstein, Blood of Dracula and How to Make a Monster for producer Herman Cohen and Ivan Tors' "Office of Scientific Investigation" trilogy, which included The Magnetic Monster, Riders to the Stars and Gog, which was shot in 3-D, as well as the Korean War film Battle Taxi.
Strock directed several Warner Bros. Television series such as The Alaskans, Bronco, Maverick, Sugarfoot, Colt .45, 77 Sunset Strip and Cheyenne.
He continued with the B pictures The Crawling Hand, The Devil's Messenger which was an edited television pilot and Rider on a Dead Horse.