Jeffrey Tuchman, the man who directed “The Man From Hope,” the promotional film that introduced Bill Clinton to America at the 1992 Democratic National Convention, died on Sept. 2 in Los Angeles. He was 62.

The cause was pancreatic cancer, his brother, Peter, said.

Mr. Tuchman had a fruitful career as a documentary filmmaker. His other directing credits include “White House: Inside With the President’s Photographer” (1994); “Mavericks, Miracles and Medicine” (on which he was also executive producer and writer), a four-part series seen on the History Channel in 2003 that explored medical history; and “Save Our History: Voices of Civil Rights,” a 2006 Emmy and Peabody Award-winning oral history, also for the History Channel.

But it was the Clinton film that kick-started his career. Ten hours of footage and 1,000 pages of interview transcripts were edited into about 14 minutes of video that was broadcast on network television from the convention in New York City that July and distributed during the fall campaign to potential supporters.

Produced by Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, the creator of the television show “Designing Women” and a longtime Clinton friend, the film avoided politics and policy and instead presented the relatively unknown Arkansas governor as the embodiment of small-town America. (Not acknowledged was that Clinton advisers had recruited Cristophe of Beverly Hills to give the candidate a $250 haircut for the production.)