Ted Post

Directing·Mar 31, 1918·Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Ted Post (born March 31, 1918 – August 20, 2013) was an American TV and film director. Born in Brooklyn, New York, he started his career in show business in 1938 working as an usher at Loew's Pitkin Theater. He abandoned plans to become an actor after training with Tamara Daykarhanova, and turned to directing summer theater. Ted Post taught Acting and Drama at New York's well-known High School of Performing Arts in 1950. He persuaded his friend, Sidney Lumet,to do likewise. Success in the theater led to work in television from the early 1950s. Post directed episodes of many well-known series including Gunsmoke, Perry Mason, Wagon Train, Rawhide, The Twilight Zone, Columbo and 178 episodes of Peyton Place. He has also directed TV movies (including the original Cagney and Lacey movie-of-the-week, and also feature films, including Beneath the Planet of the Apes, Go Tell the Spartans, and two Clint Eastwood films Hang 'Em High and Magnum Force. Post directed the 2001-2002 Festival of the Arts at Bel-Air's University of Judaism (now the American Jewish University). Description above from the Wikipedia article Ted Post, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Film	Credit
44 Faces2001 · Producer, Director	Producer, Director
The Human Shield1992 · Director	Director
Stagecoach1986 · Director	Director
Cagney and Lacey: The Pilot1981 · Director	Director
Nightkill1980 · Director	Director
Diary of a Teenage Hitchhiker1979 · Director	Director
The Girls in the Office1979 · Director	Director
Go Tell the Spartans1978 · Director	Director
Good Guys Wear Black1978 · Director	Director
Whiffs1975 · Director	Director
Magnum Force1973 · Director	Director
The Harrad Experiment1973 · Director	Director
The Baby1973 · Director	Director
Sandcastles1972 · Director	Director
The Bravos1972 · Director	Director
Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate1971 · Director	Director
Five Desperate Women1971 · Director	Director
Yuma1971 · Director	Director
Dr. Cook's Garden1971 · Director	Director
Night Slaves1970 · Director	Director
Beneath the Planet of the Apes1970 · Director	Director
Hang 'em High1968 · Director	Director
YYou'll Never See Me Again1959 · Director	Director
The Legend of Tom Dooley1959 · Director	Director
The Peacemaker1956 · Director	Director
WWhite Corridors1956 · Director	Director
TThe Great Merlini1951 · Director	Director
EmergencyDirector	Director