Ted Post

Biography

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, fu…

Directed

1. Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970) — Director
2. Magnum Force (1973) — Director
3. The Twilight Zone (1959) — Director
4. Hang 'em High (1968) — Director
5. Columbo (1971) — Director
6. Perry Mason (1957) — Director
7. Combat! (1962) — Director
8. Gunsmoke (1955) — Director
9. Good Guys Wear Black (1978) — Director
10. The Baby (1973) — Director
11. Go Tell the Spartans (1978) — Director
12. The Rifleman (1958) — Director
13. Rawhide (1959) — Director
14. Baretta (1975) — Director
15. The Virginian (1962) — Director
16. Stagecoach (1986) — Director
17. Route 66 (1960) — Director
18. Thriller (1960) — Director
19. Yuma (1971) — Director
20. Laramie (1959) — Director
21. The Harrad Experiment (1973) — Director
22. Nightkill (1980) — Director
23. The Human Shield (1992) — Director
24. Night Slaves (1970) — Director
25. Studio One (1948) — Director
26. Beyond Westworld (1980) — Director
27. The Westerner (1960) — Director
28. The Defenders (1961) — Director
29. Rich Man, Poor Man - Book II (1976) — Director
30. The 20th Century Fox Hour (1955) — Director
31. Peyton Place (1964) — Director
32. Tombstone Territory (1957) — Director
33. Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre (1956) — Director
34. The Detectives (1959) — Director
35. Five Desperate Women (1971) — Director
36. Dr. Cook's Garden (1971) — Director
37. Whiffs (1975) — Director
38. Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate (1971) — Director
39. The Tall Man (1960) — Director
40. Ark II (1976) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Dirty Harry: The Original (2001) — Self - Filmmaker
2. Clint Eastwood: The Man from Malpaso (1994) — Self
3. Grace Kelly: The American Princess (1987) — Self
4. Burt Lancaster: Daring to Reach (1996) — Self
5. The Hero Cop: Yesterday and Today (1973) — Self
6. From Alpha to Omega: Building a Sequel (2008) — Self