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Ted Post (born March 31, 1918 β 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).
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Filmography
all 79
Director 74
TV Shows 49
Movies 30
self 5
Dirty Harry: The Original (2001)
4 Faces (2001)
Burt Lancaster: Daring to Reach (1996)
Clint Eastwood: The Man from Malpaso (1994)
The Human Shield (1992)
Grace Kelly: The American Princess (1987)
Stagecoach (1986)
Nightkill (1980)
Beyond Westworld (1980)
B.A.D. Cats (1980)
Diary of a Teenage Hitchhiker (1979)
The Girls in the Office (1979)
Go Tell the Spartans (1978)
Good Guys Wear Black (1978)
Future Cop (1977)
Rich Man, Poor Man - Book II (1976)
Ark II (1976)
Whiffs (1975)
Baretta (1975)
Magnum Force (1973)
The Hero Cop: Yesterday and Today (1973)
The Harrad Experiment (1973)
The Baby (1973)
Sand Castles (1972)
The Bravos (1972)
Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate (1971)
Five Desperate Women (1971)
Monty Nash (1971)
Columbo (1971)
Yuma (1971)
Dr. Cook's Garden (1971)
Night Slaves (1970)
Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)
Bracken's World (1969)
Hang 'em High (1968)
Peyton Place (1964)
Channing (1963)
Combat! (1962)
The Wide Country (1962)
The Virginian (1962)
Alcoa Premiere (1961)
Bus Stop (1961)
Follow the Sun (1961)
The Defenders (1961)
Kraft Mystery Theatre (1961)
The Best of the Post (1960)
Route 66 (1960)
Insight (1960)
The Westerner (1960)
Thriller (1960)
The Tall Man (1960)
The Detectives (1959)
Startime (1959)
The Twilight Zone (1959)
Law of the Plainsman (1959)
Laramie (1959)
The Legend of Tom Dooley (1959)
Rawhide (1959)
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (1958)
The Rifleman (1958)
Steve Canyon (1958)
Tombstone Territory (1957)
Perry Mason (1957)
Richard Diamond, Private Detective (1957)
The Peacemaker (1956)
West Point (1956)
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre (1956)
Screen Director's Playhouse (1955)
The 20th Century Fox Hour (1955)
Gunsmoke (1955)
Medic (1954)
Meet Mr. McNutley (1953)
General Electric Theater (1953)
The Ford Television Theatre (1952)
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars (1951)
The Great Merlini (1951)
Studio One (1948)
Ford Theatre (1948)
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Known ForDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday1918-03-31
Deathday2013-08-20 (95 years old)
Birth PlaceBrooklyn, United States of America
ChildrenRobert Post
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
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