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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).
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Ted Post Biography / Wiki
| Name | Ted Post |
| Also Know | |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Directing |
| Place of Birth | New York, New York |
| Date of Birth | 1918-03-31 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 95 |
| Deathday | 2013-08-20 |
Ted Post Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| The Hero Cop: Yesterday and Today | Self | 1973-12-01 | Behind the scenes look at ‘Magnum Force’…. |
| Clint Eastwood: The Man from Malpaso | Self | 1994-12-11 | A look at the life and career of actor/director Clint Eastwood, including scenes from his past film and television work and interviews with friends, f… |
| Dirty Harry: The Original | Self | 2001-11-20 | A look at the making of the Dirty Harry series…. |
| Burt Lancaster: Daring to Reach | Self | 1996-03-15 | Born November 2, 1913, he went from street-wise tough to art-collector liberal-activist, from circus-acrobat hunk to Academy Award winner. Burton Step… |
Ted Post Directing Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Beneath the Planet of the Apes | Director | 1970-04-23 | The sole survivor of an interplanetary rescue mission discovers a planet ruled by apes, and an underground city run by telepathic humans…. |
| The Harrad Experiment | Director | 1973-05-11 | At fictional Harrad College students learn about sexuality and experiment with each other. Based on the 1962 book of the same name by Robert Rimmer, t… |
| Magnum Force | Director | 1973-12-23 | “Dirty” Harry Callahan is a San Francisco Police Inspector on the trail of a group of rogue cops who have taken justice into their own hands. When sha… |
| Hang ’em High | Director | 1968-07-31 | Marshall Jed Cooper survives a hanging, vowing revenge on the lynch mob that left him dangling. To carry out his oath for vengeance, he returns to his… |
| Go Tell the Spartans | Director | 1978-07-12 | Go Tell the Spartans is a 1978 American war film based on Daniel Ford’s 1967 novel “Incident at Muc Wa.” It tells the story about U.S. Army military a… |
| Stagecoach | Director | 1986-05-18 | Story follows a stagecoach ride through Old West Apache territory. On board are a cavalry man’s pregnant wife, a prostitute with a broken heart, a Mar… |
| The Baby | Director | 1973-03-01 | A social worker who recently lost her husband investigates the strange Wadsworth family. The Wadsworths might not seem too unusual to hear about them … |
| Good Guys Wear Black | Director | 1978-06-01 | The former leader of a commando rescue attempt into Vietnam tries to discover why his squad members are being murdered, one-by-one, after the war is o… |
| Diary of a Teenage Hitchhiker | Director | 1979-09-21 | The girl by the side of the road. You’ve seen her standing there. Thumb out. Smiling. There are thousands like her all over America. And you’ve heard … |
| Yuma | Director | 1971-03-02 | A down-and-dirty town is forced to shape up when a new marshal (Clint Walker) comes to town. However, when a scheme is launched to destroy the lawman’… |
| The Human Shield | Director | 1992-03-27 | The Human Shield is a 1991 film directed by Ted Post. It stars Michael Dudikoff and Tommy Hinkley. It is about a former government agent who must save… |
| Sandcastles | Director | 1972-10-17 | A young man who dies in an auto accident returns from the dead to meet up with the young woman who tried to save him…. |
| The Legend of Tom Dooley | Director | 1959-07-01 | Tom Dooley and Country Boy are on the run after killing an enemy soldier not knowing the war is over. The Command refuses to give them some slack for … |
| Nightkill | Director | 1980-12-18 | The wife of a wealthy industrialist finds herself caught-up in a web of intrigue & murder which was created by her own deceit. When she tries to e… |
| The Peacemaker | Director | 1956-11-01 | A former gunfighter who went to prison but then took up religion arrives in a western town as the new preacher. There he finds a feud between the ranc… |
| The Bravos | Director | 1972-01-09 | The commander of an isolated frontier cavalry post tries to stop an Indian war and find his son, who has been kidnapped…. |
| Night Slaves | Director | 1970-09-29 | A man and his wife stumble upon a town whose inhabitants turn into zombies and head for the edge of town every night… he seems to be the only one un… |
| Dr. Cook’s Garden | Director | 1971-01-19 | A young doctor returns to his New England home town after a long absence. He visits with the town’s kindly old physician, Dr. Cook, a man he has admir… |
| Five Desperate Women | Director | 1971-09-28 | Five young women vacation together at a resort on an isolated island. They are the resort’s only customers and, aside from the boat captain who brough… |
| Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate | Director | 1971-11-09 | Four elderly ladies with a lot of time on their hands get the idea to create a fictional “girl” for a computer dating service. However, things take a … |
| Whiffs | Director | 1975-10-15 | Elliott Gould steals Army nerve gas to help him rob banks when he’s kicked out of the military after 15 years of service as a human guinea pig in it… |
| The Girls in the Office | Director | 1979-02-01 | Four women employed by a chic department store discover that they must choose between love and a career…. |
| Director | Route 66 is an American TV series in which two young men traveled across America in a Chevrolet Corvette sports car. The show ran weekly on Fridays on… | ||
| Director | The Westerner is an American Western series that aired on NBC from September to December 1960. Created by Sam Peckinpah, the series was produced by Fo… | ||
| Director | An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC…. | ||
| Director | Combat! is an American television program that originally aired on ABC from 1962 until 1967. The show covered the grim lives of a squad of American so… | ||
| Director | The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent…. | ||
| Director | General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was sponso… | ||
| Director | The Wide Country is an American Western television series which aired on NBC from September 20, 1962 to April 25, 1963…. | ||
| Director | B.A.D. Cats is an American action/police drama that aired on ABC from January until February 1980 on Friday nights at 8 PM Eastern time. The series st… | ||
| Director | The Tall Man is a half-hour American western television series about Sheriff Pat Garrett and the gunfighter Billy the Kid that aired seventy-five epis… | ||
| Director | Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse is an American television anthology series produced by Desilu Productions. The show ran on CBS television between 1958 a… | ||
| Director | The Virginian is an American Western television series starring James Drury and Doug McClure, which aired on NBC from 1962 to 1971 for a total of 249 … | ||
| Director | Ford Theatre, spelled Ford Theater for the radio version and known as Ford Television Theatre for the TV version, was a radio and television anthology… | ||
| Director | The 20th Century Fox Hour is an American drama anthology series televised in the United States on CBS from 1955 to 1957. Some of the shows in this ser… | ||
| Director | The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across the old west. Along the way they meet up with adventu… | ||
| Director | The Defenders is an American courtroom drama series . It starred E. G. Marshall and Robert Reed as father-and-son defense attorneys who specialized in… | ||
| Director | Thriller is an American anthology television series that aired during the 1960–61 and 1961–62 seasons on NBC. The show featured host Boris Karloff… | ||
| Director | Ark II is an American live-action science fiction series, aimed at children, that aired on CBS, beginning in 1976, as part of its Saturday morning lin… | ||
| Director | Tombstone Territory is an American Western series starring Pat Conway and Richard Eastham. The series’ first two seasons aired on ABC from 1957 to 195… | ||
| Director | Follow the Sun is an American drama series which ran for thirty episodes on the ABC television network from September 17, 1961, through April 8, 1962…. | ||
| Director | Dick Powell’s Zane Grey Theatre, sometimes simply called Zane Grey Theatre, is an American Western anthology series which ran on CBS from 1956 to 1961… | ||
| Director | Law of the Plainsman is a Western television series starring Michael Ansara that aired on the NBC television network from October 1, 1959, until May 5… | ||
| Director | Kraft Mystery Theatre is an American anthology series that aired on NBC from June 17, 1961 to September 25, 1963. … | ||
| Director | Presented by Eastman Kodak, this show was a series of original scripts directed by acclaimed directors and featuring well-known performers. The storie… | ||
| Director | Meet Mr. McNutley is an American situation comedy which aired on CBS Television from 1953–1955, with Ray Milland in the role of fastidious Professor… | ||
| Director | Beyond Westworld was a short-lived 1980 television series that carried on the stories of the two feature films, Westworld and Futureworld. It featured… | ||
| Director | Columbo is a friendly, verbose, disheveled-looking police detective who is consistently underestimated by his suspects. Despite his unprepossessing ap… | ||
| Director | Baretta is an American detective television series which ran on ABC from 1975 to 1978. The show was a milder version of a successful 1973–74 ABC ser… | ||
| Director | Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place… | ||
| Director | Bus Stop is a 26-episode American drama which aired on ABC from October 1, 1961, until March 25, 1962, starring Marilyn Maxwell as Grace Sherwood, the… | ||
| Director | A series of unrelated stories containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a mac… | ||
| Director | Peyton Place is an American prime-time soap opera… | ||
| Director | Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS. Offering both comedies and drama, the series was spon… | ||
| Director | Richard Diamond, Private Detective is an American detective drama which aired on radio from 1949 to 1953, and on television from 1957 to 1960…. | ||
| Director | The West Point Story is a dramatic anthology television series shown in the United States by Columbia Broadcasting System during the 1956-57 season an… | ||
| Director | Laramie is an American Western television series that aired on NBC from 1959 to 1963. A Revue Studios production, the program originally starred John … | ||
| Director | The Detectives is an American crime drama series which ran on ABC during its first two seasons, and on NBC during its third and final season. The seri… | ||
| Director | Bracken’s World is an American drama series broadcast on NBC from September 19, 1969 to December 25, 1970. The series was created and produced by Doro… | ||
| Director | The Rifleman is an American Western television program starring Chuck Connors as rancher Lucas McCain and Johnny Crawford as his son, Mark McCain. It … | ||
| Director | Medic is an American medical drama that aired on NBC beginning in 1954. Medic was television’s first doctor drama to focus attention on medical proced… | ||
| Director | A veteran street cop gets an experimental android that has been programmed by the police lab for his new partner…. | ||
| Director | Insight is an American religious-themed weekly anthology series that aired in syndication from October 1960 to 1983. Produced by Paulist Productions i… | ||
| Director | Alcoa Premiere is an American anthology drama series that aired from October 1961 to July 1963 on ABC. The series was hosted by Fred Astaire, directed… | ||
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| Director | Startime is an anthology show of drama, comedy, and variety, and was one of the first American television shows broadcast in color. The program was ai… | ||
| Director | Professor Joe Howe is a Korean War veteran who is hired to teach English at Channing College. The dean Fred Baker is his mentor as Howe is writing a n… | ||
| Director | Monty Nash is a government agent who often goes undercover to apprehend criminals…. | ||
| Director | This show started in New York City, with Broadway actors and actresses. It then moved to Hollywood, California, where Hollywood actors and actresses h… | ||
Other Info
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Grace Kelly: The American Princess | Thanks | 1987-01-01 | Documentary – She came from a wealthy and competitive Philadelphia family, but the life of well-brought up society held little appeal for this acclaim… |
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