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Ted Post
Director, Actor, Writer
Died August 20, 2013 (95 years)
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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 (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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Filmography
| 2017 | The Forsaken Westerns (TV Series) |
| 1991 | |
| 1986 | |
| 1981 | Cagney & Lacey (TV Series) |
| 1980 | |
| 1980 | Beyond Westworld (TV Series) |
| 1980 | B.A.D. Cats (TV Series) |
| 1979 | |
| 1979 | |
| 1978 | |
| 1978 | |
| 1976 | Rich Man, Poor Man - Book II (TV Series) |
| 1976 | Ark II (TV Series) |
| 1976 | Future Cop (TV Series) |
| 1975 | |
| 1975 | Baretta (TV Series) |
| 1973 | |
| 1973 | |
| 1973 | |
| 1972 | |
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| 1971 | |
| 1971 | |
| 1971 | Columbo (TV Series) |
| 1971 | |
| 1971 | |
| 1970 | |
| 1970 | |
| 1969 | Bracken's World (TV Series) |
| 1968 | |
| 1964 | Peyton Place (TV Series) |
| 1963 | Channing (TV Series) |
| 1963 | The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters (TV Series) |
| 1962 | Combat! (TV Series) |
| 1962 | Empire (TV Series) |
| 1962 | The Wide Country (TV Series) |
| 1962 | The Virginian (TV Series) |
| 1961 | Alcoa Premiere (TV Series) |
| 1961 | Bus Stop (TV Series) |
| 1961 | Follow The Sun (TV Series) |
| 1961 | The Defenders (TV Series) |
| 1961 | Kraft Mystery Theatre (TV Series) |
| 1960 | |
| 1960 | Insight (TV Series) |
| 1960 | The Westerner (TV Series) |
| 1960 | Checkmate (TV Series) |
| 1960 | Thriller (TV Series) |
| 1960 | The Tall Man (TV Series) |
| 1959 | The Detectives (1959) (TV Series) |
| 1959 | Ford Startime (TV Series) |
| 1959 | The Twilight Zone (TV Series) |
| 1959 | Law of the Plainsman (TV Series) |
| 1959 | Laramie (TV Series) |
| 1959 | |
| 1959 | Rawhide (TV Series) |
| 1958 | Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (TV Series) |
| 1958 | The Rifleman (TV Series) |
| 1958 | Steve Canyon (TV Series) |
| 1957 | Tombstone Territory (TV Series) |
| 1957 | Perry Mason (TV Series) |
| 1957 | Wagon Train (TV Series) |
| 1957 | |
| 1956 | Richard Diamond, Private Detective (TV Series) |
| 1956 | |
| 1956 | West Point (TV Series) |
| 1956 | Zane Grey Theater (TV Series) |
| 1956 | Armchair Theatre (TV Series) |
| 1955 | The 20th Century-Fox Hour (TV Series) |
| 1955 | Screen Directors Playhouse (TV Series) |
| 1955 | Gunsmoke (TV Series) |
| 1955 | TV Reader's Digest (TV Series) |
| 1954 | Medic (TV Series) |
| 1954 | Waterfront (TV Series) |
| 1953 | The Loretta Young Show (TV Series) |
| 1953 | Meet Mr. McNutley (TV Series) |
| 1953 | General Electric Theater (TV Series) |
| 1952 | Ford Theatre: All Star Theatre (TV Series) |
| 1951 | Schlitz Playhouse of Stars (TV Series) |
| 1950 | Danger (TV Series) |
| 1950 | The Armstrong Circle Theatre (TV Series) |
| 1948 | Studio One (TV Series) |
| 1948 | Ford Theatre (TV Series) |