Ted Post (March 31, 1918 - August 20, 2013) was an American television and film director.

Biography

Early life and career

Born in Brooklyn, New York, Post started his career 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 theatre.

Post taught Acting and Drama at New York's High School of Performing Arts in 1950. He persuaded his friend, Sidney Lumet, to do likewise.

Television series

Success in the theater led to work in television from the early 1950s. Post directed episodes of many series including Gunsmoke, Perry Mason, Wagon Train, Rawhide, The Twilight Zone, Columbo and 178 episodes of Peyton Place. He also directed TV films (including the original Cagney and Lacey film-of-the-week)

Films

He also directed 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).

Death

Post died at the UCLA Medical Center, Santa Monica, California on August 20, 2013.

Filmography

TV films

Television

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