Ted Post
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Ted Post (March 31, 1918 – August 20, 2013) was an American television 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. Success in the theater led to work in television from the early 1950's. 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.
Films
- Old Pals (2000)
- 4 Faces (1999)
- The Human Shield (1992)
- Nightkill (1980)
- Good Guys Wear Black (1978)
- Go Tell the Spartans (1978)
- Whiffs (1975)
- Magnum Force (1973)
- The Harrad Experiment (1973)
- The Baby (1973)
- Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)
- Hang 'Em High (1968)
- The Legend of Tom Dooley (1959)
- The Peacemaker (1956)
TV movies
- Stagecoach (1986)
- Cagney & Lacey (1981)
- Diary of a Teenage Hitchhiker (1979)
- The Girls in the Office (1979)
- Sandcastles (1972)
- The Bravos (1972)
- Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate (1971)
- Five Desperate Women (1971)
- Yuma (1971)
- Dr. Cook's Garden (1971)
- Night Slaves (1970)
- The Young Juggler (1960)
TV
- Beyond Westworld (1980)
- B.A.D. Cats (1980)
- Future Cop (1977)
- Ark II (1976)
- Columbo (1976)
- Baretta (1975)
- Monty Nash (1971)
- Bracken's World (1969)
- Peyton Place (1964)
- The Twilight Zone (1960-1964)
- The Virginian (1962)
- Combat! (1962)
- Empire (1962)
- Thriller (1961-1962)
- General Electric Theater (1962)
- Bus Stop (1962)
- Rawhide (1960-1962)
- Alcoa Premiere (1961)
- The Defenders (1961)
- Route 66 (1961)
- The Westerner (1960)
- The Best of the Post (1960)
- Checkmate (1960)
- Startime (1960) TV Episode
- Wagon Train (1960)
- Insight (1960)
- Law of the Plainsman (1959)
- Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (1958)
- The Rifleman (1958)
- Perry Mason (1957)
- Richard Diamond, Private Detective (1957)
- West Point (1957)
- Zane Grey Theater (1956)
- Screen Directors Playhouse (1956)
- Sneak Preview (1956)
- The 20th Century-Fox Hour (1956)
- Gunsmoke (1955)
- Medic (1955)
- Waterfront
- The Ford Television Theatre (1953)
- Schlitz Playhouse of Stars (1953)
- Armstrong Circle Theatre (1952)
"The Baby" is a film by Ted Post. Described as "great pulp horror, a very perverted film, the breast feeding scene, and the electric cattle prod."
