Ted Post
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Born: March 31, 1918 · Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Died: August 20, 2013 (aged 95)
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Ted Post, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Columbo
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Perry Mason
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The Virginian
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The Twilight Zone
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The Rifleman
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Studio One
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Route 66
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Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
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Rawhide
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Combat!
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The Defenders
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Thriller
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Gunsmoke
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Baretta
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The Ford Television Theatre
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Laramie
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Magnum Force
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The Detectives
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Richard Diamond, Private Detective
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The 20th Century Fox Hour
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Tombstone Territory
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Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
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Startime
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The Tall Man
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Hang 'em High
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Screen Director's Playhouse
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Law of the Plainsman
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Alcoa Premiere
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Rich Man, Poor Man - Book II
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Bus Stop
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Beneath the Planet of the Apes
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Bracken's World
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The Westerner
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Steve Canyon
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Kraft Mystery Theatre
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Channing
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Monty Nash
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Beyond Westworld
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West Point
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Medic
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Waterfront
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Peyton Place
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Follow the Sun
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The Wide Country
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General Electric Theater
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Stagecoach
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Ark II
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Armchair Theatre
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Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
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Good Guys Wear Black
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The Best of the Post
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B.A.D. Cats
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Nightkill
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Future Cop
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Go Tell the Spartans
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Sandcastles
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The Harrad Experiment
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The Human Shield
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The Baby
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The Legend of Tom Dooley
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The Peacemaker
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The Girls in the Office
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Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate
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Yuma
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Diary of a Teenage Hitchhiker
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Dr. Cook's Garden
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Night Slaves
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Whiffs
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The Bravos
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Five Desperate Women
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The Great Merlini
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