Ted Post


Ted Post was an American director of film and television. Highly prolific, Post directed numerous episodes of well-known television series including Rawhide, Gunsmoke, and The Twilight Zone as well as blockbuster films such as Beneath the Planet of the Apes and Magnum Force.

Biography

Early life and career

Born in Brooklyn, New York City, 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, Combat!, Columbo and 178 episodes of Peyton Place. He also directed TV films.

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 2001–02 Festival of the Arts at the University of Judaism.

Death

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

Selected filmography

Film