Ted Post

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Ted Post
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Theodore Ian Post

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Theodore Ian Post (March 31, 1918 – August 20, 2013) was an American film, television, and theatre director.[1] He directed numerous episodes of well-known television series during the 1950s and '60s, and was nominated for a Primetime Emmy and two Directors Guild of America Awards for his work. His feature film directing credits included the Clint Eastwood vehicles Hang 'Em High (1968) and Magnum Force (1973), the Planet of the Apes film Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970), the Vietnam War film Go Tell the Spartans (1978), and the Chuck Norris action picture Good Guys Wear Black (also 1978).

Early life

Post was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1918, the son of Jacob and Dena Post, Jewish emigrants from the Russian Empire.[2] He started his career in 1938 working as an usher at Loew's Pitkin Theater in Brooklyn.[2] He abandoned plans to become an actor after training with Tamara Daykarhanova, and turned to directing summer theater, where Post began his lengthy association in the director's chair.

Career

Theatre

Post was a director at the American Negro Theatre during the 1940s.[2] During the Second World War, Post he in the U.S. Army, directing entertainment productions for Special Services in Italy.[3] After his discharge, he returned to directing theatre in New York. During the 1950s, taught acting and drama at New York's High School of Performing Arts in 1950. He persuaded his friend Sidney Lumet to do likewise.[4] Later on in his career, he taught directing at University of California, Los Angeles,

Post directed the 2001–02 Festival of the Arts at American Jewish University.[citation needed]

Television

Success in the theater led to directorial work in television from the early 1950s, beginning with The Ford Television Theatre. 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 (including the original Cagney & Lacey film-of-the-week).

Film

He also directed feature films, including the second installment of the Planet of the Apes film series, Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970), Go Tell the Spartans (1978), Good Guys Wear Black (1978), starring Chuck Norris, and two Clint Eastwood films, Hang 'Em High, the movie which launched Clint Eastwood's career as a leading man in American pictures, and Magnum Force.[5]

Personal life

Post married the former Thelma Fiefel (born July 24 1920 died April 16 2026) in 1940. They had two children, one of whom is the law scholar and professor Robert Post.

Death

Post died aged 95 at the UCLA Medical Center, Santa Monica, California on August 20, 2013.[6]

Selected filmography

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Short films

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  1. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Ted Post". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2008. Archived from the original on May 14, 2008.
  2. ^ a b c Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Ted Post, Director for Film and Television, Dies at 95 (Published 2013)". August 25, 2013. Archived from the original on September 24, 2025. Retrieved February 11, 2026.
  3. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Vitello, Paul (August 25, 2013). "Ted Post, Director for Film and Television, Dies at 95". The New York Times.
  4. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."RIP 'MAGNUM FORCE' DIRECTOR TED POST (MARCH 31, 1918 – AUGUST 20, 2013)". Daily Grindhouse. Retrieved February 11, 2026.
  5. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Sayre, Nora (December 26, 1973). "'Magnum Force': Police Story Is Sequel to 'Dirty Harry'". The New York Times.
  6. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.McLellan, Dennis (August 20, 2013). "Ted Post dies at 95; veteran TV and movie director". Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles. ISSN 0458-3035. Retrieved August 21, 2013.

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