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Known for
Director
Gender
Male
Birthday
31 March
Location
New York, United States
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Biography
Theodore Ian Post (March 31, 1918 – August 20, 2013) 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 Hang 'Em High, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, and Magnum Force.
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).
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.
Post directed the 2001–02 Festival of the Arts at the University of Judaism (now the American Jewish University).
Post married the former Thelma Fiefel in 1940. They had two children, one of whom is a law scholar and Professor Robert Post.
Post died at the UCLA Medical Center, Santa Monica, California on August 20, 2013.
