Lewis Teague

Known for DirectingBorn 1938-03-08 (age 88)Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Lewis Teague (born 8 March 1938 in Brooklyn, New York) is a film director, whose work includes Alligator, Cat's Eye, Cujo, The Dukes of Hazzard: Reunion!, Navy SEALs and The Triangle. He apprenticed with Sydney Pollack at Universal Television, and was a production manager on the rock concert documentary Woodstock (1970). Teague found gainful employment working for Roger Corman throughout the 1970s: he handled second-unit director chores on Death Race 2000 (1975), Thunder and Lightning (1977) and Avalanche (1978) and served as an editor for Monte Hellman's Cockfighter (1974) and Jonathan Demme's Crazy Mama (1975). Teague was also second-unit director on Samuel Fuller's World War II movie, The Big Red One (1980). Made his feature debut as the co-director of Dirty O'Neil (1974). He followed this with the Depression-era crime exploitation movie The Lady in Red (1979), which he also edited. The horror-creature feature Alligator (1980) and the urban vigilante film Fighting Back (1980) (TV) followed. Teague directed two Stephen King adaptations in the 1980s, Cujo (1983) and the anthology film Cat's Eye (1985). His other films include The Jewel of the Nile (1985), the action movie Navy Seals (1990), the science fiction offering Wedlock (1991) and the made-for-TV movie The Triangle (2001) (TV). In addition to his film work, Teague has directed episodes of such TV shows as "The Alfred Hitchcock Hour" (1962), "Barnaby Jones" (1973), "Shannon's Deal" (1990), "Profiler" (1996) and "Nash Bridges" (1996). After a five-year absence from directing, Teague directed the dramatic short Cante Jondo (2007).Read more

Movies & web series

Love and Treason

Summer Run

Bongo Wolf’s Revenge

Shannon's Deal

Number Our Days

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

Riker

King on Screen

Woodstock

Profiler

American Grindhouse

Nash Bridges

Cat's Eye

The Big Red One

Time Trax

Walk on the Wild Side

The Jewel of the Nile

OP Center

Cujo

Death Race 2000

Alligator

Cockfighter

Wedlock

Fighting Back

The Lady in Red

A Man Called Sloane

The Dukes of Hazzard: Reunion!

Fast Charlie... the Moonbeam Rider

Crazy Mama

Navy Seals

Hollywood Boulevard

Dog Days: The Making of 'Cujo'

Thunder and Lightning

The Triangle

Saved By The Light

Dirty O'Neil

T Bone N Weasel

Collision Course

Enough Is Enough

It's About This Carpenter