Lewis Teague (born 8 March 1938 in
Brooklyn,
New York) is a film director, whose work includes
Alligator,
Cat's Eye,
Cujo,
Reunion!,
Navy SEALs and
The Triangle.
Teague is currently experimenting with digital film making,
Teague was born on March 8, 1938, in Brooklyn, NY. He apprenticed with
Sydney Pollack at
Universal Television, and was a production manager on the rock concert documentary
Woodstock (1970).
Teague was employed by 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 also edited the Oscar-winning 1976 short documentary
Number Our Days, and was second-unit director on Samuel Fuller's World War II movie,
The Big Red One (1980).
Teague 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...
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