Lewis Teague

Lewis Teague (born on March 8, 1938) is an American film director, whose work includes Alligator, Cat's Eye, Cujo, The Jewel of the Nile, The Dukes of Hazzard: Reunion!, Navy SEALs and Wedlock.

Early career

Teague was born in Brooklyn, New York. 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, where he handled Second-Unit Director chores on Death Race 2000 (1975), Thunder and Lightning (1977) and Avalanche (1978). Teague also served as an editor for Monte Hellman's Cockfighter (1974) and Jonathan Demme's Crazy Mama (1975). In 1976, he edited the Oscar-winning short documentary Number Our Days. Later, he was the Second-Unit Director on Samuel Fuller's World War II movie, The Big Red One (1980).

1970s - 2000s

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 police comedy Collision Course (1989), 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).

Lewis Teague (painter)

R. (Rudolph) Lewis Teague (November 30, 1917 in Jamaica, New York – April 14, 1978 Fayston, Vermont) was a renowned American painter. The youngest son of Industrial Designer Walter Dorwin Teague, he initially studied architecture at the Pratt Institute. Two years into his studies, he was encouraged to consider pursuing painting by Tom Benrimo, his instructor, and he began studying at the Art Students League of New York, finding Morris Kantor a sympathetic mentor and teacher.

Born to Cecilia Fehon Teague and Walter Dorwin Teague, Teague attended PS1, then Gow School for Dyslexia and Learning Disabilities. Teague was left-handed, and letters from his father indicate he was there, at least partially, to learn to write with his right hand. While there, he learned to ski, inspiring his older brother, Dorwin, to also take up the sport, thus inspiring three generations of Teague skiers. Lewis was a member of the lacrosse and rugby teams.

Teague married Mary Lee Abbott on March 2, 1943. Teague left the Army in 1945 at the end of the war, and he and Abbott separated in 1946. Teague returned to the Art Students League where he met Virginia Vanderbilt. In 1948 and 1949, Teague contracted polio affecting his thigh and stomach muscles, as well as losing the use of his left arm. Following a long recovery from which he was not expected to survive let alone learn to walk again, he divorced Abbott in 1950, and he and Virginia were married.