Lewis Teague


Director

Biography

Edited a number of low-budget programmers for Roger Corman's New World Pictures, before directing similar fare such as "Alligator" (1980), "Death Vengeance" (1982), "Cujo" (1983) and "Cat's Eye" (1985) with evident panache. Teague scored his first commercial success with the romantic adventure "The Jewel of the Nile" (1985)....

Biography

Edited a number of low-budget programmers for Roger Corman's New World Pictures, before directing similar fare such as "Alligator" (1980), "Death Vengeance" (1982), "Cujo" (1983) and "Cat's Eye" (1985) with evident panache. Teague scored his first commercial success with the romantic adventure "The Jewel of the Nile" (1985).

Life Events

1970

Debut as actor, "The Hard Way"

1974

Directorial debut, "Dirty O'Neil" (co-directed with Howard Freen)

1974

First documentary, "Forgotten Island of Santosha"

1975

First film as editor, "Born to Kill"

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