Direction: Ted Post

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Ted Post. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


The Twilight Zone (TV Series)

1959 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Rod Serling · John Brahm · Douglas Heyes · Buzz Kulik

Cast Rod Serling · Burgess Meredith · Vaughn Taylor · Jack Klugman

Synopsis TV series (1959-1964). 5 Seasons. 156 Episodes. Rod Serling's seminal anthology series focused on ordinary folks who suddenly found themselves in extraordinary, usually supernatural, situations. The stories would typically end with an ironic twist that would see the guilty punished.

8.0

4K votes

8.0

4K votes

Combat! (TV Series)

1962 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Bernard McEveety · John Peyser · Sutton Roley · Michael Caffey

Cast Vic Morrow · Rick Jason · Pierre Jalbert · Jack Hogan

Synopsis TV Series (1962-1967). 152 episodes. Combat!, a one-hour WWII drama series on television, followed a frontline American infantry squad as they battled their way across Europe. With mud-splattered realism, the show offered character studies of men striving to maintain their...

6.9

114 votes

6.9

114 votes

Direction Ted Post

Cast Howard Duff · David White · Frank Maxwell · Eileen Ryan

Synopsis Arthur Curtis is sitting his office chatting with secretary about plans for his daughter's birthday party and that he and his wife will be flying off for a couple of days of rest and relaxation. Suddenly he hears someone yell...

6.8

172 votes

6.8

172 votes

Hang 'Em High

1968 · Movie · 114 min. · United States

Direction Ted Post

Cast Clint Eastwood · Inger Stevens · Ed Begley · Arlene Golonka

Synopsis In Hang 'Em High (1968), a rancher named Jed Cooper is wrongfully accused of murder and lynched by a vigilante group. Miraculously surviving, he is rescued and deputized as a marshal. Seeking justice, Cooper hunts down his would-be killers while...

6.6

7K votes

6.6

7K votes

Direction Ted Post

Cast John Dehner · Stanley Adams · J. Pat O'Malley · Norman Leavitt

Synopsis Mr. Garrity comes into town offering to resurrect the dead and reunite the townsfolk with their departed loved ones out of the goodness of his heart. Do the town-folks want these miracles to occur?

6.5

52 votes

6.5

52 votes

Perry Mason (TV Series)

1957 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Erle Stanley Gardner · Arthur Marks · Jesse Hibbs · William D. Russell

Cast Raymond Burr · William Hopper · Barbara Hale · William Talman

Synopsis TV Series (1957-1966). 9 Seasons. 271 Episodes. Perry Mason (Raymond Burr) is an attorney who specializes in defending seemingly indefensible cases. With the aid of his secretary Della Street (Barbara Hale) and investigator Paul Drake (William Hopper), he often finds...

6.5

1K votes

6.5

1K votes

Magnum Force

1973 · Movie · 124 min. · United States

Direction Ted Post

Cast Clint Eastwood · Hal Holbrook · Mitchell Ryan · David Soul

Synopsis Eastwood plays cop Harry Callahan, who is baffled by a series of killings of prominent Bay Area criminals. He notes that all of the deaths were caused by the same weapon, a .357 Magnum. This is the gun that's widely...

6.4

8K votes

6.4

8K votes

Direction Ted Post

Cast Richard Basehart · Antoinette Bower · Barton Heyman · Harold Gould

Synopsis Colonel Cook stranded on another planet with no hope for rescue meets a woman who is the sole survivor from another planet.

6.4

55 votes

6.4

55 votes

The Twilight Zone: The Fear (TV)

1964 · Movie · 25 min. · United States

Direction Ted Post

Cast Peter Mark Richman · Hazel Court

Synopsis Charlotte Scott and policeman Robert Franklin seem to be stalked by giants.

6.4

56 votes

6.4

56 votes

Direction Jules Irving · Bill Bixby · Ted Post · James Sheldon

Cast Peter Strauss · Gregg Henry · James Carroll Jordan · Susan Sullivan

Synopsis TV Series (1976-1977). 21 episodes. This is the sequel to the mini-series, RICH MAN, POOR MAN.

6.3

54 votes

6.3

54 votes

Columbo: A Matter of Honor (TV)

1976 · Movie · 74 min. · United States

Direction Ted Post

Cast Peter Falk · Ricardo Montalban · Pedro Armendáriz Jr. · A Martinez

Synopsis When a famous bullfighter's trusted bookkeeper turns up dead in a bullring, Lt. Columbo suspects murder--with a bull as the murder weapon.

6.2

264 votes

6.2

264 votes

Columbo: A Case of Immunity (TV)

1975 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction Ted Post

Cast Peter Falk · Hector Elizondo · Sal Mineo · Kenneth Tobey

Synopsis The first secretary to the Suarian king may have immunity from the consequences of committing murder; but Lt. Columbo is wilier than any foreign diplomat.

6.2

248 votes

6.2

248 votes

The Rifleman (TV Series)

1958 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Joseph H. Lewis · Arnold Laven · Arthur H. Nadel · Gene Nelson

Cast Chuck Connors · Johnny Crawford · Paul Fix · Bill Quinn

Synopsis The adventures of a Wild West rancher who wields a customized Winchester rifle.

6.1

94 votes

6.1

94 votes

Gunsmoke (TV Series)

1955 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Andrew V. McLaglen · Harry Harris · Ted Post · Bernard McEveety

Cast James Arness · Milburn Stone · Amanda Blake · Ken Curtis

Synopsis TV Series (1955-1975). 20 Seasons. 635 Episodes. Marshal Matt Dillon is in charge of Dodge City, a town in the wild west where people often have no respect for the law. He deals on a daily basis with the problems...

6.1

88 votes

6.1

88 votes

Rawhide (TV Series)

1959 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Thomas Carr · Ted Post · Christian Nyby · Harmon Jones

Cast Clint Eastwood · Eric Fleming · Paul Brinegar · Steve Raines

Synopsis TV Series (1959-1965). 8 Seasons. 217 Episodes. Gil Favor is trail boss of a continuous cattle drive; he is assisted by Rowdy Yates. The crew runs into characters and adventures along the way.

5.8

99 votes

5.8

99 votes

Baretta (TV Series)

1975 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Stephen J. Cannell · Don Medford · Bernard L. Kowalski · Robert Douglas

Cast Robert Blake · Tom Ewell · Michel D. Roberts · Ed Grover

Synopsis Streetwise, undercover, unconventional cop Baretta solves crimes, often using disguises, with the help of stoolie Rooster and pet cockatoo Fred.

5.8

247 votes

5.8

247 votes

Go Tell the Spartans

1978 · Movie · 114 min. · United States

Direction Ted Post

Cast Burt Lancaster · Craig Wasson · Jonathan Goldsmith · Marc Singer

Synopsis A unit of American military advisors in Vietnam prior to the major U.S. involvement find similarities between their helpless struggle against the Viet Cong and the doomed actions of a French unit at the same site a decade before in...

5.4

350 votes

5.4

350 votes

Beneath the Planet of the Apes

1970 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Ted Post

Cast James Franciscus · Charlton Heston · Kim Hunter · Maurice Evans

Synopsis In Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970), a second astronaut, Brent, crash-lands on the mysterious planet ruled by intelligent apes. Searching for Taylor, the missing hero from the first film, Brent teams with Nova, Taylor's companion. Their journey leads...

5.4

6K votes

5.4

6K votes

The Baby

1973 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction Ted Post

Cast Anjanette Comer · Ruth Roman · Marianna Hill · Susanne Zenor

Synopsis A social worker who recently lost her husband investigates the strange Wadsworth family. The Wadsworths might not seem too unusual to hear about them at first - consisting of the mother, two grown daughters and the diaper-clad, bottle-sucking baby. The...

5.3

205 votes

5.3

205 votes