Lewis Teague

Lewis Teague born 8 March 1938 in Brooklyn New York is a film director whose work includes Alligator Cats 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 secondunit director chores on Death Race 2000 1975 Thunder and Lightning 1977 and Avalanche 1978 and served as an editor for Monte Hellmans Cockfighter 1974 and Jonathan Demmes Crazy Mama 1975 Teague was also secondunit director on Samuel Fullers World War II movie The Big Red One 1980 Made his feature debut as the codirector of Dirty ONeil 1974 He followed this with the Depressionera crime exploitation movie The Lady in Red 1979 which he also edited The horrorcreature 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 Cats 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 madeforTV 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 Shannons Deal 1990 Profiler 1996 and Nash Bridges 1996 After a fiveyear absence from directing Teague directed the dramatic short Cante Jondo 2007