29 Facts About Lewis Teague

Lewis Teague dropped out of high school at age 17 and enrolled in the army, serving for three years in Germany.

Lewis Teague studied at New York University, where he fell in love with filmmaking and realised that was what he wanted to do for a career.

Lewis Teague's influences were French filmmakers like Jean Luc Godard, Francois Truffaut and Jacques Rivette and his classmates included Jim McBride and Martin Scorsese.

In 1963 Lewis Teague won a scholarship for being the most promising student at the school.

Lewis Teague left the school in 1963 without completing a degree when he was offered a job by Universal working on The Alfred Hitchcock Hour.

Lewis Teague then went to work with George Roy Hill assisting on Hawaii.

Lewis Teague later said he "discovered mairjuana and dropped out" after watching The Beatles perform.

Lewis Teague ran the Cinemateque 16, an underground movie theater in Los Angeles.

Lewis Teague worked as a production manager on the rock concert documentary Woodstock and was cinematographer on Bongo Wolf's Revenge.

Lewis Teague then worked in the film departent of KCT directing documentaries.

Lewis Teague made his debut as a feature director with Dirty O'Neil, which he co-directed.

In 1974, Lewis Teague was employed by Roger Corman at New World Pictures at the recommendation of Martin Scorsese who had been to NYU.

Lewis Teague was second unit director and assistant editor on Death Race 2000 ; edited Crazy Mama for Jonathan Demme; assistant director on Thunder and Lightning ; and was responsible for the avalanche sequence in Avalanche.

Lewis Teague was extremely well-organized, very insightful, very quick to make decisions.

Lewis Teague said Corman had offered Lewis Teague the job of directing a John Sayles script, Battle Beyond the Stars, but that project was postponed.

Lewis Teague did episodes of Vega$ and Barnaby Jones and was the Second-Unit Director on Samuel Fuller's World War II movie, The Big Red One.

Lewis Teague persuaded the produced to allow the script to be rewritten by John Sayles.

Lewis Teague did an episode of Riker then helmed the vigilante film Fighting Back for Dino de Laurentiis.

Lewis Teague was called in at the last minute to do a Stephen King adaptation, Cujo, after original director Peter Medak left the project.

Lewis Teague was going to direct the film of Clan of the Cave Bear from a script by Sayles but left the project after a dispute with the producers.

Lewis Teague accepted an offer from De Laurentiis to make another King script, Cat's Eye.

Lewis Teague has absolutely no shame and no moral sense.

Lewis Teague had his biggest budget to date with The Jewel of the Nile, a sequel to Romancing the Stone.

Lewis Teague spent over a year developing a film for Orion that was not made, when de Laurentiis asked him to take over Collision Course, after original director Bob Clark left.

Lewis Teague returned to television with Shannon's Deal, based on a script by Sayles.

Lewis Teague then directed Navy Seals, for Orion, replacing original director, Richard Marquand, who had died just before filming commenced.

Lewis Teague had a difficult relationship with Teague and says he lost control of the film.

Lewis Teague directed two films for cable: Wedlock and T Bone N Weasel.

Lewis Teague was Director of Photography and Co-Editor of the 2014 short, Clifford Goes Boom.