Lewis Teague Biography
Lewis Teague was born in Brooklyn in 1938 and is a film director, known for directing Alligator, Cat's Eye, Cujo, The Dukes of Hazzard: Reunion!, Navy SEALs and The Triangle. After apprenticing with Sydney Pollack at Universal Television, he took on the role of production manager for the rock concert documentary Woodstock (1970). Throughout the 1970s, Teague worked for Roger Corman, directing second unit on films such as Death Race 2000 (1975), Thunder and Lightning (1977) and Avalanche (1978), as well as serving as an editor on Monte's Cockfighter Hellman (1974) and Crazy Mama (1975) by Jonathan Demme. Additionally, Teague directed second unit on Samuel Fuller's World War II film, The Big Red One (1980). He made his debut as co-director of Dirty O'Neil (1974), followed by the Depression-era crime exploitation film, The Lady in Red (1979), which he also edited. In the 1980s, he directed two Stephen King adaptations, Cujo (1983) and Cat's Eye (1985), and also The Jewel of the Nile (1985), Navy Seals (1990), Wedlock (1991) and The Triangle (2001 ) (TV). Additionally, he directed some episodes of television shows such as "The Alfred Hitchcock Hour" (1962), "Barnaby Jones" (1973), "Shannon's Deal" (1990), "Profiler" (1996) and "Nash Bridges" (1996) . After a five-year hiatus from directing, Teague directed the short drama Cante Jondo (2007).
