Lewis Teague Filmography

Born:: Brooklyn, New York City, NY
Occupation:: Director, Second Unit Director, Editor
Biography:: Teague, an American director, has worked often with John Sayles as screenwriter for his films, and with Roger Corman and Dino de Laurentiis as producers. Teague's films often center around characters who are terrorized by some force from without. In Fighting Back (1982), the threat comes from...Read More

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The Big Red One: The Reconstruction

Crew: Second Unit Director

Actors: Lee Marvin, Mark Hamill, Robert Carradine, Bobby Di Cicco, Stéphane Audran

Synopsis: Iconoclastic film director Samuel Fuller spent decades nurturing his dream project, a movie about his experiences in the Army's First Infantry Division during World War II, but it wasn't until 1979 that he was able to finally bring the picture before the cameras. Unfortunately, Fuller was forced Read More

11/12/04
The Triangle

Crew: Director

Actors: Luke Perry, Olivia D'Abo, Dan Cortese, Polly Shannon, Dorian Harewood

Synopsis: It's The Shining at sea in the made-for-cable paranormal thriller The Triangle. The story opens in the Caribbean, where Stu (Luke Perry), a shady lawyer, has chartered a boat captained by Louis Morgan (Dorian Harewood) for a fishing excursion. Accompanying Stu are his "trophy" girlfriend Julia Read More

2001
Love and Treason

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Kim Delaney stars as Lt. Kate Timmons, a U.S. Navy officer whose traitorous ex-husband, Eli Dixon (David Keith), is imprisoned for selling secrets to the Russians. Escaping from Leavenworth, Dixon mounts an elaborate campaign of terror to get even with the United States in general and Kate (whose Read More

2001
Tom Clancy's 'OP Center'

Crew: Director

Actors: Harry Hamlin, Deidre Hall, Carl Weathers, Rod Steiger, John Savage

Synopsis: Another Tom Clancy political thriller is put to film with this made-for-television movie. Harry Hamlin stars as Paul Hood, the new director of an obsolete government crisis management center. Hood is assigned to downsize the center, but during first day on the job some nuclear warheads are Read More

1995
Saved by the Light

Crew: Director

Actors: Eric Roberts, Lynette Walden, Don McManus, K Callan

Synopsis: In this drama, a troubled youth rethinks his life after a freak lightning strike renders him dead for nearly half-an-hour. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1995
T-Bone N Weasel

Crew: Director

Actors: Gregory Hines, Christopher Lloyd, Ned Beatty, Rip Torn, Graham Jarvis

Synopsis: In this comical adventure two former convicts think of themselves as clever con men, but they are anything but. After teaming up and stealing a car, the two set off to make a new life conning country hicks. Unfortunately for them, things don't quite turn out as planned. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Read More

1992
Wedlock

Crew: Director

Actors: Rutger Hauer, Mimi Rogers, Joan Chen, James Remar, Stephen Tobolowsky

Synopsis: In this futuristic action drama directed by Lewis Teague, Frank Warren (Rutger Hauer) is a man accused of stealing millions of dollars worth of gems. In prison, all the inmates wear collars which are electronically joined to those of an unknown partner. The collars will explode if either partner Read More

1991
Navy Seals

Crew: Director

Actors: Charlie Sheen, Michael Biehn, Joanne Whalley, Rick Rossovich, Cyril O'Reilly

Synopsis: This exercise in patriotic, high-tech action centers on a select group of Navy commandos and their battles against a Middle East terrorist group. This particular squadron is led by a pair of rivals: cocky, fiery Hawkins (Charlie Sheen) and stoic, unflappable Curran (Michael Biehn). When an Read More

7/20/90
Shannon's Deal

Crew: Director

Actors: Jamey Sheridan

Synopsis: Cynical Philadelphia lawyer-turned-p.i. Jamey Sheridan aims his investigatory skills at an international smuggling ring. Sheridan wants to know who's supplying the weapons that are leaving the country, and who's supplying the drugs that are rolling in. The deeper he digs, the dirtier it gets; Read More

1989
Collision Course

Crew: Director

Actors: Jay Leno, Chris Sarandon, Ernie Hudson, John Hancock

Synopsis: An arrogant Detroit cop (Jay Leno) must work with his efficient Japanese counterpart (Pat Morita) to corner an evil ganglord. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

4/22/88
Cat's Eye

Crew: Director

Actors: Drew Barrymore, James Woods, Alan King, Kenneth McMillan, Robert Hays

Synopsis: Cat's Eye is an uneven, tepid trilogy of stories written by Stephen King connected by a cat which appears at the beginning of each story. The best story, and first episode, concerns chain-smoker Morrison (James Woods) who joins a stop-smoking group run by sadistic Dr. Monatti, played with great Read More

1985
The Jewel of the Nile

Crew: Director

Actors: Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito, Spiros Focas, Avner Eisenberg

Synopsis: The Jewel of the Nile takes up where Romancing the Stone left off, with romance novelist Joan Wilder (Kathleen Turner) traveling around the world with her boyfriend, Jack Colton (Michael Douglas). But Joan is becoming bored with Jack and all the romantic attention; as she asks, "How much romance Read More

1985
Cujo

Crew: Director

Actors: Dee Wallace, Danny Pintauro, Daniel Hugh Kelly, Christopher Stone, Ed Lauter

Synopsis: Based on a Stephen King novel, Cujo is not as menacing or as frightening as other film adaptations of King's popular stories and especially cannot compare to the 1976 Carrie. Cujo is a happy St. Bernard until he is bitten on the nose by a rabid bat and slowly begins manifesting the symptoms of his Read More

1983
Fighting Back

Crew: Director

Actors: Tom Skerritt, Patti LuPone, Michael Sarrazin, Yaphet Kotto, David Rasche

Synopsis: An Italian deli owner (Tom Skerritt) gets fed up with the petty hoodlums in his south Philadelphia neighborhood who have been terrorizing his friends. He decides to form a neighborhood watch group to fight off the crooks. While his intentions are the very best, the group of vigilantes he forms Read More

1982
Alligator

Crew: Director

Actors: Robert Forster, Robin Riker, Michael Vincente Gazzo, Dean Jagger, Perry Lang, Henry Silva

Synopsis: Lewis Teague directed this sly horror-comedy from a script by John Sayles, which plays off the old urban legend about the dangers of flushing one's pet alligator down the toilet. One such unlucky reptile is "Ramon," who survives in the subterranean cesspool by feeding on the steroid-saturated Read More

1980
The Big Red One

Crew: Second Unit Director

Actors: Lee Marvin, Mark Hamill, Robert Carradine, Bobby Di Cicco, Stéphane Audran

Synopsis: Samuel Fuller's valedictory war picture, The Big Red One follows the First Infantry Division from Africa to Europe during the years 1942 through 1945. Lee Marvin portrays the division sergeant; he's tough and experienced, to be sure, but he takes on his job with cool professionalism rather than Read More

1980
The Lady in Red

Crew: Director, Editor

Actors: Pamela Sue Martin, Robert Conrad, Louise Fletcher, Christopher Lloyd, Laurie Heineman, Robert Hogan

Synopsis: Escaping from her childhood life of poverty and abuse on the farm, in the 1930s, Polly Franklin (Pamela Sue Martin) sets her sights on Hollywood as the promised land and leaves home. However, she doesn't get that far - she lands in Chicago instead. Taking the low-paying jobs which are available to Read More

1979
Avalanche

Crew: Director, Special Effects

Actors: Rock Hudson, Mia Farrow, Robert Forster, Jeanette Nolan, Rick Moses

Synopsis: When an "I'm-just-makin'-money" developer plops his new ski lodge at the foot of a mountain, the locals warn him about snowslides. So it's not too long before a gigantic avalanche buries the lodge and all the snow bunnies in it. Rock Hudson plays the ski lodge owner and Mia Farrow is his Read More

1978
Thunder and Lightning

Crew: Second Unit Director

Actors: David Carradine, Kate Jackson, Roger C. Carmel, Sterling Holloway, Ed Barth

Synopsis: David Carradine and Kate Jackson spend most of their time peering over dashboards and revving up outboard motors in this extended chase film about moonshiners engaged in a frantic racing contest. Carradine is Harley Thomas, a Florida moonshiner who challenges Ralph Junior (Roger C. Carmel), the Read More

1977
Crazy Mama

Crew: Editor

Actors: Cloris Leachman, Stuart Whitman, Ann Sothern, Tisha Sterling, Jim Backus

Synopsis: Cloris Leachman stars as Melba, a woman with whom violence is a way of life, in Jonathan Demme's high-pitched "B"-movie Crazy Mama. The film spans three decades in the violent life of Melba, beginning in Jerusalem, Arkansas in 1932, when law enforcers kill her father (Clint Kimbrough), turning her Read More

1975
Dirty O'Neil

Crew: Director

Actors: Morgan Paull

Synopsis: Morgan Paull is Jimmy "Dirty" O'Neill in this American-International actioner. An Eastwood-style cop, O'Neill beds down one gorgeous girl after another. When not commiserating between the sheets, O'Neill can be found busting the heads of dope pushers and vice lords. Comic actor Art Metrano, second Read More

1974
Cockfighter

Crew: Editor

Actors: Warren Oates, Richard B. Shull, Harry Dean Stanton, Troy Donahue, Millie Perkins

Synopsis: Frank Mansfield (Warren Oates) is a game cock trainer who has taken a vow of silence; he once bragged too loudly about his cockfighting prowess and ended up losing his best fowl in a drunken, late-night match before an important tournament. To regain his pride after such hubris, Frank refuses to Read More

1974
Summer Run

Crew: Editor

Actors: Phyllis Altenhaus, John Broderick, Gail Joy, Tina Lund, Froda Rassmussen

Synopsis: In this scenic drama, a young man spends his vacation hiking across seven European countries. Along the way he falls in love with a fellow traveler, a Norwegian girl. The affair is more than a summer fling, and at the journey's end, he must decide whether to remain with her or go back home. Read More

1974
Forgotten Island of Santosha

Crew: Editor

Synopsis: This surfing documentary by surfer Larry Yates has qualities reminiscent of a home movie, and chronicles Yates and Rick Ely's travels through the South Seas in pursuit of waves. In addition to surfing footage, the film also records tribal dances, and religious processions. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Read More

1974
The Hard Road

Actors: Connie Nelson, Catherine Howard, Gary Kent

Synopsis: The Hard Road is a 1970s exploitation flick posing as a crusading expose. Connie Nelson plays a "nice" girl who goes from bad to worse after she becomes pregnant. Kicked out of school and virtually driven from her home, Nelson finds solace in drugs. She starts out with pot, graduates to the hard Read More

1970
Woodstock

Crew: Production Manager

Actors: Joan Baez, Joe Cocker, The Who, Crosby, Stills & Nash

Synopsis: This musical documentary covers the three-day 1969 music festival on the property of Max Yasger's farm that symbolized the late 1960s in terms of musical, social and political ideology of the era. American audiences are introduced to Ten Years After, featuring guitar great Alvin Lee. Jimi Hendix Read More

1970
Do Not Throw Cushions into the Ring

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Steve Ihnat, Arthur O'Connell, Ed Asner, Carla Borelli

Synopsis: Actor Steve Ihnat, fed up with playing two-dimensional heavies, turned TV director in the late 1960s. Do Not Throw Cushions Into the Ring is a rare theatrical-feature directorial effort for Ihnat, who also produced, wrote, edited an starred in the film. Essentially a "work in progress," the film Read More

1970
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: Second Verdict

Crew: Director

Actors: Martin Landau, Frank Gorshin, Sharon Farrell, John Marley, Harold J. Stone

Synopsis: Defense lawyer Ned Murray (Martin Landau) is certain that he has made a name for himself by getting his client Lew Rydell (Frank Gorshin) acquitted on a murder charge. Later on, however, Lew mockingly informs Ned that he was actually guilty of the crime -- and under the rule of double jeopardy, he Read More

1964