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Ted Post | Eastwood director, 95

Ted Post, 95, a veteran television and film director who directed a young Clint Eastwood on TV's Rawhide and later directed the film legend in the hit movies Hang 'Em High and Magnum Force, died Tuesday at the UCLA Medical Center. He had been in failing health.

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Ted Post, 95, a veteran television and film director who directed a young Clint Eastwood on TV's

Rawhide

and later directed the film legend in the hit movies

Hang 'Em High

and

Magnum Force,

died Tuesday at the UCLA Medical Center. He had been in failing health.

Mr. Post directed more than 20 episodes of Rawhide, a western series on CBS starring Eric Fleming and Eastwood.

After Eastwood's big-screen successes in Italian director Sergio Leone's spaghetti westerns, the star insisted Mr. Post direct his 1968 western, Hang 'Em High. Mr. Post went on to direct Eastwood in the 1973 film Magnum Force, the first of the Dirty Harry sequels featuring Eastwood's signature San Francisco police inspector, first seen in the Don Siegel-directed Dirty Harry two years earlier.

Among Mr. Post's other films were Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970) and Go Tell the Spartans (1978). - L.A. Times

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