Ted Peshak

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1917-12-22 (89 years old)

Deathday

2006-10-09

Place of Birth

Plymouth, Iowa

Ted Peshak

Biography

Ted Peshak was born Theodore Joseph Peshak on Dec. 22, 1917, in Plymouth, Iowa. He was the house director for Coronet Instructional Media, a major producer of the genre known as "classroom training films", in the 1940s and 1950s. Many of the actors appearing in his films were his family, friends and neighbors from Libertyville, IL, where he lived. He was trained as a journalist at the University of Iowa and was a photographer during his Army service during World War II, and also photographed and directed training films during his army hitch. After working at a variety of jobs, including an advertising agency, he went to work for Coronet as a...

Acting

1949

Production

1951

1950

1947

Are You Popular?

as Director

1947

1950

1947

Shy Guy

as Director

1951

1952

Date Etiquette

as Director

1951

Going Steady?

as Director

1949

1950

1948

1949

Family Life

as Director

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