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Ted Peshak

Born
Dec 22, 1917 · Aged 88
Died
Oct 9, 2006
Place of birth
Plymouth, Iowa
Gender
Male
Movie credits
1
TV credits
0
Directing credits
24

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…