Lewis Teague (born March 8, 1938) is an American film director, whose work includes Alligator, Cat's Eye, Cujo, The Jewel of the Nile, The Dukes of Hazzard: Reunion!, Navy SEALs and Wedlock.

But I got into trouble, got kicked out of high school, joined the Army, discovered German beer, stopped drawing and painting.

[5] His influences were French filmmakers like Jean Luc Godard, Francois Truffaut and Jacques Rivette and his classmates included Jim McBride and Martin Scorsese.

[6] Teague left the school in 1963 without completing a degree when he was offered a job by Universal working on The Alfred Hitchcock Hour.

[7]) Teague apprenticed with Sydney Pollack and had an early directing credit with the episode "The Second Verdict" on The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1964) starring Martin Landau.

Teague worked as a production manager on the rock concert documentary Woodstock (1970) and was cinematographer on Bongo Wolf's Revenge (1970).

[10] Teague was second unit director and assistant editor on Death Race 2000 (1975); edited Crazy Mama (1975) for Jonathan Demme; assistant director on Thunder and Lightning (1977) (made for Corman but at 20th Century Fox); and was responsible for the avalanche sequence in Avalanche (1978).

He later said, "I was very lucky that that happened because it gave me a chance to do what I can do well, which is just sort of a gangster action film with really people in it and not have to deal with special effects and stuff.

"[3] Lady in Red starred Robert Conrad, who got Teague a job directing an episode of the TV series A Man Called Sloane.

He also did episodes of Vega$ and Barnaby Jones and was the Second-Unit Director on Samuel Fuller's World War II movie, The Big Red One (1980).

[3] Teague was called in at the last minute to do a Stephen King adaptation, Cujo (1983), after original director Peter Medak left the project.

[10] Teague was going to direct the film of Clan of the Cave Bear from a script by Sayles but left the project after a dispute with the producers.

They're similar in a lot of ways- both prolific, intelligent people who don't care a great deal about material things.

"[10] Teague spent over a year developing a film for Orion that was not made, when de Laurentiis asked him to take over Collision Course (1989), after original director Bob Clark left.

He then directed Navy Seals (1990), for Orion, replacing original director, Richard Marquand, who had died just before filming commenced.

Producer Brenda Feigen said Orion recommended Teague as the studio had been developing another project with the director that did not go ahead.

[14] He moved into episodic television, and directed episodes of Time Trax (the pilot[20]), Fortune Hunter, Profiler, and Nash Bridges, and did some TV movies: OP Center (1995), Saved by the Light (1995),Justice League of America (1997) (doing uncredited work), The Dukes of Hazzard: Reunion!