Maury Dexter (born Morris Gene Poindexter; June 12, 1927 – May 28, 2017) was an American producer and director of film and TV.
[2] Dexter was born in Paris, Arkansas, to William Henry and Emma (née Foster) Poindexter.
[2] Dexter first entered show business as a teenaged actor in The Three Stooges short, Uncivil War Birds (1946).
A clerical job at filmmaker Robert L. Lippert's Regal Films eventually led to Dexter producing and directing gigs at that independent production company, where many of the movies were shot in seven days on $100,000 budgets.
[3] A member of the Directors Guild of America since 1956, Dexter once directed 20 films in a year's time for 20th Century Fox.