Early Career
Teague was born on March 8, 1938, in Brooklyn, NY. He apprenticed with Sydney Pollack at Universal Television, and was a production manager on the rock concert documentary Woodstock (1970).
Teague was employed by Roger Corman throughout the 1970s, where he handled second-unit director chores on Death Race 2000 (1975), Thunder and Lightning (1977) and Avalanche (1978). Teague also served as an editor for Monte Hellman's Cockfighter (1974) and Jonathan Demme's Crazy Mama (1975). In 1976, he edited the Oscar-winning short documentary Number Our Days. Later, he was the second-unit director on Samuel Fuller's World War II movie, The Big Red One (1980).
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