Maury Dexter(1927-2017)
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Director
- Producer
Maury Dexter first entered the business as a teenage actor in The Three Stooges
short, Uncivil War Birds (1946). After a few additional movie roles, he busied himself
with stage and TV work until the Korean War and military service
intervened; following his discharge, he landed an acting job on TV's
The Hank McCune Show (1949) and was soon working there behind the scenes as well. A
clerical job at Robert L. Lippert's Regal Films eventually led to producing and
directing gigs at that independent production company, where many of
the movies were shot in seven days on $100,000 budgets. He directed
over 20 features there, at American International Pictures and abroad
before he became, for the first time in his career, an assistant
director, working mostly for Michael Landon on his TV series Little House on the Prairie (1974) and
Highway to Heaven (1984). Landon's 1991 death prompted Dexter to retire.
