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Ted grew up in Pasadena, California. A graduate of The Thacher School
and Dartmouth College, he spent five years in Fort Wayne, Indiana in
the late sixties/early seventies, beginning with a one-year stint as
a VISTA worker in the War on Poverty. He co-founded the underground
newspaper, The Fort Wayne Free Press, a community based paper devoted
to peace, civil rights and other social justice related issues. He
served as its editor for three years. He left the newspaper paper
but remained in Indiana to work briefly as a still photographer and
16 mm. filmmaker for several years before returning to California.
He spent the next 22 plus years based out of Hollywood working as a
motion picture technician. He was Key Grip (head of the grip dept.)
on such productions as Back to School, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation,
Dennis the Menace, Baby's Day Out, George of the Jungle, Beetlejuice and
The Muse as well as on more rock videos, commercials, and industrial
films than he now cares to admit to. |
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In 1979, shortly after President Carter lifted US sanctions on the
People's Republic of China, Ted traveled to Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou
and Guangzhou with Steve Allen, Jayne Meadows and a number of other industry
luminaries as a part of an official film delegation from New York and Hollywood.
An article he wrote about that trip, as well as his photographs, appeared as
the cover piece for Filmmakers Newsletter, a once national magazine devoted
to independent film production. |
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In 1985, Ted moved up the coast to Carpinteria where, in addition to his
film work, he helped spearhead the successful grassroots community efforts to
save the Carpinteria Bluffs from development. Returning part-time to writing
and still photography, Ted created many photographic images of the Carpinteria
Bluffs in addition to his op ed pieces on the subject
[carpinteriabluffs.org].
One of his Bluffs images is featured as a poster, Country Road at the Bluffs,
as part of a fundraising poster project that, since 1990, has also included
well-known Santa Barbara area plein air artists Arturo Tello and Meredith Brooks
Abbott. |
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In recent years, Ted has been extremely active with the Santa Barbara Middle
School [sbms.org] as a parent and Trustee involved
with their fundraising, outdoor
program, & annual Songfest as well as teaching a theatre elective on stagecraft.
He has also created hundreds of still images used by the school. |
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Beginning in 2005, Ted began work for the Santa Barbara Blues Society as one
of its two official photographers. |
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Ted and his family currently reside in Carpinteria. |
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On the side, Ted plays blues harp and a little slide. |
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