Maury Dexter obit

Maury Dexter Has Died

1927 - 2017

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Maury Dexter died on 5/28/2017. Born Morris Gene Poindexter 6/12/1927 in Paris, Arkansas. Preceded in death by his mother Emma Foster Poindexter, father William Henry Poindexter and brothers Foster , William and James. He is survived by his neice Constance Durkin of Arkansas. A member of the Director's Guild since 1936, he once directed 20 films in a year's time for 20th Century Fox. By the 60's , he had his own production company, but the apex of his career came when he became a director for Michael Landon's "Little House on the Prairie" and " Highway to Heaven"

Dexter was born in Paris, Arkansas, to William Henry and Emma (née Foster) Poindexter. He has three brothers, Foster, William Jr., and James.

Dexter first entered show business as a teenaged actor in The Three Stooges short, Uncivil War Birds (1946). After a few additional movie roles, he busied himself with stage and television work until the Korean War and military service intervened; following his discharge, he landed an acting job on The Hank McCune Show (1950) and was soon working there behind the scenes. 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.

 

Filmography

 

Walk Tall (1960)

The High Powered Rifle (1960)

The Purple Hills (1961)

Womanhunt (1962)

Air Patrol (1962)

The Firebrand (1962)

Young Guns of Texas (1962)

The Day Mars Invaded Earth (1963)

House of the Damned (1963)

Police Nurse (1963)

Harbor Lights (1963)

The Young Swingers (1963)

Surf Party (1964)

Raiders from Beneath the Sea (1964)

The Naked Brigade (1965)

Wild on the Beach (1965)

Django the Condemned (1965)

Maryjane (1968)

The Mini-Skirt Mob (1968)

The Young Animals (1968)

Hell's Belles (1969)