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Ted Sherdeman (21 June 1909 – 22 August 1987) was an American radio producer, television writer and screenwriter. He was known for the films The Eddie Cantor Story (1953), Away All Boats (1956), St. Louis Blues (1958), A Dog of Flanders (1960) and Misty (1961); and the TV series Wagon Train (1958-1965), Hazel (1963-1966), My Favorite Martian ...
Aug 29, 1987 · Aug. 29, 1987 12 AM PT. Ted Sherdeman, a former radio writer who came to write for some of the most popular television series of the 1950s and ‘60s, died Saturday in a Santa Ana convalescent...
Ted Sherdeman was born on 21 June 1909 in Lincoln, Nebraska, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for Them! (1954), Latitude Zero (1969) and The McConnell Story (1955). He was married to Anne Stone. He died on 22 August 1987 in Santa Ana, California, USA.
Ted Sherdeman (21 June 1909 – 22 August 1987) was an American radio producer, television writer and screenwriter. He was known for the films The Eddie Cantor Story (1953), Away All Boats (1956), St. Louis Blues (1958), A Dog of Flanders (1960) and Misty (1961); and the TV series Wagon Train (1958-1965), Hazel (1963-1966), My Favorite Martian ...
Jan 5, 2023 · 1. Them! ’s primary scriptwriter once worked for General Douglas MacArthur. When World War II broke out, the knowledge Ted Sherdeman had gained from his career as a radio producer was put to...
The film is based on an original story treatment by George Worthing Yates, which was then developed into a screenplay by Ted Sherdeman and adaptation by Russell Hughes. Them! is one of the first of the 1950s "nuclear monster" films, and the first "big bug" feature film to use insects as the monster.
But if anyone deserves credit for the film's success, it's Ted Sherdeman, a former staff producer at Warner Bros. who was instrumental in developing the project. First, he commissioned the original story from George Worthing Yates, which appeared as a diary account about giant ants nesting in the New York subway.
