Beneath the Planet of the Apes

Arthur P. Jacobs is a former press agent (Gregory Peck, Marilyn Monroe, Grace Kelly were among his clients) who started in the film business as a studio messenger, determined that some day he would be a producer. He achieved this dream with "What A Way To Go!" and followed this hilarious comedy with the costliest musical ever filmed, "Doctor Dolittle," with Rex Harrison in the title role. He will film "The Chairman," a suspense espionage story starring Frank Sinatra, for 20th Century-Fox later this year and is also at work on a musical version of "Goodbye, Mr. Chips," to star Peter O'Toole and Petula Clark.

Mort Abrahams, Associate Producer of "Doctor Dolittle" and "Planet of the Apes," and Executive Vice-President of APJAC, came to this estate through the somewhat unusual route of statistics. Son of a New York stockbroker, Abrahams took a mastered degree in economics at Columbia University and shortly theater became a statistician at Columbia Pictures.

Later he was motion picture consultant to the Bank of America and began writing for television as an avocation. In 1950, Abrahams produced a television series, "Tom Corbett, Space Cadet," the first science-fiction serial.

Abrahams progressed from this into the production of various dramatic anthologies for all three networks, including such series as "Tales of Tomorrow," "Chrysler Medallion Theater," "Campbell Sound Stage" and "Kraft Suspense Theater," among others. Subsequently, he produced "The General Electric Theater," became program director for National Telefilm Associates, then produced "Route 66." He won an Emmy Award and Producers' Guild nomination for producing "The Man From U.N.C.L.E."

Director Ted Post is probably the most prolific director in television history. He was the first director on "Peyton Place" and made 224 episodes of the record-smashing series. He has also directed the "Fred Astaire Anthology" series, "bus Stop," "Checkmate," "Route 66" and other for a total of more then 700 television dramas. But Post is also a film maker of reputation, whose direction of the Clint Eastwood opus, "Hang 'Em High," was applauded by Time as "stylish and spirited," and by The New York Times as "brilliant." Post's father was an inventor: one of the products of his fertile mind was the zipper. Post served with American forces in World War II, drove his jeep over a landmine and was hospitalized for more than a year. Before becoming a film director, he ushered in New York theatres, wired radio receivers, eventually formed a summer stock company and toured the Borscht Circuit in the Catskill Mountains. He served a backstage apprenticeship in the New York theater before coming to Hollywood.