A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
John T. Telersky
John T. Terlesky
John Todd Terlesky
Jon Terlesky
Джон Терлески
Birthplace:
Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Born:
May 30, 1961
John Todd Terlesky (born May 30, 1961) is an American actor, film director, television director and screenwriter. As an actor, he is known for playing Deathstalker in the 1987 film Deathstalker II, and Mike in Chopping Mall (1986). Terlesky was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on May 30, 1961. Since the mid-1980s, Terlesky has acted in a number of films and television series. His first notable television role was in the NBC drama Legmen. His other television credits include The Facts of Life, V, Our House, Empty Nest, Walker, Texas Ranger, a recurring role on Guns of Paradise and co-starring in the sitcom The Last Frontier. Some of Terlesky's film acting credits include Secret Admirer (1985), The Naked Cage (1986), Chopping Mall (1986), Valet Girls (1987), The Allnighter (1987), Deathstalker II (1987), Appointment with Death (1988), Damned River (1989) and Crazy People (1990). In 1998, Terlesky made his directorial debut with the film The Pandora Project, co-directing with Jim Wynorski. He directed a number of other independent, direct-to-video and television films before getting involved in episodic television. Since 2006, he has directed episodes of Boston Legal, Grey's Anatomy, Ugly Betty, Drop Dead Diva, Human Target, Army Wives, Body of Proof, Gossip Girl, Castle, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., How To Get Away With Murder, and The Blacklist (TV series).
Co-Producer:
2008 Warbirds
Director:
1998 The Pandora Project
1999 Judgment Day
1999 Supreme Sanction
2000 Chain of Command
2001 Guardian
2002 Malevolent
2003 Written In Blood
2005 Cerberus
2006 Not My Life
2007 By Appointment Only
2007 Fire Serpent
2008 Trial by Fire
2008 Warbirds
Producer:
1998 The Pandora Project
1999 Judgment Day
1999 Supreme Sanction
2000 Chain of Command
2001 Guardian
2002 Malevolent
2003 Written In Blood
2005 Cerberus
2006 Not My Life
2007 By Appointment Only
2007 Fire Serpent
2008 Trial by Fire
2008 Warbirds
Screenplay:
1998 The Pandora Project
1999 Judgment Day
1999 Supreme Sanction
2000 Chain of Command
2001 Guardian
2002 Malevolent
2003 Written In Blood
2005 Cerberus
2006 Not My Life
2007 By Appointment Only
2007 Fire Serpent
2008 Trial by Fire
2008 Warbirds
Story:
1998 The Pandora Project
1999 Judgment Day
1999 Supreme Sanction
2000 Chain of Command
2001 Guardian
2002 Malevolent
2003 Written In Blood
2005 Cerberus
2006 Not My Life
2007 By Appointment Only
2007 Fire Serpent
2008 Trial by Fire
2008 Warbirds
Writer:
1998 The Pandora Project
1999 Judgment Day
1999 Supreme Sanction
2000 Chain of Command
2001 Guardian
2002 Malevolent
2003 Written In Blood
2005 Cerberus
2006 Not My Life
2007 By Appointment Only
2007 Fire Serpent
2008 Trial by Fire
2008 Warbirds
Director:
2004 Boston Legal
2005 Criminal Minds
2005 Grey's Anatomy
2006 Ugly Betty
2007 Army Wives
2007 Gossip Girl
2009 Castle
2009 Drop Dead Diva
2009 Eastwick
2010 Human Target
2010 The Glades
2011 Against the Wall
2011 Body of Proof
2011 Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior
2011 Revenge
2013 Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
2013 The Blacklist
2014 Finding Carter
2014 How to Get Away with Murder
2016 The Catch
2016 Timeless
2017 Gone
2017 S.W.A.T.
2017 The Blacklist: Redemption
2018 Take Two
2018 The Rookie
2019 Grand Hotel
2020 Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist
2021 The Equalizer
2022 Quantum Leap
2023 The Irrational
2024 NCIS: Origins
Executive Producer:
2004 Boston Legal
2005 Criminal Minds
2005 Grey's Anatomy
2006 Ugly Betty
2007 Army Wives
2007 Gossip Girl
2009 Castle
2009 Drop Dead Diva
2009 Eastwick
2010 Human Target
2010 The Glades
2011 Against the Wall
2011 Body of Proof
2011 Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior
2011 Revenge
2013 Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
2013 The Blacklist
2014 Finding Carter
2014 How to Get Away with Murder
2016 The Catch
2016 Timeless
2017 Gone
2017 S.W.A.T.
2017 The Blacklist: Redemption
2018 Take Two
2018 The Rookie
2019 Grand Hotel
2020 Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist
2021 The Equalizer
2022 Quantum Leap
2023 The Irrational
2024 NCIS: Origins
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.