 After a few additional movie roles, he busied himself with stage and TV work until the Korean War and military service intervened; following his discharge, he landed an acting job on TV's "The Hank McCune Show" (1950) and was soon working there behind the scenes, as well.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.A member of the Directors Guild of America since 1956, Dexter once directed 20 films in a year's time for 20th Century Fox.