Ted Prior

Ted Prior (born August 9, 1959) is an American actor, film producer, and bodybuilder. Born in Newark, New Jersey, Prior moved to Los Angeles in the late 1970s to pursue a career as a bodybuilder. With his brother David A. Prior directing, he acted in the horror film Sledgehammer (1983), and starred in Killzone (1985). Eventually the brothers were hired to make films Action International Pictures, which specialized in making low budget genre films. In their first effort with them, Prior had a supporting role in the horror film Killer Workout (1987) and the lead in the action film Deadly Prey (1987). Moving forward, Prior became an action film leading man for Action International Pictures until the 1990s. Separately from them, Prior acted in Hardcase and Fist (1989), Possessed by the Night (1994), Day of the Warrior (1996), etc. Until his brother's death in 2015, together they consistently made action oriented films including Future Zone (1990), The Final Sanction (1990), Raw Nerve (1991), Night Claws (2012), etc. Their last collaboration where he was the lead was Deadliest Prey (2013), a sequel to Deadly Prey. After the pair noticed that their film gained a cult status, they decided to make a sequel. Early life and bodybuilding Ted Prior was born on August 9, 1959. Prior said "I got into bodybuilding when I was 15 years old. I won the Teenage Mr. Maryland contest along with 10 other titles by the time I was 19. The reason I moved to California was to go to “gold’s gym” and become a pro bodybuilder."