Ted Baehr Biography
Ted Baehr(Full name: Millard Robert E. Theodore Baehr is an American media critic and Chairman of the Christian Film and Television Commission, a division of Good News Communications, Inc.
He is publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Movieguide, a website and biweekly journal that evaluates motion pictures and other entertainment products from a conservative Christian perspective on suitability for family consumption.
He also hosts nationally and internationally syndicated Movieguide radio and television programs. The organization’s stated mission is:
to redeem the values of the mass media of entertainment, according to biblical principles, by influencing industry executives and artists and by informing and educating the public about the influence of the entertainment media and about how to train their families to become media-wise, so they can choose the good and reject the bad.
Ted Baehr Age
Millard Robert E. Theodore Baehr is an American media critic and Chairman of the Christian Film and Television Commission, a division of Good News Communications, Inc. He was born May 31. 1946 in New York, NY. Ted Baehr is 73 years old as of 2019.
Ted Baehr Family
He is the son of Irvine E. Theodore Baehr, an actor who worked as Robert (Tex) Allen, and actress Evelyn Peirce. Ted has as sister called Katherine Meyer. He was raised in New York City, gaining experience acting in commercials, motion pictures, television and on stage.
Ted Baehr Wife
He is engaged to his wife Lili Baehr. During his twenties, he met and began dating Lili. They are now married for over 30 years, the couple has four children and currently resides in Southern California. Baehr is an evangelical Christian.
Ted Baehr Education
He graduated summa cum laude in Comparative Literature from Dartmouth College, attended Cambridge University, the University of Bordeaux & Toulouse, and the University of Munich, graduated with a Juris Doctor from New York University School of Law, finished his theological studies at the Institute of Theology at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, and received a Doctor of Humanities from Belhaven College.
Ted Baehr Net Worth
Millard Robert E. Theodore Baehr is an American media critic and Chairman of the Christian Film and Television Commission, a division of Good News Communications, Inc. Ted Baehr has an estimated Net Worth of $14 Million dollars as of 2019.
Ted Baehr Movieguide Awards 2019
Movieguide Awards 2019
Epiphany Prize to the Most Inspiring Movie
Epiphany Prize to the Most Inspiring TV Program
Faith & Freedom Award for Movies
Faith & Freedom Award for TV
Faith & Freedom Award for TV
Best Movie for Mature Audiences
Grace Award for Most Inspiring Performance for TV
Grace Award for Most Inspiring Performance for Movies
Best Movie for Families
Best Movie for Mature Audiences
Grace Award for Most Inspiring Performance for Movies
Grace Award for Most Inspiring Performance for TV
Ted Baehr Movieguide and CFTVC
In 1985 Baehr began publishing Movieguide as a biweekly magazine of movie reviews, which has now expanded to an online database of movie reviews.
Movieguide’s reviews use a “Biblical perspective” and are aimed at helping parents use informed judgment when deciding what entertainment products are suitable for their families’ enjoyment.
In 1986 Baehr founded The Christian Film & Television Commission (CFTVC), which encourages the major media companies to produce “wholesome, family entertainment.” By cross-indexing Movieguide’s moral criteria with box office statistics, Baehr’s commission produces an annual Report To The Entertainment Industry which attempts to prove that the American public prefers “wholesome, worthwhile, moral movies.”
The report also includes a listing of the ten best “family-friendly films” and ten best “morally edifying mature audience films” of the year, all of which are awarded plaques at Movieguide’s annual award show. The medievalist Sarah-Jane Murray is among those who have written for Movieguide.
Ted Baehr Movieguide ratings
Movieguide rates movies for both quality and acceptability. Quality ratings (1 to 4 stars) cover production value, entertainment quality, and technical or narrative accomplishment.
Acceptability ratings include evaluation of moral and theological issues, based on a “traditional view of the Bible and Christianity.”
The content of a movie is evaluated for acceptability based on its “dominant worldview” (biblical, Christian, environmentalist, humanist, romantic, socialist, homosexual, false religion, New Age / Pagan, etc.) and on secondary elements, (hints of worldview, foul language, violence, sex, nudity, alcohol, smoking/drugs, miscellaneous immorality, or miscellaneous philosophical or theological problems).
Ted Baehr Highlights
Highlights of the Report to the Entertainment Industry
All major movies released each year on the big screen in the United States, usually the top 250 to top 275 depending on how many movies the major studios in Hollywood and the major independents’ release, are included in the annual Report to the Entertainment Industry.
The results are presented to industry executives at a Hollywood awards gala one week or so before the Academy Awards.
According to the annual report for 2010 movies, “Movies that fit Movieguide’s high Christian, moral, biblical, theological, spiritual, production, aesthetic, and entertainment principles, values, and standards do much better than those movies consistently violating those principles, values, and standards.”
Ted Baehr The Summer Movie Guide 2018
Avengers: Infinity War (April 27) After 10 years and 18 movies, the Marvel Cinematic Universe comes to a climactic peak with an epic crossover of superheroes:
Bad Samaritan – May 4
Overboard – ;
Tully – ;
Breaking In – May 11
Life Of The Party – ;
Book Club – May 18
Deadpool 2 – ;
Ted Baehr Books
The Media-wise Family – 1998
How to Succeed in Hollywood: Without Losing Your Soul – 2010
Reel to Real: 45 Movie Devotions for Families – 2018
The Culture-Wise Family: Upholding Christian Values in a Mass-Media World – 2007
How to Succeed in Hollywood: A Field Guide for Christian Screenwriters, Actors, Producers, Directors, and More – 2010
The Amazing Grace of Freedom: The Inspiring Faith of William Wilberforce, the Slaves’ Champion – 2007
The Christian family guide to movies & video – 1989
Narnia Beckons: C.S. Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe and Beyond – 2005
Getting the Word Out: How to Communicate the Gospel in Today’s World – 1986
What Can We Watch Tonight? A Family Guide to Movies – 2003
So You Want to Be in Pictures? A Christian Resource for “making it” in Hollywood – 2004
The movie & video guide for Christian families in – 1987
Ted Baehr Movie Review
Ted was president of the organization that produced The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe for CBS-TV in 1980, boasting 37 million viewers and winning an Emmy Award. Baehr also has produced hundreds of programs for PBS television.
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