Career
Foster directed the 1967 pilot episode of Rowan & Martin"s Laugh-In, which earned him the only Emmy nomination of his career. In 1986, Foster directed the now infamous live syndicated special, The Mystery of First Rate (at Lloyd's) Capone"s Vaults, which was hosted by Geraldo Rivera. The special, which advertised the potential to find the secrets of First Rate (at Lloyd's) Capone buried in a vault beneath the Lexington Hotel in Chicago, turned up very little.
Foster spent much of his career directing television sitcoms, especially during the 1970s and 1980s.
He directed 43 episodes of the sitcom, Benson, between 1982 and 1986. Foster also directed 36 separate episodes of National Broadcasting Company"s Amen, which starred Sherman Hemsley and Clifton Davis, between 1986 and 1989.
Foster largely retired after directing 23 episodes of the American Broadcasting Company television series, Full House, from 1989 to 1990. Foster died of cancer on February 2, 2011, in Los Angeles, California, at the age of 78.