Dr. Ted Baehr is an award-winning producer, writer, director, radio & TV personality, and scholar. With all these accomplishments, his one job is helping to redeem the values of the media while educating audiences on how to use discernment in selecting their entertainment.

Dr. Baehr is the Chairman of the Christian Film and Television Commission, a non-profit organization committed to educating the entertainment industry and the general public of the media’s impact on its audiences. He also serves as the publisher of

MOVIEGUIDE ® : A Family Guide to Entertainment based on biblical values, and he writes a syndicated column for 29 publications nationwide. Baehr’s radio and TV programs, "

MOVIEGUIDE®: A Family Guide to Movies and Entertainment," is syndicated nationally and internationally.

Utilizing eighteen years of research in evaluating the impact of the media on both children and adults, Dr. Baehr has been featured on numerous shows such as Oprah, CNN, Geraldo, Entertainment Tonight, The 700 Club, and the Morton Downey, Jr. Show. His opinions, critiques and insights are featured in major newspapers and magazines throughout the United States including USA Today, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The Hollywood Reporter, and U. S. News and World Report.

Dr. Baehr lectures, teaches and preaches throughout the world. He has lectured at The House of Lords of The Parliament of The U.K., taught at the Bombay Communication Institute, lectured at Dartmouth College, University of Virginia and at U.C.L.A. 

Dr. Baehr’s books include THE MEDIA-WISE FAMILY {Chariot Victor}, GETTING THE WORD OUT {Harper and Row}, THE CHRISTIAN FAMILY GUIDE TO MOVIES AND VIDEO (Volumes 1 and 2) {Wolgemuth and Hyatt}, and HOLLYWOOD'S REEL OF FORTUNE: A WINNING STRATEGY TO REDEEM THE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY {Coral Ridge Ministries}. He is also a contributing author to RELIGION AND PRIME TIME TELEVISION {Praeger}.

Dr. Baehr is past president of the Episcopal Radio-Television Foundation, an organization that won an Emmy Award for Best Animated Special: "The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe," aired as a CBS special during his tenure and was watched by more than 37 million viewers. Dr. Baehr was nominated for an Emmy Award for the PBS Series, "Perspectives: War and Peace," in which Ted served as the executive producer and host.

Dr. Baehr has received five Angel Awards from Excellence in Media, a Chicago Intercom Silver Plaque, the prestigious Wilbur Award, two awards from the Southern California Motion Picture Council, The President’s Award from ICVA/ICCM, the coveted Religious Heritage of America Faith and Freedom Award, and the Covenant Award from the Radio Television Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention. In 1982, Dr. Baehr received international recognition for his work as Executive Producer of "The Power" Exhibit at the World’s Fair, which was a combined effort of 15 denominations working together.

Presently, Ted serves on the board or board of advisors of more than 20 organizations, including the Religious Heritage of America, National Religious Broadcasters, the American Theater of Actors, and the Theological Summit Conference. He is a member of the United Seniors Association and an active member of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and the Press Club.

Ted Baehr was born in 1946, the son of Robert "Tex" Allen/AKA Theodore Baehr and Evelyn Peirce, both successful stage, screen, and television actors. Growing up in New York, Ted followed in his parent’s footsteps, performing in commercials, movies, television, and stage.

After studying abroad at the University of Munich, Germany; Cambridge University, England; and Bordeaux and Toulouse Universities in France, he graduated with high distinction in Comparative Literature and as a Rufus Choate Scholar from Dartmouth College. He then received his Juris Doctor from New York University School of Law, where he served as the editor of the New York Law School Newspaper.

It wasn’t until 1975 that Baehr’s life turned. While Ted was financing independent movies for Canon Films, a friend suggested that he read the Bible, which changed his perspective both professionally and personally.

Baehr decided to attend seminary at the Institute of Theology at the Cathedral of St. John The Divine. He accepted a position as the Director of the Television Center at the City University in New York, and started the Good News Communications Ministry. He also established the Episcopal ‘Communicate’ Workshops.

During his tenure at the University, Baehr worked closely on communications with academia, researching the impact of the media in education. The subject became a primary topic at the Annenberg Conference on Communication at Temple University, where Baehr received national recognition.

He was elected President of the Episcopal Radio & Television Foundation in 1979 and began conceptualizing what would later become the Christian Film and Television Commission.

In 1983, while serving on the Communications Board of the National Council of Churches and the National Religious Broadcasters, Baehr met George Heimrich. Heimrich was director of the Protestant Film Office in the 1950s and 1960s. Inspired by George Heimrich, Ted began contacting prominent members of the industry, and in 1986, formed the Christian Film and Television Commission. Ted did research and is now working on a book on the subject. Heimrich donated his Protestant Film Office files to the Christian Film and Television Commission where they now reside.

Since then, the Christian Film and Television Commission has served as a liaison, working with studio executives in understanding the needs and concerns of the general public for wholesome, family entertainment.

In 1985, noting a need to help advise parents (he is a husband and father of four children) and people concerned about morality in movies, Ted began publishing MOVIEGUIDE®, a biweekly magazine which reviews all movies from a biblical perspective. MOVIEGUIDE® is a reliable guide to moviegoers in helping them choose the good and reject the bad. MOVIEGUIDE’s very accurate content ratings, notes not only sex, violence and profanity, but also worldview and other important criteria.

From the detailed information that MOVIEGUIDE® is unique in gathering, Dr. Baehr prepares his "Report To The Entertainment Industry," an insightful box office analysis of the vast moral American audience. Information on negative or positive content, Biblical or anti-Biblical themes, increase or decrease of sex or violence, and over twenty other indicators is carefully tabulated and compared with box-office receipts for several years. Based on this empirical data, Dr. Baehr has been able to prove to Hollywood executives that the American public prefers wholesome, worthwhile, moral movies, and it would benefit these executives to support the production of more good movies.

Along with the yearly "Report To The Entertainment Industry," Dr. Baehr selects the ten best family friendly and the ten best morally edifying mature audience films of the year. Producers, directors, writers, and distribution companies associated with these movies are awarded plaques of recognition at an annual awards ceremony in Hollywood. Dr. Baehr also presents the coveted $25,000 Epiphany Prizes for the Most Inspiring Movies and Television Programs. These are cash prizes granted by the Templeton Foundation for movies and television programs which help people to know and understand God and His love.

By updating a guideline known as the Motion Picture and Television Production Code, the organization has secured support and signatures from more than one million individuals. Now armed with more than fifty years of statistical information, twenty years of research and support from leaders in the entertainment industry, Dr. Theodore Baehr is doing more than watching the world change - - he is using the media to change the media.