Lee H. Katzin
Born: 1935-04-12 in Detroit, Michigan, USA
Died: 2002-10-30
Known For: Directing
Biography
Lee H. Katzin (April 12, 1935 – October 30, 2002) was an American film director. He was born in Detroit, Michigan and became a TV director in the late 1960s for TV shows that included Bonanza, Mission: Impossible and Police Story. He also directed the 1971 feature film Le Mans. Starting in 1969, he did an array of theatrical films starting with Heaven with a Gun and other films like The Break and the cult classic What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice? In 1972, he directed the film The Salzburg Connection, which starred Barry Newman and Anna Karina. In 1975, he directed the launch episode "Breakaway", and other early episodes, of the Gerry Anderson live-action series Space: 1999. He also directed the pilots for the television series Man from Atlantis and Spenser: For Hire. He was primarily known as a prolific episodic television director, and he worked on series such as MacGyver, Police Story, The Young Riders, and Mission Impossible.
Filmography
2015
- Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans as Self (archive footage)
1999
- Restraining Order ... (Director)
1995
- The Break ... (Director)
1993
- Walker, Texas Ranger ... (Director)
1992
- Raven ... (Director)
1991
- P.S. I Luv U ... (Director)
1990
- The Outsiders ... (Director)
1989
- The Young Riders ... (Director)
- Hoodwinked ... (Director)
1988
- In the Heat of the Night ... (Director)
- The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission ... (Director)
1987
- World Gone Wild ... (Director)
- The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission ... (Director)
1985
- MacGyver ... (Director)
- Spenser: For Hire ... (Director)
- The Eagle and The Bear ... (Director)
1984
- Miami Vice ... (Director)
- Partners in Crime ... (Director)
1983
- Automan ... (Director)
- The Yellow Rose ... (Director)
- The Mississippi ... (Director)
- Emergency Room ... (Director)
1982
- The Devlin Connection ... (Director)
- Chicago Story ... (Director)
- Journey Through the Black Sun ... (Director)
- The Neighborhood ... (Director)
1981
- McClain's Law ... (Director)
- Death Ray 2000 ... (Director)
1980
- Alien Attack ... (Director)
- Police Story: Confessions of a Lady Cop ... (Director)
1979
- Samurai ... (Director)
1978
- The Bastard ... (Director)
- Zuma Beach ... (Director)
- Terror Out of the Sky ... (Director)
1977
- CHiPs ... (Director)
- Relentless ... (Director)
- Man from Atlantis ... (Director)
1975
- Space: 1999 ... (Director)
- The Last Survivors ... (Director)
- Space: 1999 ... (Director)
- Sky Hei$t ... (Director)
1974
- Savages ... (Director)
- Strange Homecoming ... (Director)
1973
- Police Story ... (Director)
- Voyage of the Yes ... (Director)
- The Stranger ... (Director)
- Ordeal ... (Director)
1972
- Visions... ... (Director)
- The Salzburg Connection ... (Director)
1971
- McMillan & Wife ... (Director)
- Le Mans ... (Director)
1970
- The Phynx ... (Director)
- Along Came a Spider ... (Director)
1969
- Heaven with a Gun ... (Director)
- What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice? ... (Director)
1968
- The Mod Squad ... (Director)
1967
- Mannix ... (Director)
- Hondo ... (Director)
- Hondo and the Apaches ... (Director)
- Mission: Impossible - The Slave ... (Director)
1966
- Mission: Impossible ... (Director)
- Felony Squad ... (Director)
- The Rat Patrol ... (Director)
- Ride Beyond Vengeance ... (Assistant Director)
1965
- The Wild Wild West ... (Director)
- Branded ... (Director)
1961
- Three Blondes In His Life ... (Assistant Director)