Andrew V. McLaglen
Born: 1920-07-28 in London, England, UK
Died: 2014-08-30
Known For: Directing
Biography
Andrew Victor McLaglen ((July 28, 1920 – August 30, 2014) was a British-American film and television director and former actor. Andrew McLaglen was born in London, the son of British actor Victor McLaglen and Enid Lamont. He was from a film family that included eight uncles and an aunt, and he grew up on movie sets with his parents as well as John Wayne and John Ford. After working as an assistant director on a few smaller films, Ford gave him the assistant director job on the film The Quiet Man (1952). After a few more assistant or second director jobs, McLaglen directed his first film Gun The Man Down in 1956 - a western B-movie with James Arness, Angie Dickinson and Harry Carey, Jr.. He went on to work extensively in television directing, directing episodes of Perry Mason (7), Gunslinger (5), Rawhide (6), and then 99 episodes of Have Gun – Will Travel, The Lieutenant (4), The Virginian (2), and 96 episodes of Gunsmoke. Returning to films - directing Shenandoah (1965) and The Rare Breed (1966), both with James Stewart; The Devil's Brigade (1968), Mitchell (1975), The Wild Geese (1978), North Sea Hijack (1979), and The Sea Wolves (1980), mostly westerns, but later specializing in war or action films, his last being Return from the River Kwai (1989). He also worked many times with John Wayne in such films as McLintock! (1963), Hellfighters (1968), The Undefeated (1969), Chisum (1970), and Cahill U.S. Marshal (1973). He also directed The Last Hard Men (1976) which starred Charlton Heston and James Coburn. McLaglen directed films in an assortment of categories, including crime, war, historical and comedy, but he was most frequently a director of Westerns, and would be among the last of the American film directors to specialize in the Western genre.
Filmography
2002
1991
- Eye of the Widow ... (Director)
- John Wayne - Eine amerikanische Legende as Self
1989
- Return from the River Kwai ... (Director)
1986
- On Wings of Eagles ... (Director)
1985
- The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission ... (Director)
1983
- Sahara ... (Director)
- Travis McGee ... (Director)
1982
- The Shadow Riders ... (Director)
- The Blue and the Gray ... (Director)
1980
- The Sea Wolves ... (Director)
- North Sea Hijack ... (Director)
1979
- Breakthrough ... (Director)
1978
- The Wild Geese ... (Director)
- Trail of Danger ... (Director)
- Stars' War: The Flight of the Wild Geese as Self
1977
- The Bluegrass Special ... (Director)
- The Fantastic Journey ... (Director)
- Murder at the World Series ... (Director)
- Code R ... (Director)
- The Fantastic Journey ... (Director)
1976
- Royce ... (Director)
- The Last Hard Men ... (Director)
- Banjo Hackett: Roamin' Free ... (Director)
1975
- Mitchell ... (Director)
- Stowaway to the Moon ... (Director)
- The Log of the Black Pearl ... (Director)
1974
- Amy Prentiss ... (Director)
1973
- Cahill: United States Marshal ... (Director)
1972
- Banacek ... (Director)
- Hec Ramsey ... (Director)
1971
- Fools' Parade ... (Director)
- Something Big ... (Director)
- One More Train to Rob ... (Director)
1970
- Chisum ... (Director)
1969
- The Undefeated ... (Director)
1968
- Bandolero! ... (Director)
- The Devil's Brigade ... (Director)
- Hellfighters ... (Director)
- The Ballad of Josie ... (Director)
1967
- The Way West ... (Director)
- Monkeys, Go Home! ... (Director)
1966
- The Rare Breed ... (Director)
1965
- Shenandoah ... (Director)
1963
- McLintock! ... (Director)
- The Lieutenant ... (Director)
- The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters ... (Director)
1962
- The Virginian ... (Director)
1961
- The Little Shepherd Of Kingdom Come ... (Director)
- Everglades ... (Director)
- The Wonderful World of Disney ... (Director)
- Gunslinger ... (Director)
1960
- Freckles ... (Director)
1959
- Rawhide ... (Director)
1957
- Perry Mason ... (Director)
- Have Gun, Will Travel ... (Director)
- The Abductors ... (Director)
1956
- Gun the Man Down ... (Director)
- Man in the Vault ... (Director)
- Seven Men from Now ... (Producer)
1955
- Gunsmoke ... (Director)
- Blood Alley ... (Assistant Director)
1954
- The High and the Mighty ... (Assistant Director)
- Track of the Cat ... (Assistant Director)
1953
- Hondo ... (Unit Production Manager)
- Island in the Sky ... (Assistant Director)
- Kansas Pacific ... (Assistant Director)
1952
- Hellgate ... (Assistant Director)
- Wild Stallion ... (Assistant Director)
1951
- Bullfighter and the Lady ... (Assistant Director)
1945
- Paris Underground as Sgt. McNair
1944
- Since You Went Away as Former Plowboy (uncredited)