Lee H. Katzin

Lee H. Katzin

Known For: Directing

Date Of Birth:1935-04-12

Place Of Birth:Detroit, Michigan, USA

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.

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Heaven with a Gun
Man From Atlantis
Le Mans
The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission
The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission
World Gone Wild
Zuma Beach
Terror Out of the Sky
Alien Attack
What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice?
Journey Through the Black Sun
Hondo and the Apaches
The Phynx
Savages
Restraining Order
Ordeal
Along Came a Spider
The Break
The Last Survivors
Sky Heist
The Bastard
Hoodwinked
The Stranger
Relentless
Emergency Room
The Salzburg Connection
Police Story: Confessions of a Lady Cop
The Quest
Visions...
Voyage of the Yes
Three Blondes In His Life
Death Ray 2000
Samurai
Ride Beyond Vengeance
The Neighborhood
Spazio 1999
Mission: Impossible - The Slave