- BIRTH 12/04/1935
- DEATH 30/10/2002
- Country United States
- MOVIE 1
- DIRECTOR 35
Lee H. Katzin
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.
Movie
Director (35)
Le Mans
Man From Atlantis
The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission
Heaven with a Gun
Zuma Beach
World Gone Wild
The Last Survivors
The Stranger
The Break
Terror Out of the Sky
Relentless
Samurai
The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission
