Andrew V. McLaglen

Directing·Jul 28, 1920·London, England, UK

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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.

Film	Credit
Eye of the Widow1991 · Director	Director
Return from the River Kwai1989 · Director	Director
The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission1985 · Director	Director
Sahara1983 · Director	Director
Travis McGee1983 · Director	Director
The Shadow Riders1982 · Director	Director
The Sea Wolves1980 · Director	Director
North Sea Hijack1980 · Director	Director
Breakthrough1979 · Director	Director
The Wild Geese1978 · Director	Director
Trail of Danger1978 · Director	Director
The Bluegrass Special1977 · Director	Director
Murder at the World Series1977 · Director	Director
The Fantastic Journey1977 · Director	Director
RRoyce1976 · Director	Director
Banjo Hackett: Roamin' Free1976 · Director	Director
The Last Hard Men1976 · Director	Director
Mitchell1975 · Director	Director
Stowaway to the Moon1975 · Director	Director
The Log of the Black Pearl1975 · Director	Director
Cahill: United States Marshal1973 · Director	Director
Something Big1971 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
Fools' Parade1971 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
One More Train to Rob1971 · Director	Director
Chisum1970 · Director	Director
The Undefeated1969 · Director	Director
Hellfighters1968 · Director	Director
Bandolero!1968 · Director	Director
The Devil's Brigade1968 · Director	Director
The Ballad of Josie1967 · Director	Director
The Way West1967 · Director	Director
Monkeys, Go Home!1967 · Director	Director
The Rare Breed1966 · Director	Director
Shenandoah1965 · Director	Director
McLintock!1963 · Director	Director
The Little Shepherd Of Kingdom Come1961 · Director	Director
Freckles1960 · Director	Director
The Abductors1957 · Director	Director
Man in the Vault1956 · Director	Director
Gun the Man Down1956 · Director	Director