Lee H. Katzin

Directing·Apr 12, 1935·Detroit, Michigan, USA

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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.

Film	Credit
Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans2015 · Self (archive footage)	Self (archive footage)
Restraining Order1999 · Director	Director
The Break1995 · Director	Director
Hoodwinked1989 · Director	Director
The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission1988 · Director	Director
World Gone Wild1987 · Director	Director
The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission1987 · Director	Director
TThe Eagle and The Bear1985 · Director	Director
Emergency Room1983 · Director	Director
Journey Through the Black Sun1982 · Director	Director
The Neighborhood1982 · Director	Director
Death Ray 20001981 · Director	Director
Alien Attack1980 · Director	Director
Police Story: Confessions of a Lady Cop1980 · Director	Director
Samurai1979 · Director	Director
Terror Out of the Sky1978 · Director	Director
Zuma Beach1978 · Director	Director
Relentless1977 · Director	Director
Man from Atlantis1977 · Director	Director
The Quest1976 · Director	Director
Sky Hei$t1975 · Director	Director
The Last Survivors1975 · Director	Director
Space: 19991975 · Director	Director
SStrange Homecoming1974 · Director	Director
Savages1974 · Director	Director
Ordeal1973 · Director	Director
The Stranger1973 · Director	Director
Voyage of the Yes1973 · Director	Director
Visions...1972 · Director	Director
The Salzburg Connection1972 · Director	Director
Le Mans1971 · Director	Director
The Phynx1970 · Director	Director
Along Came a Spider1970 · Director	Director
What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice?1969 · Director	Director
Heaven with a Gun1969 · Director	Director
Mission: Impossible - The Slave1967 · Director	Director
Hondo and the Apaches1967 · Director	Director