Lee H. Katzin
Known for: Directing
Born: April 12, 1935
Died: October 30, 2002
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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Filmography
39 movies · 30 TV shows, newest first
7.2
Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans
2015
4.0
Restraining Order
1999
6.1
The Break
1995
7.0
Walker, Texas Ranger
1993
7.8
Raven
1992
6.4
P.S. I Luv U
1991
7.6
The Outsiders
1990
6.3
Hoodwinked
1989
7.4
The Young Riders
1989
5.2
The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission
1988
7.5
In the Heat of the Night
1988
5.2
World Gone Wild
1987
5.0
The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission
1987
7.7
MacGyver
1985
6.9
Spenser: For Hire
198510.0
The Eagle and The Bear
1985
6.5
Partners in Crime
1984
7.5
Miami Vice
1984
7.8
Automan
1983
7.6
The Yellow Rose
1983
9.0
Emergency Room
1983
6.7
The Mississippi
1983
5.0
The Devlin Connection
1982
6.3
Journey Through the Black Sun
1982
7.0
The Neighborhood
1982
7.5
Chicago Story
1982
7.7
McClain's Law
1981
7.0
Death Ray 2000
1981
6.5
Alien Attack
1980
3.0
Police Story: Confessions of a Lady Cop
1980
9.0
Samurai
1979
5.6
Terror Out of the Sky
1978
5.3
Zuma Beach
1978
7.0
The Bastard
1978
6.8
CHiPs
1977
7.3
Relentless
1977
8.0
Man from Atlantis
1977
8.5
The Quest
1976
6.4
The Quest
1976
7.1
Space: 1999
1975
5.3
Sky Hei$t
1975
4.6
The Last Survivors
1975
6.7
Space: 1999
19758.5
Strange Homecoming
1974
6.5
Savages
1974
5.2
Ordeal
1973
7.0
Police Story
1973
3.9
The Stranger
1973
5.0
Voyage of the Yes
1973
10.0
Visions...
1972
5.8
The Salzburg Connection
1972
7.1
McMillan & Wife
1971
6.8
Le Mans
1971
3.6
The Phynx
1970
5.9
Along Came a Spider
1970
6.2
What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice?
1969
5.5
Heaven with a Gun
1969
6.1
The Mod Squad
1968
NR
Mission: Impossible - The Slave
1967
6.8
Mannix
1967
7.2
Hondo and the Apaches
1967
6.9
Hondo
1967
7.6
Mission: Impossible
1966
6.5
Felony Squad
1966
7.2
The Rat Patrol
1966
6.0
Ride Beyond Vengeance
1966
7.5
The Wild Wild West
1965
6.8
Branded
1965
4.4
Three Blondes In His Life
1961