04/12/1935
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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Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans (2015) as Self (archive footage) |
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Restraining Order (1999) Director |
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The Break (1995) Director |
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Hoodwinked (1989) Director |
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The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission (1988) Director |
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World Gone Wild (1987) Director |
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The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission (1987) Director |
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The Eagle and The Bear (1985) Director |
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Emergency Room (1983) Director |
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Journey Through the Black Sun (1982) Director |
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The Neighborhood (1982) Director |
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Death Ray 2000 (1981) Director |
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Alien Attack (1980) Director |
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Police Story: Confessions of a Lady Cop (1980) Director |
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Samurai (1979) Director |
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Terror Out of the Sky (1978) Director |
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Zuma Beach (1978) Director |
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Relentless (1977) Director |
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Man from Atlantis (1977) Director |
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The Quest (1976) Director |
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Sky Hei$t (1975) Director |
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The Last Survivors (1975) Director |
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Spazio: 1999 (1975) Director |
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Strange Homecoming (1974) Director |
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Savages (1974) Director |
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Ordeal (1973) Director |
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The Stranger (1973) Director |
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Voyage of the Yes (1973) Director |
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Visions... (1972) Director |
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The Salzburg Connection (1972) Director |
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Le Mans (1971) Director |
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The Phynx (1970) Director |
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Along Came a Spider (1970) Director |
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What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice? (1969) Director |
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Heaven with a Gun (1969) Director |
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Mission: Impossible - The Slave (1967) Director |
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Hondo and the Apaches (1967) Director |
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Ride Beyond Vengeance (1966) Assistant Director |
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Three Blondes In His Life (1961) Assistant Director |