Lee H. Katzin

Biography

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.

Directed

1. MacGyver (1985) — Director
2. Walker, Texas Ranger (1993) — Director
3. Miami Vice (1984) — Director
4. Mission: Impossible (1966) — Director
5. Le Mans (1971) — Director
6. Automan (1983) — Director
7. Space: 1999 (1975) — Director
8. CHiPs (1977) — Director
9. The Wild Wild West (1965) — Director
10. In the Heat of the Night (1988) — Director
11. Mannix (1967) — Director
12. The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission (1988) — Director
13. What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice? (1969) — Director
14. The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission (1987) — Director
15. Spenser: For Hire (1985) — Director
16. World Gone Wild (1987) — Director
17. The Mod Squad (1968) — Director
18. Heaven with a Gun (1969) — Director
19. McMillan & Wife (1971) — Director
20. The Young Riders (1989) — Director
21. The Rat Patrol (1966) — Director
22. Police Story (1973) — Director
23. Branded (1965) — Director
24. The Stranger (1973) — Director
25. Terror Out of the Sky (1978) — Director
26. The Salzburg Connection (1972) — Director
27. The Phynx (1970) — Director
28. Ordeal (1973) — Director
29. Alien Attack (1980) — Director
30. Savages (1974) — Director
31. The Outsiders (1990) — Director
32. Restraining Order (1999) — Director
33. Along Came a Spider (1970) — Director
34. The Break (1995) — Director
35. Hondo (1967) — Director
36. Zuma Beach (1978) — Director
37. Hondo and the Apaches (1967) — Director
38. Sky Hei$t (1975) — Director
39. Felony Squad (1966) — Director
40. Raven (1992) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans (2015) — Self (archive footage)