Andrew V. McLaglen

Biography

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 i…

Directed

1. The Wild Geese (1978) — Director
2. McLintock! (1963) — Director
3. Chisum (1970) — Director
4. Shenandoah (1965) — Director
5. Cahill: United States Marshal (1973) — Director
6. Perry Mason (1957) — Director
7. Bandolero! (1968) — Director
8. The Undefeated (1969) — Director
9. North Sea Hijack (1980) — Director
10. Gunsmoke (1955) — Director
11. The Way West (1967) — Director
12. The Sea Wolves (1980) — Director
13. The Devil's Brigade (1968) — Director
14. The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission (1985) — Director
15. Hellfighters (1968) — Director
16. The Rare Breed (1966) — Director
17. The Last Hard Men (1976) — Director
18. Sahara (1983) — Director
19. The Shadow Riders (1982) — Director
20. Rawhide (1959) — Director
21. Mitchell (1975) — Director
22. Have Gun, Will Travel (1957) — Director
23. Breakthrough (1979) — Director
24. The Virginian (1962) — Director
25. Return from the River Kwai (1989) — Director
26. Fools' Parade (1971) — Director
27. The Blue and the Gray (1982) — Director
28. The Ballad of Josie (1968) — Director
29. Something Big (1971) — Director
30. Monkeys, Go Home! (1967) — Director
31. Banacek (1972) — Director
32. One More Train to Rob (1971) — Director
33. Man in the Vault (1956) — Director
34. Gun the Man Down (1956) — Director
35. The Fantastic Journey (1977) — Director
36. Stowaway to the Moon (1975) — Director
37. Eye of the Widow (1991) — Director
38. Freckles (1960) — Director
39. Hec Ramsey (1972) — Director
40. On Wings of Eagles (1986) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Since You Went Away (1944) — Former Plowboy (uncredited)
2. Paris Underground (1945) — Sgt. McNair
3. John Wayne - Eine amerikanische Legende (1991) — Self
4. The Quiet Man: The Joy of Ireland (2002) — Self
5. Stars' War: The Flight of the Wild Geese (1978) — Self
6. The Man Behind the Star (1973) — Self
7. Johnny, weil Du Geburtstag hast (1977) — Self