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Lee H. Katzin

Lee H. Katzin

Director · 1935–2002 · Detroit, Michigan, USA

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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 67

2020s

  1. 2026

    Space: 1999 4K Double Bill - Breakaway and The Metamorph

    Director

1990s

  1. 1999

    Restraining Order

    Director

  2. 1995

    The Break

    Director

  3. 1993

    Walker, Texas Ranger

    Director

    61
  4. 1992

    Raven

    Director

  5. 1991

    P.S. I Luv U

    Director

  6. 1990

    The Outsiders

    Director

1980s

  1. 1989

    Hoodwinked

    Director

  2. The Young Riders

    Director

    76
  3. 1988

    The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission

    Director

    51

  4. In the Heat of the Night

    Director

    76
  5. 1987

    World Gone Wild

    Director

    51

  6. The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission

    Director

    51
  7. 1985

    MacGyver

    Director

    76

  8. Spenser: For Hire

    Director

    72
  9. 1984

    Partners in Crime

    Director

  10. Miami Vice

    Director

    75
  11. 1983

    Automan

    Director

    71

  12. The Yellow Rose

    Director

  13. Emergency Room

    Director

  14. The Mississippi

    Director

  15. 1982

    The Devlin Connection

    Director

  16. Journey Through the Black Sun

    Director

  17. The Neighborhood

    Director

  18. Chicago Story

    Director

  19. 1981

    McClain's Law

    Director

  20. Death Ray 2000

    Director

  21. 1980

    Alien Attack

    Director

  22. Police Story: Confessions of a Lady Cop

    Director

1970s

  1. 1979

    Samurai

    Director

  2. 1978

    Terror Out of the Sky

    Director

  3. Zuma Beach

    Director

  4. The Bastard

    Director

  5. 1977

    CHiPs

    Director

    66

  6. Relentless

    Director

  7. Man from Atlantis

    Director

  8. 1976

    The Quest

    Director

  9. The Quest

    Director

  10. 1975

    Space: 1999

    Director

    72

  11. Sky Hei$t

    Director

  12. The Last Survivors

    Director

  13. Space: 1999

    Director

  14. 1974

    Savages

    Director

  15. 1973

    Ordeal

    Director

  16. Police Story

    Director

    74

  17. The Stranger

    Director

  18. Voyage of the Yes

    Director

  19. 1972

    Visions...

    Director

  20. The Salzburg Connection

    Director

  21. 1971

    McMillan & Wife

    Director

    71

  22. Le Mans

    Director

    65
  23. 1970

    The Phynx

    Director

  24. Along Came a Spider

    Director

1960s

  1. 1969

    What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice?

    Director

  2. Heaven with a Gun

    Director

  3. 1968

    The Mod Squad

    Director

    67
  4. 1967

    Mission: Impossible - The Slave

    Director

  5. Mannix

    Director

    73

  6. Hondo and the Apaches

    Director

  7. Hondo

    Director

  8. 1966

    Mission: Impossible

    Director

    78

  9. Felony Squad

    Director

  10. The Rat Patrol

    Director

    73

  11. Ride Beyond Vengeance

    Assistant Director

  12. 1965

    The Wild Wild West

    Director

    80

  13. Branded

    Director

    72
  14. 1961

    Three Blondes In His Life

    Assistant Director

Appearances1

2010s

  1. 2015

    Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans

    Self (archive footage)