LHK

Personal Info

Known For

Directing

Known Credits

Gender

Male

Birthday

1935-04-12

Deathday

2002-10-30 (67 years old)

Place of Birth

Detroit, Michigan, USA

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.

Known For

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Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans

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Acting

2015

Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans as Self (archive footage)

Directing

1999

Restraining Order as Director

1995

The Break as Director

1993

Walker, Texas Ranger as Director

1992

Raven as Director

1991

P.S. I Luv U as Director

1990

The Outsiders as Director

1989		Hoodwinked as Director
1989		The Young Riders as Director

1988		The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission as Director
1988		In the Heat of the Night as Director

1987		World Gone Wild as Director
1987		The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission as Director

1985		MacGyver as Director
1985		Spenser: For Hire as Director
1985		The Eagle and The Bear as Director

1984		Partners in Crime as Director
1984		Miami Vice as Director

1983		Automan as Director
1983		The Yellow Rose as Director
1983		Emergency Room as Director
1983		The Mississippi as Director

1982		The Devlin Connection as Director
1982		Journey Through the Black Sun as Director
1982		The Neighborhood as Director
1982		Chicago Story as Director

1981		McClain's Law as Director
1981		Death Ray 2000 as Director

1980		Alien Attack as Director
1980		Police Story: Confessions of a Lady Cop as Director

1979		A Man Called Sloane as Director
1979		Samurai as Director

1978		Terror Out of the Sky as Director
1978		Zuma Beach as Director
1978		The Bastard as Director

1977		CHiPs as Director
1977		Relentless as Director
1977		Man From Atlantis as Director

1976		The Quest as Director
1976		The Quest as Director

1975		Space: 1999 as Director
1975		Sky Heist as Director
1975		The Last Survivors as Director
1975		Space 1999 as Director

1974		Strange Homecoming as Director
1974		Savages as Director

1973		Ordeal as Director
1973		Police Story as Director
1973		The Stranger as Director
1973		Voyage of the Yes as Director

1972		Visions... as Director
1972		The Salzburg Connection as Director

1971		McMillan & Wife as Director
1971		Le Mans as Director

1970		The Phynx as Director
1970		Along Came a Spider as Director

1969		What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice? as Director
1969		Heaven with a Gun as Director

1968

The Mod Squad as Director

1967		Mannix as Director
1967		Hondo and the Apaches as Director
1967		Hondo as Director

1966		Mission: Impossible as Director
1966		Felony Squad as Director
1966		The Rat Patrol as Director
1966		Ride Beyond Vengeance as Assistant Director

1965		The Wild Wild West as Director
1965		Branded as Director

1961

Three Blondes In His Life as Assistant Director