Lee H. Katzin
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- April 12, 1935
- Died
- October 30, 2002 (aged 67)
- Birthplace
- Detroit, Michigan, USA
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
Filmography
Space: 1999 4K Double Bill - Breakaway and The Metamorph
Movie · Director
Restraining Order
Movie · Director
The Break
Movie · Director
Walker, Texas Ranger
TV · Director · 1 ep
Raven
TV · Director · 1 ep
P.S. I Luv U
TV · Director · 1 ep
The Outsiders
TV · Director · 1 ep
Hoodwinked
Movie · Director
The Young Riders
TV · Director · 3 eps
The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission
Movie · Director
In the Heat of the Night
TV · Director · 1 ep
The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission
Movie · Director
World Gone Wild
Movie · Director
The Eagle and The Bear
Movie · Director
Spenser: For Hire
TV · Director · 2 eps
MacGyver
TV · Director · 4 eps
Miami Vice
TV · Director · 2 eps
Partners in Crime
TV · Director · 1 ep
Emergency Room
Movie · Director
The Yellow Rose
TV · Director · 10 eps
Automan
TV · Director · 1 ep
The Mississippi
TV · Director · 2 eps
Journey Through the Black Sun
Movie · Director
The Neighborhood
Movie · Director
Chicago Story
TV · Director · 1 ep
The Devlin Connection
TV · Director · 2 eps
Death Ray 2000
Movie · Director
McClain's Law
TV · Director · 1 ep
Alien Attack
Movie · Director
Police Story: Confessions of a Lady Cop
Movie · Director
Samurai
Movie · Director
Zuma Beach
Movie · Director
Terror Out of the Sky
Movie · Director
The Bastard
TV · Director · 2 eps
Man from Atlantis
Movie · Director
Relentless
Movie · Director
CHiPs
TV · Director · 1 ep
The Quest
Movie · Director
The Quest
TV · Director · 16 eps
The Last Survivors
Movie · Director
Sky Hei$t
Movie · Director
Space: 1999
Movie · Director
Space: 1999
TV · Director · 2 eps
Savages
Movie · Director
Strange Homecoming
Movie · Director
Ordeal
Movie · Director
The Stranger
Movie · Director
Voyage of the Yes
Movie · Director
Police Story
TV · Director · 5 eps
The Salzburg Connection
Movie · Director
Visions...
Movie · Director
Le Mans
Movie · Director
McMillan & Wife
TV · Director · 1 ep
The Phynx
Movie · Director
Along Came a Spider
Movie · Director
Heaven with a Gun
Movie · Director
What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice?
Movie · Director
The Mod Squad
TV · Director · 2 eps
Hondo and the Apaches
Movie · Director
Mission: Impossible - The Slave
Movie · Director
Mannix
TV · Director · 1 ep
Hondo
TV · Director · 5 eps
Ride Beyond Vengeance
Movie · Assistant Director
Felony Squad
TV · Director · 2 eps
Mission: Impossible
TV · Director · 11 eps
The Rat Patrol
TV · Director · 7 eps
The Wild Wild West
TV · Director · 2 eps
Branded
TV · Director · 6 eps
Three Blondes In His Life
Movie · Assistant Director