Andrew V. McLaglen
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- July 28, 1920
- Died
- August 30, 2014 (aged 94)
- Birthplace
- London, England, UK
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 in war or action films, his last being Return from the River Kwai (1989). He also worked many times with John Wayne in such films as McLintock! (1963), Hellfighters (1968), The Undefeated (1969), Chisum (1970), and Cahill U.S. Marshal (1973). He also directed The Last Hard Men (1976) which starred Charlton Heston and James Coburn. McLaglen directed films in an assortment of categories, including crime, war, historical and comedy, but he was most frequently a director of Westerns, and would be among the last of the American film directors to specialize in the Western genre.
Known For
Filmography
Eye of the Widow
Movie · Director
Return from the River Kwai
Movie · Director
On Wings of Eagles
TV · Director · 2 eps
The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission
Movie · Director
Sahara
Movie · Director
Travis McGee
Movie · Director
The Shadow Riders
Movie · Director
The Blue and the Gray
TV · Director · 3 eps
The Sea Wolves
Movie · Director
North Sea Hijack
Movie · Director
Breakthrough
Movie · Director
The Wild Geese
Movie · Director
Trail of Danger
Movie · Director
The Bluegrass Special
Movie · Director
Murder at the World Series
Movie · Director
The Fantastic Journey
Movie · Director
The Fantastic Journey
TV · Director · 1 ep
Code R
TV · Director · 1 ep
The Last Hard Men
Movie · Director
Banjo Hackett: Roamin' Free
Movie · Director
Royce
Movie · Director
Mitchell
Movie · Director
Stowaway to the Moon
Movie · Director
The Log of the Black Pearl
Movie · Director
Amy Prentiss
TV · Director · 1 ep
Cahill: United States Marshal
Movie · Director
Hec Ramsey
TV · Director · 1 ep
Banacek
TV · Director · 1 ep
Fools' Parade
Movie · Director
One More Train to Rob
Movie · Director
Something Big
Movie · Director
Chisum
Movie · Director
The Undefeated
Movie · Director
The Devil's Brigade
Movie · Director
Hellfighters
Movie · Director
Bandolero!
Movie · Director
The Way West
Movie · Director
The Ballad of Josie
Movie · Director
Monkeys, Go Home!
Movie · Director
The Rare Breed
Movie · Director
Shenandoah
Movie · Director
McLintock!
Movie · Director
The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters
TV · Director · 1 ep
The Lieutenant
TV · Director · 4 eps
The Virginian
TV · Director · 1 ep
The Little Shepherd Of Kingdom Come
Movie · Director
Everglades
TV · Director · 1 ep
Gunslinger
TV · Director · 5 eps
The Wonderful World of Disney
TV · Director · 2 eps
Freckles
Movie · Director
Rawhide
TV · Director · 6 eps
The Abductors
Movie · Director
Perry Mason
TV · Director · 7 eps
Have Gun, Will Travel
TV · Director · 100 eps
Man in the Vault
Movie · Director
Gun the Man Down
Movie · Director
Blood Alley
Movie · Assistant Director
Gunsmoke
TV · Director · 93 eps
Track of the Cat
Movie · Assistant Director
The High and the Mighty
Movie · Assistant Director
Island in the Sky
Movie · Assistant Director
Kansas Pacific
Movie · Assistant Director
Wild Stallion
Movie · Assistant Director
Hellgate
Movie · Assistant Director
Bullfighter and the Lady
Movie · Assistant Director