Andrew V. McLaglen
Regista, Produttore, Attore
28 luglio 1920 — 30 agosto 2014 (94 anni)
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.
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.
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| 2015 | The Oscars · as Self - Director (in Memoriam) |
| 2012 | The Wild Geese Director · as Self |
| 2005 | Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That · as Self |
| 2002 | Dobe and a Company of Heroes · as Self |
| 1991 | John Wayne - Eine amerikanische Legende · as Self |
| 1985 | American Masters · as Self |
| 1977 | The Hollywood Greats · as Self |
| 1973 | The Man Behind the Star · as Self |
| 1970 | John Wayne and Chisum · as Self |
| 1962 | The Merv Griffin Show · as Self |
| 1950 | This Is Your Life (US) · as Self |
| 2007 | John Wayne: Behind the Scenes · as Cast |
| 1945 | Paris Underground · as Sgt. Mcnair |
| 1944 | Since You Went Away · as Former Plowboy (uncredited) |
| 1955 | Blood Alley · as Assistant Director |
| 1954 | Track of the Cat · as Assistant Director |
| 1954 | The High and the Mighty · as Assistant Director |
| 1953 | Hondo · as Unit Production Manager |
| 1953 | Island in the Sky · as Assistant Director |
| 1953 | Kansas Pacific · as Assistant DirectorSu Plex |
| 1952 | Hellgate · as Assistant Director |
| 1952 | Wild Stallion · as Assistant Director |
| 1951 | Bullfighter and the Lady · as Assistant Director |