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Lee H. Katzin

Director, Additional Credits
Born April 12, 1935Died October 30, 2002 (67 years)
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.

Movies & Shows on Plex

  • Space: 1999
  • Renegade
  • The Young Riders
  • The Break

Known For

  • Le Mans
  • Mission: Impossible
  • MacGyver
  • What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice?
  • Walker, Texas Ranger
  • Miami Vice
  • The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission
  • The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission
  • Heaven with a Gun
  • World Gone Wild
  • The Rat Patrol
  • The Young Riders
  • Space: 1999
  • The Stranger
  • The Salzburg Connection
  • Spenser: For Hire
  • Terror Out of the Sky
  • The Wild Wild West
  • CHiPs
  • In the Heat of the Night
  • Ride Beyond Vengeance
  • The Phynx
  • Automan

Filmography

1999
1995
1994
Fortune Hunter (TV Series)
1993
1992
Renegade (TV Series)
1992
Raven (TV Series)
1991
P.S.I. Luv U (TV Series)
1991
The Exile (TV Series)
1990
The Outsiders (TV Series)
1989
1989
1988
1988
1987
1987
1985
MacGyver (TV Series)
1985
Spenser: For Hire (TV Series)
1985
1984
Partners in Crime (TV Series)
1984
Miami Vice (TV Series)
1983
Automan (TV Series)
1983
The Yellow Rose (TV Series)
1982
1982
1982
The Mississippi (TV Series)
1982
Chicago Story (TV Series)
1981
McClain's Law (TV Series)
1980
1980
1979
1978
1978
1978
The Bastard (TV Series)
1977
CHiPs (TV Series)
1977
1977
Man from Atlantis (TV Series)
1976
1976
The Quest (1976) (TV Series)
1976
1975
1975
1975
1974
1973
1973
Police Story (TV Series)
1973
1973
1972
1972
1971
McMillan and Wife (TV Series)
1971
1970
1970
1970
1969
1969
1968
The Mod Squad (TV Series)
1968
It Takes a Thief (TV Series)
1967
Mannix (TV Series)
1967
1967
Hondo (TV Series)
1966
1966
The Felony Squad (TV Series)
1966
The Rat Patrol (TV Series)
1965
The Wild Wild West (TV Series)
1965
Branded (TV Series)

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