Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Gender
Male
April 12, 1935
Died
October 30, 2002 (67 years old)
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.
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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
Acting
Directing
Walker, Texas Ranger
Director
1993
The Young Riders
Director
1989
The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission
Director
1988
In the Heat of the Night
Director
1988
World Gone Wild
Director
1987
The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission
Director
1987
MacGyver
Director
1985
Spenser: For Hire
Director
1985
Miami Vice
Director
1984
Automan
Director
1983
Terror Out of the Sky
Director
1978
CHiPs
Director
1977