Lee H. Katzin

Lee H. Katzin (April 12, 1935 – October 30, 2002) was an American film director.

Early life and education 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.

Career 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. He died of cancer at the age of 67 in 2002 in Beverly Hills, California.

Filmography +Film Year Title Director Assistantdirector Notes 1961 Five Bold Women Production coordinator 1961 Three Blondes in His Life 1966 Ride Beyond Vengeance 1969 Heaven with a Gun 1969 What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice? 1970 The Phynx 1971 Le Mans 1972 The Salzburg Connection 1987 World Gone Wild 1995 The Break 1999 Restraining Order

+Television films Year Title Director Assistantdirector Notes 1961 Las Vegas Beat Second unit assistant 1964 Fanfare for a Death Scene 1967 Hondo and the Apaches 1970 Along Came a Spider 1972 Visions... 1973 Voyage of the Yes 1973 The Stranger 1973 Ordeal 1974 Savages 1974 Strange Homecoming 1975 The Last Survivors 1975 Sky Heist 1976 The Quest 1976 Alien Attack 1977 Relentless 1977 McLaren's Riders 1978 Zuma Beach 1978 Terror Out of the Sky 1979 Samurai 1980 Death Ray 2000 1980 Police Story: Confessions of a Lady Cop 1981 Hardcase 1982 The Neighborhood 1982 Journey Through the Black Sun 1983 Emergency Room 1985 The Eagle and the Bear 1985 The Adventures of Alexander Hawkins 1985 Soloman's Universe 1987 The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission 1988 The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission 1989 Jake Spanner, Private Eye