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Lee H. Katzin
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.
As director
Restraining Order
The Break
Hoodwinked
The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission
The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission
World Gone Wild
The Eagle and The Bear
Emergency Room
Journey Through the Black Sun
The Neighborhood
Death Ray 2000
Alien Attack
Police Story: Confessions of a Lady Cop
Samurai
Zuma Beach
Terror Out of the Sky
Man from Atlantis
Relentless
The Quest
The Last Survivors
Sky Hei$t
Space: 1999
Savages
Strange Homecoming
Ordeal
The Stranger
Voyage of the Yes
The Salzburg Connection
Visions...
Le Mans
