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.
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Movies (40)
Space: 1999 4K Double Bill - Breakaway and The Metamorph
2026 · Director
Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans
2015 · Self (archive footage)
Restraining Order
1999 · Director
The Break
1995 · Director
Hoodwinked
1989 · Director
The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission
1988 · Director
World Gone Wild
1987 · Director
The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission
1987 · Director
The Eagle and The Bear
1985 · Director
Emergency Room
1983 · Director
Journey Through the Black Sun
1982 · Director
The Neighborhood
1982 · Director
Death Ray 2000
1981 · Director
Alien Attack
1980 · Director
Police Story: Confessions of a Lady Cop
1980 · Director
Samurai
1979 · Director
Terror Out of the Sky
1978 · Director
Zuma Beach
1978 · Director
Relentless
1977 · Director
Man from Atlantis
1977 · Director
The Quest
1976 · Director
Sky Hei$t
1975 · Director
The Last Survivors
1975 · Director
Space: 1999
1975 · Director
Strange Homecoming
1974 · Director
Savages
1974 · Director
Ordeal
1973 · Director
The Stranger
1973 · Director
Voyage of the Yes
1973 · Director
Visions...
1972 · Director
The Salzburg Connection
1972 · Director
Le Mans
1971 · Director
The Phynx
1970 · Director
Along Came a Spider
1970 · Director
What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice?
1969 · Director
Heaven with a Gun
1969 · Director
Mission: Impossible - The Slave
1967 · Director
Hondo and the Apaches
1967 · Director
Ride Beyond Vengeance
1966 · Assistant Director
Three Blondes In His Life
1961 · Assistant Director
TV shows (30)
Walker, Comisario de Texas
1993 · Director
Raven
1992 · Director
P.S. I Luv U
1991 · Director
The Outsiders
1990 · Director
The Young Riders
1989 · Director
In the Heat of the Night
1988 · Director
MacGyver
1985 · Director
Spenser: For Hire
1985 · Director
Partners in Crime
1984 · Director
Miami Vice
1984 · Director
Automan
1983 · Director
The Yellow Rose
1983 · Director
The Mississippi
1983 · Director
The Devlin Connection
1982 · Director
Chicago Story
1982 · Director
McClain's Law
1981 · Director
The Bastard
1978 · Director
CHiPs
1977 · Director
The Quest
1976 · Director
Space: 1999
1975 · Director
Police Story
1973 · Director
McMillan & Wife
1971 · Director
The Mod Squad
1968 · Director
Mannix
1967 · Director
Hondo
1967 · Director
Mission: Impossible
1966 · Director
Felony Squad
1966 · Director
The Rat Patrol
1966 · Director
The Wild Wild West
1965 · Director
Branded
1965 · Director