Lee H. Katzin

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1935-04-12 (67 years old)

Deathday

2002-10-30

Place of Birth

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. In 1975, he directed the launch episode "Breakaway", and other early episodes, of the Gerry Ander...

Acting

2015

Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans

as Self (archive footage)

Production

1969

1977

1971

Le Mans

as Director

1987

World Gone Wild

as Director

1978

Zuma Beach

as Director

1978

1980

Alien Attack

as Director

1967

1970

The Phynx

as Director

1974

Savages

as Director

1999

1973

Ordeal

as Director

1970

1995

The Break

as Director

1975

1975

Sky Heist

as Director

1978

The Bastard

as Director

1989

Hoodwinked

as Director

1973

The Stranger

as Director

1977

Relentless

as Director

1983

Emergency Room

as Director

1976

The Quest

as Director

1972

Visions...

as Director

1973

1961

Three Blondes In His Life

as Assistant Director

1981

Death Ray 2000

as Director

1979

Samurai

as Director

1985

1966

Ride Beyond Vengeance

as Assistant Director

1982

The Neighborhood

as Director

1975

Space 1999

as Director

1974

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