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Lee H. Katzin
Detroit, Michigan, USA
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 inc…
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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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2026
Space: 1999 4K Double Bill - Breakaway and The Metamorph
Movie Director
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2015
Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1999
Restraining Order
Movie Director
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1995
The Break
Movie Director
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1993
Walker, Texas Ranger
TV show Director
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1992
Raven
TV show Director
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1991
P.S. I Luv U
TV show Director
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1990
The Outsiders
TV show Director
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1989
Hoodwinked
Movie Director
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1989
The Young Riders
TV show Director
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1988
The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission
Movie Director
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1988
In the Heat of the Night
TV show Director
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1987
World Gone Wild
Movie Director
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1987
The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission
Movie Director
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1985
MacGyver
TV show Director
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1985
Spenser: For Hire
TV show Director
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1985
The Eagle and The Bear
Movie Director
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1984
Partners in Crime
TV show Director
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1984
Miami Vice
TV show Director
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1983
Automan
TV show Director
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1983
The Yellow Rose
TV show Director
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1983
Emergency Room
Movie Director
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1983
The Mississippi
TV show Director
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1982
The Devlin Connection
TV show Director
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1982
Journey Through the Black Sun
Movie Director
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1982
The Neighborhood
Movie Director
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1982
Chicago Story
TV show Director
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1981
McClain's Law
TV show Director
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1981
Death Ray 2000
Movie Director
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1980
Alien Attack
Movie Director
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1980
Police Story: Confessions of a Lady Cop
Movie Director
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1979
Samurai
Movie Director
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1978
Terror Out of the Sky
Movie Director
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1978
Zuma Beach
Movie Director
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1978
The Bastard
TV show Director
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1977
CHiPs
TV show Director
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1977
Relentless
Movie Director
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1977
Man from Atlantis
Movie Director
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1976
The Quest
TV show Director
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1976
The Quest
Movie Director
