Born 1935 (age 67) · Detroit, Michigan, USA
Appears in 69 titles

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.

Filmography

Le Mans
6.8
Le Mans
1971
Director
What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice?
The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission
The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission
World Gone Wild
5.2
World Gone Wild
1987
Director
Heaven with a Gun
5.5
Heaven with a Gun
1969
Director
The Stranger
3.8
The Stranger
1973
Director
Terror Out of the Sky
5.4
Terror Out of the Sky
1978
Director
The Salzburg Connection
5.8
The Salzburg Connection
1972
Director
Ordeal
5.2
Ordeal
1973
Director
The Phynx
3.7
The Phynx
1970
Director
Alien Attack
6.5
Alien Attack
1980
Director
Savages
6.5
Savages
1974
Director
Restraining Order
4.0
Restraining Order
1999
Director
The Break
6.1
The Break
1995
Director
Zuma Beach
5.3
Zuma Beach
1978
Director
Hondo and the Apaches
7.4
Hondo and the Apaches
1967
Director
Along Came a Spider
5.6
Along Came a Spider
1970
Director
Sky Hei$t
5.3
Sky Hei$t
1975
Director
Space: 1999
6.7
Space: 1999
1975
Director