Lee H. Katzin

Lee H. Katzin
Born	12 April 1935
Died	30 October 2002
Nationality	American
Occupation	Director

Lee H. Katzin (12 April 1935 - 30 October 2002) was an American director.

Early life and education

He was born in Detroit, Michigan, and became a TV director in the late 1960s, including episodes for Bonanza, Mission: Impossible and Police Story. He also directed the 1971 feature film Le Mans.

Career

Starting in 1969, he did an array of theatrical film 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.^[1]

In 1975, he directed the launch episode "Breakaway", and other early episodes, of the Gerry Anderson live-action series Space: 1999. He was the creator of the short-lived American science fiction television series Man from Atlantis in 1977 and the following year wrote the pilot episode for a comedy, Zuma Beach with Halloween director John Carpenter, although this was never commissioned as a series. He also directed many episodes of the 1980s television series MacGyver.

He died of cancer at the age of 67 in 2002 in Beverly Hills, California.

Partial filmography

What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice? (1969)
Heaven With a Gun (1969)
The Phynx (1970)
Le Mans (1971)
The Salzburg Connection (1972)
The Stranger (1973)
Savages (1974)
Zuma Beach (1978)
The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission (1988)
World Gone Wild (1988)
The Break (1995)
Restraining Order (2000)

References

↑ Greenspun, Roger. "NY Times.com: The Salzburg Connection". nytimes.com. Retrieved 2010-01-30.

External links

Lee H. Katzin on IMDb

Films directed by Lee H. Katzin

Heaven with a Gun (1969)
What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice? (1969)
The Phynx (1970)
Le Mans (1971)
The Salzburg Connection (1972)
The Stranger (1973)
Savages (1974)
The Captive: The Longest Drive 2 (1976)
The Bastard (1978)
Zuma Beach (1978)
Police Story: Confessions of a Lady Cop (1980)
The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission (1987)
The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission (1988)
World Gone Wild (1988)
Jake Spanner, Private Eye (1989)
The Break (1995)
Restraining Order (1999)

Space: 1999

Characters

Year One

Year Two

"The Metamorph"
"One Moment of Humanity"
"All That Glisters"
"Journey to Where"
"The Taybor"
"The Mark of Archanon"
"Brian the Brain"
"New Adam, New Eve"
"Catacombs of the Moon"
"The AB Chrysalis"
"Seed of Destruction"
"The Beta Cloud"
"Space Warp"
"The Bringers of Wonder"
- "Part One"
- "Part Two"
"The Lambda Factor"
"The Seance Spectre"
"Devil's Planet"
"The Dorcons"

See also

Category

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series

Jack Smight for "Eddie" (1959)
Robert Mulligan for The Moon and Sixpence (1960)
George Schaefer for Macbeth (1961)
Franklin J. Schaffner (1962)
Stuart Rosenberg for "The Madman" (1963)
Tom Gries for "Who Do You Kill?" (1964)
Paul Bogart for "The 700 Year Old Gang" (1965)
Sydney Pollack for "The Game" (1966)
Alex Segal for Death of a Salesman (1967)
Lee H. Katzin (1968)
David Greene for "The People Next Door" (1969)
Paul Bogart for "Shadow Game" (1970)
Daryl Duke for "The Day the Lion Died" / Fielder Cook for "The Price" (1971)
Alexander Singer for "The Invasion of Kevin Ireland" (1972)
Jerry Thorpe for "An Eye for an Eye" / Joseph Sargent for "The Marcus-Nelson Murders" (1973)
John Korty for The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman / Robert Butler for "Part III" (1974)
Bill Bain for "A Sudden Storm" (1975)
David Greene for Episode 8 (Rich Man, Poor Man) (1976)
David Greene for Roots ("Part 1") (1977)
Marvin J. Chomsky for Holocaust (1978)
Jackie Cooper for "Pilot" (The White Shadow) (1979)
Roger Young for "Cop" (1980)
Robert Butler for "Hill Street Station"(1981)
Harry Harris for "To Soar and Never Falter" (1982)
Jeff Bleckner for "Life in the Minors" (1983)
Corey Allen for "Goodbye, Mr. Scripps" (1984)
Karen Arthur for "Heat" (1985)
Georg Stanford Brown for "Parting Shots" (1986)
Gregory Hoblit for "Pilot" (L.A. Law) (1987)
Mark Tinker for "Weigh In, Way Out" (1988)
Robert Altman for "The Boiler Room" (1989)
Thomas Carter for "Promises to Keep" / Scott Winant for "The Go-Between" (1990)
Thomas Carter for "In Confidence" (1991)
Eric Laneuville for "All God's Children" (1992)
Barry Levinson for "Gone for Goode" (1993)
Daniel Sackheim for "Tempest in a C-Cup" (1994)
Mimi Leder for "Love's Labor Lost" (1995)
Jeremy Kagan for "Leave of Absence" (1996)
Mark Tinker for "Where's 'Swaldo?" (1997)
Mark Tinker for "Pilot" (Brooklyn South) / Paris Barclay for "Brain Salad Surgery" (1998)
Paris Barclay for "Hearts and Souls" (1999)
Thomas Schlamme for "Pilot" (The West Wing) (2000)
Thomas Schlamme for "In the Shadow of Two Gunmen: Part I" & "Part II" (2001)
Alan Ball for "Pilot" (Six Feet Under) (2002)
Christopher Misiano for "Twenty Five" (2003)
Walter Hill for "Deadwood" (2004)
J. J. Abrams for "Pilot" (Lost) (2005)
Jon Cassar for "Day 5: 7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m." (2006)
Alan Taylor for "Kennedy and Heidi" (2007)
Greg Yaitanes for "House's Head" (2008)
Rod Holcomb for "And in the End..." (2009)
Steve Shill for "The Getaway" (2010)
Martin Scorsese for "Boardwalk Empire" (2011)
Tim Van Patten for "To the Lost" (2012)
David Fincher for "Chapter 1" (2013)
Cary Joji Fukunaga for "Who Goes There" (2014)
David Nutter for "Mother's Mercy" (2015)
Miguel Sapochnik for "Battle of the Bastards" (2016)
Reed Morano for "Offred" (2017)
Stephen Daldry for "Paterfamilias" (2018)

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