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.

Filmography of Lee H. Katzin

• Restraining Order (1999)
• The Break (1995)
• Walker, Texas Ranger (1993)
• Raven (1992)
• P.S. I Luv U (1991)
• The Outsiders (1990)
• Hoodwinked (1989)
• The Young Riders (1989)
• The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission (1988)
• In the Heat of the Night (1988)
• The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission (1987)
• World Gone Wild (1987)
• Spenser: For Hire (1985)
• MacGyver (1985)
• Miami Vice (1984)
• Partners in Crime (1984)
• Emergency Room (1983)
• The Yellow Rose (1983)
• Automan (1983)
• The Mississippi (1983)
• Journey Through the Black Sun (1982)
• The Neighborhood (1982)
• Chicago Story (1982)
• The Devlin Connection (1982)
• Death Ray 2000 (1981)
• McClain's Law (1981)
• Alien Attack (1980)
• Police Story: Confessions of a Lady Cop (1980)
• Samurai (1979)
• Zuma Beach (1978)
• Terror Out of the Sky (1978)
• The Bastard (1978)
• Man from Atlantis (1977)
• Relentless (1977)
• CHiPs (1977)
• The Quest (1976)
• The Quest (1976)
• The Last Survivors (1975)
• Sky Hei$t (1975)
• Space: 1999 (1975)