Lee H. Katzin

Lee H. Katzin
Lee H. Katzin
Born	April 12, 1935; Beverly Hills, California, U.S.
Occupation	Director

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

Early life and education

He was born in Detroit, Michigan and became a TV director in the late 1960s for TV shows that included

Le Mans

.

Career

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.^[1]

In 1975, he directed the launch episode "

Mission Impossible

.

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

Filmography

Film
Year	Title	Director	Assistant director	Notes
1961	Five Bold Women	No	No	Production coordinator
1961	Three Blondes in His Life	No	Yes
1966	Ride Beyond Vengeance	No	Yes
1969	Heaven with a Gun	Yes	No
1969	What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice?	Yes	No
1970	The Phynx	Yes	No
1971	Le Mans	Yes	No
1972	The Salzburg Connection	Yes	No
1987	World Gone Wild	Yes	No
1995	The Break	Yes	No
1999	Restraining Order	Yes	No

Television films
Year	Title	Director	Assistant director	Notes
1961	Las Vegas Beat	No	No	Second unit assistant
1964	Fanfare for a Death Scene	No	Yes
1967	Hondo and the Apaches	Yes	No
1970	Along Came a Spider	Yes	No
1972	Visions...	Yes	No
1973	Voyage of the Yes	Yes	No
1973	The Stranger	Yes	No
1973	Ordeal	Yes	No
1974	Savages	Yes	No
1974	Strange Homecoming	Yes	No
1975	The Last Survivors	Yes	No
1975	Sky Heist	Yes	No
1976	The Quest	Yes	No
1976	Alien Attack	Yes	No
1977	Relentless	Yes	No
1977	McLaren's Riders	Yes	No
1978	Zuma Beach	Yes	No
1978	Terror Out of the Sky	Yes	No
1979	Samurai	Yes	No
1980	Death Ray 2000	Yes	No
1980	Police Story: Confessions of a Lady Cop	Yes	No
1981	Hardcase	Yes	No
1982	The Neighborhood	Yes	No
1982	Journey Through the Black Sun	Yes	No
1983	Emergency Room	Yes	No
1985	The Eagle and the Bear	Yes	No
1985	The Adventures of Alexander Hawkins	Yes	No
1985	Soloman's Universe	Yes	No
1987	The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission	Yes	No
1988	The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission	Yes	No
1989	Jake Spanner, Private Eye	Yes	No

Television series
Year	Title	Director	Assistant director	Notes
1961	The Rebel	No	Yes	Season 2 (8 episodes)
1963	Stoney Burke	No	Yes	Season 1 (2 episodes)
1963	The Outer Limits	No	Yes	Season 1 (9 episodes)
1964–65	Rawhide	No	Yes	Season 7 (13 episodes)
1965	Branded	Yes	Yes	Season 1–2 (8 episodes) (AD); Season 2 (6 episodes) (D)
1965	The Patty Duke Show	No	Yes	Season 3 (1 episode)
1966	The Wild Wild West	Yes	No	Season 1 (2 episodes)
1966	The Wild Wild West	No	No	Unit production manager – Season 2 (7 episodes)
1966–67	The Rat Patrol	Yes	No	Season 1 (7 episodes)
1967	The Felony Squad	Yes	No	Season 1 (2 episodes)
1967–68	Mission: Impossible	Yes	No	Season 1–3 (11 episodes)
1967	Hondo	Yes	No	Season 1 (4 episodes)
1967	Mannix	Yes	No	Season 1 (1 episode)
1968	It Takes a Thief	Yes	No	Season 1 (1 episode)
1968	The Mod Squad	Yes	No	Season 1 (2 episodes)
1970	Storefront Lawyers	Yes	No	Season 1 (1 episode)
1974	McMillan & Wife	Yes	No	Season 3 (1 episode)
1975	Space: 1999	Yes	No	Season 1 (2 episodes)
1975–80	Police Story	Yes	No	Season 3, 5–6 (5 episodes)
1977	Man from Atlantis	Yes	No	Season 1 (1 episode)
1978	The Bastard	Yes	No	Miniseries
1982	McClain's Law	Yes	No	Season 1 (1 episodes)
1982	Chicago Story	Yes	No	Season 1 (1 episode)
1982	CHiPs	Yes	No	Season 5 (1 episode)
1982	The Devlin Connection	Yes	No	Season 1 (1 episode)
1983	The Mississippi	Yes	No	Season 1 (2 episodes)
1983	Automan	Yes	No	Season 1 (1 episode)
1983–84	The Yellow Rose	Yes	No	Season 1 (10 episodes)
1984	Partners in Crime	Yes	No	Season 1 (1 episode)
1984	Miami Vice	Yes	No	Season 1 (2 episodes)
1985	Spenser: For Hire	Yes	No	Season 1 (1 episode)
1985	MacGyver	Yes	No	Season 1 (1 episode)
1985	MacGyver	No	No	Opening gambit director – Season 1 (4 episodes)
1988–89	In the Heat of the Night	Yes	No	Season 2 (3 episodes)
1989–92	The Young Riders	Yes	No	Season 1, 3 (6 episodes)
1990	The Outsiders	Yes	No	Season 1 (1 episode)
1991	The Exile	Yes	No	Season 1 (1 episode)
1991	P.S. I Luv U	Yes	No	Season 1 (1 episode)
1993	Raven	Yes	No	Season 2 (1 episode)
1994	Walker, Texas Ranger	Yes	No	Season 2 (1 episode)
1994	Renegade	Yes	No	Season 3 (1 episode)
1994	Fortune Hunter	Yes	No	Season 1 (2 episodes)

References

^ Greenspun, Roger (2012). "NY Times.com: The Salzburg Connection". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Archived from the original on October 26, 2012. Retrieved January 30, 2010.

External links

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[nytimes-1] Greenspun, Roger (2012). "NY Times.com: The Salzburg Connection". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Archived from the original on October 26, 2012. Retrieved January 30, 2010.

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v t e Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series
1950s	Jack Smight for "Eddie" (1959)
1960s	Robert Mulligan for The Moon and Sixpence (1960) George Schaefer for Macbeth (1961) Franklin J. Schaffner for The Defenders (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) Paul Bogart for "Dear Friends" (1968) David Greene for "The People Next Door" (1969)
1970s	Paul Bogart for "Shadow Game" (1970) Daryl Duke for "The Day the Lion Died" (1971) Alexander Singer for "The Invasion of Kevin Ireland" (1972) Jerry Thorpe for "An Eye for an Eye" (1973) Robert Butler for "Part III" (1974) Bill Bain for "A Sudden Storm" (1975) David Greene for "Part I: Chapters 1 & 2" (Rich Man, Poor Man) (1976) David Greene for "Part 1" (Roots) (1977) Marvin J. Chomsky for Holocaust (1978) Jackie Cooper for "Pilot" (The White Shadow) (1979)
1980s	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)
1990s	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 "Lost Israel, Part 2" (1998) Paris Barclay for "Hearts and Souls" (1999)
2000s	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)
2010s	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) Jason Bateman for "Reparations" (2019)
2020s	Andrij Parekh for "Hunting" (2020) Jessica Hobbs for "War" (2021) Hwang Dong-hyuk for "Red Light, Green Light" (2022) Mark Mylod for "Connor's Wedding" (2023)

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