Leonard Horn
Leonard Horn | |
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| Born | August 1, 1926 Bangor, Maine, U.S. |
| Died | May 25, 1975 (aged 48) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Director |
Leonard Horn (August 1, 1926 – May 25, 1975) was an American director of prime time television programs in the 1960s and 1970s and helped shape a number of "classic" adventure and sci-fi series, including Mission: Impossible, Mannix, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, and Wonder Woman. Horn was born in Bangor, Maine.
Career
Horn started directing in 1959-1962 for
Contemporary fan-sites, such as the viewer polling pages of the
TV pilot episodes
Horn was responsible for a number of classic TV pilots. In 1967, he directed the first episode of
Sci-fi shows
Along with adventure, science-fiction was among Horn's most successful genres. Of three first-season episodes he directed for The Outer Limits, two are ranked in the top ten by IMDB users, and one, "The Man Who Was Never Born" is considered among the series' classics. Horn's single Lost in Space entry ("Invaders from the 5th Dimension") likewise makes the IMDB top ten of the series' first-season episodes. In the premier season of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, the four most popular episodes among IMDB users were all directed by Horn, with "The Fear-Makers" called by one user "the first truly great episode".[1]
Other genres
Even when Horn turned his attention to less familiar genres, such as the Western, he often managed to get the best performances out of his actors. The one episode he directed for
Producer
Horn briefly tried his hand at producing as well as directing in the series It Takes a Thief. His one other effort as a producer (this time without directing) was the made-for-TV movie The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case (1976) – which garnered an Emmy for lead Anthony Hopkins, and a Golden Globe nomination for Best TV Movie. One earlier directorial effort, the TV movie Rogue's Gallery (1968), also landed a Golden Globe nomination for lead Greta Baldwin.
Feature films
Horn directed The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart (1970) which Andy Warhol called "the quintessential, most truthful studio-made film about the '60s counterculture".[3] Horn also directed Corky (1972) starring Robert Blake as a stock car racer.
Death
Horn suffered a heart attack while shooting the pilot for Wonder Woman in the spring of 1975 and died that May at the age of 48 in Los Angeles, California.
References
- ^ TV.com users ranked the Horn episode "Sub Sunk Here" the best of the first season Sub Sunk Here
- ^ The Mod Squad episode is listed on Horn's TV.com page but not on IMDB.com Leonard Horn, TV.com
- ^ The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart Internet Movie Database trivia page
External links
- Leonard Horn at IMDb
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