Name Lee Katzin | Role TV Director | |
 | ||
Died October 30, 2002, Beverly Hills, California, United States Nominations DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Television Movies Le Mans, Heaven with a Gun, What Ever Happened to Aunt Al, The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly M, The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mis Similar People Elga Andersen, Siegfried Rauch, Ronald Leigh‑Hunt, Noah Beery - Jr, Telly Savalas | ||
Pidax top secret the salzburg connection 1972 lee h katzin
Lee H. Katzin (12 April 1935 - 30 October 2002) was born in Detroit, Michigan, United States, 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.
Contents
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.
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.