Director
Lee H. Katzin
91 years · Detroit, Michigan, USA · 36 films
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.
Best known for
Filmography 36
Space: 1999 4K Double Bill - Breakaway and The Metamorph
2026 · Director
Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans
2015 · Self (archive footage)
On The Roku Channel
Restraining Order
1999 · Director
The Break
1995 · Director
Hoodwinked
1989 · Director
The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission
1988 · Director
World Gone Wild
1987 · Director
The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission
1987 · Director
Emergency Room
1983 · Director
Journey Through the Black Sun
1982 · Director
The Neighborhood
1982 · Director
Death Ray 2000
1981 · Director
Alien Attack
1980 · Director
Police Story: Confessions of a Lady Cop
1980 · Director
Samurai
1979 · Director
Terror Out of the Sky
1978 · Director
Zuma Beach
1978 · Director
Relentless
1977 · Director
Man from Atlantis
1977 · Director
The Quest
1976 · Director
Sky Hei$t
1975 · Director
The Last Survivors
1975 · Director
Space: 1999
1975 · Director
On Kanopy
Savages
1974 · Director