Lee H. Katzin
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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.
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Le Mans (1971)
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The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission (1988)
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Heaven with a Gun (1969)
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The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission (1987)
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World Gone Wild (1987)
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Hoodwinked (1989)
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What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice? (1969)
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Hondo and the Apaches (1967)
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Sky Hei$t (1975)
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Terror Out of the Sky (1978)
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The Stranger (1973)
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Alien Attack (1980)
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The Salzburg Connection (1972)
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The Phynx (1970)
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Space: 1999 (1975)
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The Quest (1976)
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Samurai (1979)
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The Break (1995)
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Voyage of the Yes (1973)
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Restraining Order (1999)
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Zuma Beach (1978)
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The Last Survivors (1975)
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Along Came a Spider (1970)
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Police Story: Confessions of a Lady Cop (1980)
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Death Ray 2000 (1981)
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Journey Through the Black Sun (1982)
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Man from Atlantis (1977)
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Mission: Impossible - The Slave (1967)
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Relentless (1977)
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Emergency Room (1983)
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The Neighborhood (1982)
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Savages (1974)
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Strange Homecoming (1974)
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Ordeal (1973)
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Visions... (1972)
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The Eagle and The Bear (1985)
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