Lee H. Katzin

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 liveaction 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