Lee H. Katzin
Lee H. Katzin (12 April 1935 - 30 October 2002) was an American film director. Early life and education. He was born in Detroit, Michigan, and became a TV director in the late 1960s, including episodes for "Bonanza, "and "Police Story." He also directed the 1971 feature film "Le Mans." Career. 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 "", and other early episodes, of the Gerry Anderson live-action series "." He also directed the pilots for the television series "Man from Atlantis" and "". But he was primarily known as a prolific episodic television director, helming many episodes of such series as "MacGyver" ,"Police Story (1973 TV Series)", "The Young Riders", and "Mission Impossible", among others. He died of cancer at the age of 67 in 2002 in Beverly Hills, California.