Background
Katzin, Lee H. was born on April 12, 1935 in Detroit, Michigan, United States.
Katzin, Lee H. was born on April 12, 1935 in Detroit, Michigan, United States.
He also directed the 1971 movie, Le Mans. 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 Manitoba 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 in 2002 in Beverly Hills, California.
Member Directors Guild American.