Andrew V. McLaglen
Andrew Victor McLaglen ((July 28, 1920 – August 30, 2014) was a British-American film and television director and former actor.
Andrew McLaglen was born in London, the son of British actor Victor McLaglen and Enid Lamont. He was from a film family that included eight uncles and an aunt, and he grew up on movie sets with his parents as well as John Wayne and John Ford.
After working as an assistant director on a few smaller films, Ford gave him the assistant director job on the film The Quiet Man (1952). After a few more assistant or second director jobs, McLaglen directed his first film Gun The Man Down in 1956 - a western B-movie with James Arness, Angie Dickinson and Harry Carey, Jr.. He went on to work extensively in television directing, directing episodes of Perry Mason (7), Gunslinger (5), Rawhide (6), and then 99 episodes of Have Gun – Will Travel, The Lieutenant (4), The Virginian (2), and 96 episodes of Gunsmoke. Returning to films - directing Shenandoah (1965) and The Rare Breed (1966), both with James Stewart; The Devil's Brigade (1968), Mitchell (1975), The Wild Geese (1978), North Sea Hijack (1979), and The Sea Wolves (1980), mostly westerns, but later specializing in war or action films, his last being Return from the River Kwai (1989).
He also worked many times with John Wayne in such films as McLintock! (1963), Hellfighters (1968), The Undefeated (1969), Chisum (1970), and Cahill U.S. Marshal (1973). He also directed The Last Hard Men (1976) which starred Charlton Heston and James Coburn. McLaglen directed films in an assortment of categories, including crime, war, historical and comedy, but he was most frequently a director of Westerns, and would be among the last of the American film directors to specialize in the Western genre.
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Movies (57)
The Quiet Man: The Joy of Ireland
2002 · Self
Eye of the Widow
1991 · Director
John Wayne - Eine amerikanische Legende
1991 · Self
Return from the River Kwai
1989 · Director
The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission
1985 · Director
Sahara
1983 · Director
Travis McGee
1983 · Director
The Shadow Riders
1982 · Director
The Sea Wolves
1980 · Director
North Sea Hijack
1980 · Director
Breakthrough
1979 · Director
The Wild Geese
1978 · Director
Trail of Danger
1978 · Director
Stars' War: The Flight of the Wild Geese
1978 · Self
Johnny, weil Du Geburtstag hast
1977 · Self
The Bluegrass Special
1977 · Director
Murder at the World Series
1977 · Director
The Fantastic Journey
1977 · Director
Royce
1976 · Director
Banjo Hackett: Roamin' Free
1976 · Director
The Last Hard Men
1976 · Director
Mitchell
1975 · Director
Stowaway to the Moon
1975 · Director
The Log of the Black Pearl
1975 · Director
Cahill: United States Marshal
1973 · Director
The Man Behind the Star
1973 · Self
Something Big
1971 · Director, Producer
Fools' Parade
1971 · Director, Producer
One More Train to Rob
1971 · Director
Chisum
1970 · Director
The Undefeated
1969 · Director
Hellfighters
1968 · Director
Bandolero!
1968 · Director
The Devil's Brigade
1968 · Director
The Ballad of Josie
1967 · Director
The Way West
1967 · Director
Monkeys, Go Home!
1967 · Director
The Rare Breed
1966 · Director
Shenandoah
1965 · Director
McLintock!
1963 · Director
The Little Shepherd Of Kingdom Come
1961 · Director
Freckles
1960 · Director
The Abductors
1957 · Director
Man in the Vault
1956 · Director
Gun the Man Down
1956 · Director
7 Men from Now
1956 · Producer
Blood Alley
1955 · Assistant Director
Track of the Cat
1954 · Assistant Director
The High and the Mighty
1954 · Assistant Director
Hondo
1953 · Unit Production Manager
Island in the Sky
1953 · Assistant Director
Kansas Pacific
1953 · Assistant Director
Hellgate
1952 · Assistant Director
Wild Stallion
1952 · Assistant Director
Bullfighter and the Lady
1951 · Assistant Director
Paris Underground
1945 · Sgt. McNair
Since You Went Away
1944 · Former Plowboy (uncredited)
TV shows (17)
On Wings of Eagles
1986 · Director
The Blue and the Gray
1982 · Director
The Fantastic Journey
1977 · Director
Code R
1977 · Director
Amy Prentiss
1974 · Director
Hec Ramsey
1972 · Director
Banacek
1972 · Director
The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters
1963 · Director
The Lieutenant
1963 · Director
The Virginian
1962 · Director
Everglades
1961 · Director
The Wonderful World of Disney
1961 · Director
Gunslinger
1961 · Director
Rawhide
1959 · Director
Perry Mason
1957 · Director
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957 · Director
Gunsmoke
1955 · Director