Andrew V. McLaglen
Directing
Born 1920-07-28
Died 2014-08-30
London, England, UK
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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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Directing
50 credits
Perry Mason
The Virginian
Have Gun, Will Travel
Rawhide
Gunsmoke
Banacek
The Lieutenant
Everglades
The Fantastic Journey
Chisum
Gunslinger
The Wild Geese
Sahara
McLintock!
Code R
The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters
The Way West
The Blue and the Gray
Bandolero!
The Wonderful World of Disney
Hec Ramsey
The Undefeated
The Rare Breed
North Sea Hijack
The Sea Wolves
Cahill: United States Marshal
On Wings of Eagles
Shenandoah
Hellfighters
The Devil's Brigade
The Shadow Riders
Breakthrough
Amy Prentiss
Something Big
One More Train to Rob
The Last Hard Men
The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission
Fools' Parade
Mitchell
The Ballad of Josie
Monkeys, Go Home!
The Fantastic Journey
Return from the River Kwai
Banjo Hackett: Roamin' Free
Gun the Man Down
Travis McGee
Man in the Vault
The Bluegrass Special
Stowaway to the Moon
Eye of the Widow
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Acting
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