Andrew V. McLaglen

Known for DirectingBorn 1920-07-28Died 2014-08-30London, England, UK

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.Read more

Movies & web series

The Log of the Black Pearl

The Abductors

Banacek

Code R

Everglades

The Wonderful World of Disney

Perry Mason

Hec Ramsey

The Quiet Man: The Joy of Ireland

Have Gun, Will Travel

Rawhide

Banjo Hackett: Roamin' Free

Shenandoah

The Lieutenant

The Wild Geese

The Blue and the Gray

Murder at the World Series

Chisum

Fools' Parade

The Shadow Riders

7 Men from Now

Bandolero!

Gunsmoke

Amy Prentiss

Hellgate

McLintock!

Wild Stallion

The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission

Hondo

The Virginian

North Sea Hijack

Gun the Man Down

Since You Went Away

The Devil's Brigade

The Undefeated

Hellfighters

Gunslinger

The Last Hard Men

The Fantastic Journey

John Wayne - Eine amerikanische Legende

The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters

On Wings of Eagles

Cahill: United States Marshal

Island in the Sky

The Rare Breed

The Way West

The Sea Wolves

Bullfighter and the Lady