Andrew V. McLaglen
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Andrew McLaglen, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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DirectingBirthday
July 28, 1920Deathday
August 30, 2014Gender
MaleKnown Movie Credits
52Place of birth
London, England, UKAlso known as
Andrew Victor McLaglen, Andrew McLaglen, Andy McLaglenCast credits
Crew credits
Breakthrough
DirectorShenandoah
DirectorCahill: United States Marshal
DirectorThe Wild Geese
DirectorThe Devil's Brigade
Director"Mitchell"!
DirectorHellfighters
Director7 Men from Now
ProducerBandolero!
DirectorThe Dirty Dozen: Next Mission
DirectorThe Way West
DirectorMcLintock!
DirectorThe Last Hard Men
DirectorChisum
DirectorThe Rare Breed
DirectorFools' Parade
Director, ProducerSahara
DirectorMan in the Vault
DirectorThe Undefeated
DirectorThe Sea Wolves
DirectorThe Ballad of Josie
Director