Person Details

Birthday: 1920-07-28 06:24:42

Death: 2014-08-30 06:24:42

Aliases: Andrew Victor McLaglen , Andrew McLaglen , Andy McLaglen

Gender: Male

Place of birth: London, England, UK

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Movie Involvements: 49

TV Involvements: 17


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Biography

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Andrew Victor McLaglen (born 28 July 1920) is 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. He currently resides in Friday Harbor on San Juan Island, Washington State, directing plays for San Juan Island Community Theater. Description above from the Wikipedia article Andrew McLaglen, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Most Famous Work

Perry Mason
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Perry Mason

(1957) Director
The Virginian
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6

The Virginian

(1962) Director
Gunsmoke
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7

Gunsmoke

(1955) Director
Have Gun, Will Travel
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8

Have Gun, Will Travel

(1957) Director
Rawhide
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7

Rawhide

(1959) Director
McLintock!
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7

McLintock!

(1963) Director
Hondo
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Hondo

(1953) Unit Production Manager
The Wild Geese
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7

The Wild Geese

(1978) Director

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Production

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1971 Producer
1956 Producer
1953 Unit Production Manager
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