Andrew McLaglen

Andrew Victor McLaglen (28 July 1920 - London, England) is a British-American film and television director and former actor.

The son of British actor Victor McLaglen and Enid Lamont. Andrew, with his former wife American actress Veda Ann Borg, had one child, Andrew Victor McLaglen, II (August 3 1954—January 16 2006 in Maui, Hawaii).

His second marriage to Mary ? produced two more children, Josh McLaglen, an Assistant Director, and Mary McLaglen, a Production Manager and Producer.

McLaglen, from a film family that included five uncles, 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 Jimmy 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.He currently resides in Friday Harbor on San Juan Island, Washington State, directing plays for San Juan Island Community Theater.

Films Directed

* "Gun the Man Down" (1956)
* "Man in the Vailt" (1956)
* "The Abductors" (1957)
* "Freckles" (1960)
* "McLintock!" (1963)
* "Shenandoah" (1965)
* "The Rare Breed" (1966)
* "The Ballad of Josie" (1967)
* "Monkeys, Go Home!" (1967)
* "The Way West" (1967)
* "The Devil's Brigade"(1968)
* "Bandolero!" (1968)
* "Hellfighters" (1968)
* "The Undefeated" (1969)
* "Chisum" (1970)
* "One More Train to Rob" (1971)
* "Fool's Parade" (1971)
* "Something Big" (1971)
* "Cahill U.S. Marshal" (1973)
* "Mitchell" (1975)
* "The Last Hard Men" (1976)
* "The Wild Geese" (1978)
* "North Sea Hijack" (1979)
* "The Sea Wolves" (1980)
* "Sahara" (1983)
* "Eye of the Window" (1989)
* "Return from the River Kwai" (1989)

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