From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Andrew Victor McLaglen July 28 1920 August 30 2014 was a BritishAmerican 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 Bmovie 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 Devils 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 US 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 CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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