Andrew McLaglen
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Andrew Victor McLaglen (28 July 1920 - London, England) is a British - American film director and former actor. The son of British-Irish actor Victor McLaglen and Enid Lamont. Andrew, with his former wife American actress Veda Ann Borg, had three children, Andrew Victor McLaglen, II (August 3, 1954—January 16, 2006 in Maui, Hawaii), Josh McLaglen, an Assistant Director, and Mary McLaglen, a Production Manager and Producer.
Andrew, 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 episodes of Perry Mason, Have Gun — Will Travel, The Virginian, The Lieutenant and Gunsmoke before returning to films - directing Shenandoah (1965), The Rare Breed (1966), 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 Hellfighters (1968), The Undefeated (1969), Chisum (1970), and Cahill U.S. Marshal (1973).
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