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.
Father of Mary McLaglen and Josh McLaglen.
Son of actor Victor McLaglen.
Andrew holds the distinction of directing the most episodes of "Gunsmoke" (1955).
Holds the distinction of directing the most episodes of "Have Gun - Will Travel" (1957).
One of the few directors to have directed both Clint Eastwood and John Wayne (I). Some of the others are Don Seigel and John Sturges.
