Andrew V. McLaglen, a specialist with the sagebrush who directed John Wayne in five films and helmed scores of episodes of the classic CBS Western series Gunsmoke, Have Gun — Will Travel and Rawhide, has died. He was 94.
McLaglen, whose father was the Oscar-winning British actor Victor McLaglen, died Saturday at his Friday Harbor home in the San Juan Islands of Washington state, the Journal of the San Juan Islands reported.
According to IMDb, McLaglen directed 96 episodes of the legendary series Gunsmoke from 1956 through 1965 and guided 116 installments that spanned the entire run of the popular Have Gun — Will Travel, which aired from 1957 to 1963 and starred Richard Boone as a gentleman gunfighter named Paladin.
The 6-foot-7 McLaglen called the shots for Wayne in the Westerns McLintock! (1963) — which he always said was his big career break — The Undefeated (1969), Chisum (1970) and Cahill U.S. Marshal (1973) and directed the famed actor in Hellfighters (1968), an action film about oil-well firefighters.
McLaglen, whose father was the Oscar-winning British actor Victor McLaglen, died Saturday at his Friday Harbor home in the San Juan Islands of Washington state, the Journal of the San Juan Islands reported.
According to IMDb, McLaglen directed 96 episodes of the legendary series Gunsmoke from 1956 through 1965 and guided 116 installments that spanned the entire run of the popular Have Gun — Will Travel, which aired from 1957 to 1963 and starred Richard Boone as a gentleman gunfighter named Paladin.
The 6-foot-7 McLaglen called the shots for Wayne in the Westerns McLintock! (1963) — which he always said was his big career break — The Undefeated (1969), Chisum (1970) and Cahill U.S. Marshal (1973) and directed the famed actor in Hellfighters (1968), an action film about oil-well firefighters.
- 9/3/2014
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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