Lee Katz

Birth : 1914-01-13, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

Death : 2003-05-29

Movies

You Must Remember This: A Tribute to 'Casablanca'
Self - First Assistant Director
A documentary about the making of the classic film "Casablanca."
The Journey
Associate Producer
A Communist officer falls hard for a married woman trying to escape from Hungary.
Love in the Afternoon
Associate Producer
Lovestruck conservatory student Ariane pretends to be just as much a cosmopolitan lover as the worldly mature Frank Flannagan hoping that l’amour will take hold.
Battle Circus
Unit Manager
A young Army nurse, Lt Ruth McGara, newly assigned to the 66th MASH during the Korean War, attracts the sexual attention of the unit's commander Dr. (MAJ) Jed Webbe. Webbe, who has a drinking problem, at first wants a "no strings" relationship. McGara is warned by the other nurses of Webbe's womanizing ways. Despite these initial handicaps, their love flourishes against a background of war, enemy attacks, death and injury. The relationship deepens and uplifts both characters.
The Asphalt Jungle
Production Manager
Recently paroled from prison, legendary burglar "Doc" Riedenschneider, with funding from Alonzo Emmerich, a crooked lawyer, gathers a small group of veteran criminals together in the Midwest for a big jewel heist.
Casablanca
Assistant Director
In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.
Out of the Fog
Assistant Director
A Brooklyn pier racketeer bullies boat-owners into paying protection money but two fed-up fishermen decide to eliminate the gangster themselves rather than complain to the police.
British Intelligence
Screenplay
During WWI pretty German master spy Helene von Lorbeer is sent undercover to London to live with the family of a high-placed British official where she is to rendezvous with the butler Valdar, also a spy, and help him transmit secret war plans back to Germany.
The Return of Doctor X
Screenplay
When news reporter Walter Garrett arrives at the hotel room of bombshell actress Angela Merrova to conduct an interview, he finds her dead from multiple stab wounds. He returns with the police to find the hotel empty and the body vanished. Garrett writes about the incident but is fired when Merrova, alive and well, goes to the paper to complain. Now his only chance to get his job back is to find the truth, which involves the grisly scheme of a madman.
Kid Nightingale
Story
A waiter becomes a singing prizefighter.
No Place to Go
Screenplay
An elderly war veteran feels lonely and unwanted while living with his son and daughter-in-law, but he learns his life still has purpose when he befriends a neighborhood child with a troubled family life.
Waterfront
Screenplay
A hard-living dockworker finds religion until his brother is murdered.
The Man Who Dared
Screenplay
An elderly grandfather proves to be heroic when he takes a stand against local city corruption.
Code of the Secret Service
Screenplay
Secret Service agents try to solve the theft of treasury banknote plates.
Women in the Wind
Screenplay
A famous aviator helps an amateur enter a cross-country air race for women.
Blackwell's Island
Story
A reporter gets himself sent to prison to expose a mobster.
Heart of the North
Screenplay
A two-fisted Canadian Mountie leads lawmen in pursuit of the thieves who stole an Edmonton-bound freighter's cargo.
Slim
Assistant Director
Expert lineman Red takes Farm-boy Slim under his wing and teaches him the dangerous, migratory trade of putting up transmission lines. They both love their work, and the same girl, who hates their dangerous profession.
Earthworm Tractors
Second Unit
A salesman tries to sell a tractor to a customer who hates tractors while falling for the girl.
Miss Pacific Fleet
Assistant Director
A down-on-her-luck showgirl sets her eyes on the cash prize that comes with winning the title "Miss Pacific Fleet".
Upperworld
Assistant Director
A railroad tycoon, disillusioned with his marriage, starts seeing a showgirl. Things go agreeably until the woman's manager decides to blackmail the millionaire.
Mystery of the Wax Museum
Assistant Director
The disappearance of people and corpses leads a reporter to a wax museum and a sinister sculptor.