Leonard Horn
| Leonard Horn | |
|---|---|
| Born |
August 1, 1926 Bangor, Maine, U.S. |
| Died | May 25, 1975 (aged 48) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Director |
Leonard J. Horn (August 1, 1926 – May 25, 1975) was a director of US prime time television programs in the 1960s and 1970s, and helped shape a number of “classic” adventure and sci-fi series, including Mission: Impossible, Mannix, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, and Wonder Woman. Contemporary fan-sites such as the viewer polling pages of the Internet Movie Database (hereafter IMDB) and TV.com show Horn’s work to have stood the test of time; many of the 94 episodes he directed for 34 prime-time television series rank among the more popular moments in the first “Golden Age of Television”.
Horn was born in Bangor, Maine. He started directing in 1959-1962 for Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, and was soon among a stable of directors working on such popular prime-time programs as The Untouchables, Route 66, and The Fugitive. Horn’s most sustained contribution to one series was directing ten episodes of Mission: Impossible, including five in the first season. His “Operation Rogosh” (1966), the series’ 3rd episode, ties among IMDB voters for the most popular first-season show, and most of his other efforts get high marks. In one of Horn’s second-season episodes, “Trek”, Peter Graves appeared for the first time as “Mr. Phelps”.
Horn was responsible for a number of classic TV pilots. In 1967, he directed the first episode of Mannix (“My Name is Mannix”), written by Bruce Geller, the creator and producer of Mission: Impossible. Half of the images for the show’s subsequently-famous opening montage derive from this production. Horn directed an additional six shows for the series. Also in 1967, he directed the second pilot for the series Ironside (“Split Second to an Epitaph”). His last pilot, and final television production, was for the series Wonder Woman in 1975, and was nominated for an Emmy in graphic design and title sequencing.
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