# Lawrence Doheny

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'''Lawrence Doheny''' (14 April 1924 - 7 September 1982) was an Irish-born American television and film director who directed more than 100 episodes of television from the 1950s to the 1980s.
==Career==
Born in [Limerick](/source/Limerick), Doheny emigrated to the United States in the 1930s and began directing for television, first on the series ''[The Big Story](/source/The_Big_Story_(radio_and_TV_series))'' and ''[Rescue 8](/source/Rescue_8)''. In 1961, he wrote and directed a feature film, ''[Teenage Millionaire](/source/Teenage_Millionaire)''. This would be Doheny's only foray into feature films. For the rest of his career he directed television series, most notably ''[Adam-12](/source/Adam-12)'' (13 episodes), ''[The Rockford Files](/source/The_Rockford_Files)'' (12 episodes), ''[Black Sheep Squadron](/source/Black_Sheep_Squadron)'' (8 episodes),<ref name=Abbott>{{cite book|first=Jon|last=Abbott|title=Stephen J. Cannell Television Productions: A History of All Series and Pilots|date=2009|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0786441730}}</ref> and ''[Magnum, P.I.](/source/Magnum%2C_P.I.)'' (8 episodes).

Doheny also directed television films. In 1974, he directed ''[Houston, We've Got a Problem](/source/Houston%2C_We've_Got_a_Problem)'', the first dramatization of the [Apollo 13](/source/Apollo_13) mission. In 1975, he directed ''The Unwanted'', a drama about a plot to smuggle impoverished Irish immigrants from Canada into the United States.<ref name="O'Connor">{{cite news|first=John|last=O'Connor|date=1975|title=TV Review|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1975/04/16/archives/tv-review-2-dramas-about-irish-and-chinese-in-us.html|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-09-26}}</ref>

He was married to Margaret Mangan, and had three children. He died in Los Angeles at the age of 58.

==External links==
* {{IMDb name|0230529}}

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Category:Film directors from Los Angeles
Category:American television directors
Category:Irish emigrants to the United States

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