---
name: "Don Catlin"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/don-catlin"
fi1m_id: "don-catlin"
imdb_id: "nm2272288"
tmdb_id: 3201038
roles: []
born: "4 June 1938"
died: "16 January 2024"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-03T00:01:41.716088+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Don Catlin

## Identity

Don Catlin

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/don-catlin
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** don-catlin
- **IMDb ID:** nm2272288
- **TMDB ID:** 3201038
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2272288/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3201038

Actor. Born 4 June 1938 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. Died 16 January 2024.

## Details

- **Born:** 4 June 1938, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
- **Died:** 16 January 2024
- **Also known as:** Don H. Catlin, Dr. Don Catlin
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2272288/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3201038

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Icarus*](https://film.one/film/icarus.md) (76)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Don Catlin (also credited as Don H. Catlin or Dr. Don Catlin) is an American anti-doping scientist and pharmacologist. He founded the UCLA Olympic Analytical Laboratory in 1982, the first sports anti-doping laboratory in the United States, and directed it until 2007. The laboratory conducted testing for the Olympics, the NFL, Major League Baseball minor leagues and the NCAA, among other organisations.

Catlin developed several key testing methods for performance-enhancing drugs, including the carbon isotope ratio test for testosterone and the detection of designer steroids such as THG. He oversaw drug testing at multiple Olympic Games beginning with Los Angeles in 1984. He appeared as himself in the 2017 documentary *Icarus*.

*Sources: nytimes.com, imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, antidopingresearch.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Icarus* (2017), Fi1m 76, as Self — [page](https://film.one/film/icarus.md)

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