Philip Leacock
Directing
Born 1917-10-08
Died 1990-07-14
London, United Kingdom
78 credits
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Philip David Charles Leacock (8 October 1917 – 14 July 1990) was an English television and film director and producer. His brother was documentary filmmaker Richard Leacock.
Born in London, England, Leacock spent his childhood in the Canary Islands. He began his career directing documentaries and later turned to fiction films.
He was known for his films about children, particularly The Kidnappers (US: The Little Kidnappers, 1953), which gained Honorary Juvenile Acting Oscars for two of its performers, and The Spanish Gardener (1956) starring Dirk Bogarde. He also directed Innocent Sinners (1958) with Flora Robson, The Rabbit Trap (1959) with Ernest Borgnine, and The War Lover (1962) with Steve McQueen, based on John Hersey's novel about a World War II pilot.
He began to work mainly in Hollywood, where he made Take a Giant Step (1959) about a black youth's encounter with racism and Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1960) about an aspiring young pianist whose mother is a drug addict. Around this time, he began to work in television, directing episodes of Gunsmoke, Route 66, The Waltons, The Defenders, and The New Land. He also directed many segments of the American series Eight Is Enough (1977–1981).
He retired in 1987 after directing a three-part television drama about the Salem witch hunts titled Three Sovereigns for Sister Sarah, which starred Vanessa Redgrave.
Leacock died while on vacation with his family in London on 14 July 1990.
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Filmography
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Directing
56 credits
Murder, She Wrote
Hawaii Five-O
Dynasty
The Waltons
Falcon Crest
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
The Virginian
American Playhouse
Fantasy Island
Hotel
Rawhide
Cannon
Tales of the Unexpected
The Defenders
Gunsmoke
Route 66
The F.B.I.
Marcus Welby, M.D.
The Rookies
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
Eight Is Enough
Danger Man
The Mod Squad
Family
Finder of Lost Loves
The Great Adventure
The Paper Chase
Mrs. Columbo
Search
Nurse
$weepstake$
Dan Raven
Berrenger's
Innocent Sinners
Key West
The New Land
The Daughters of Joshua Cabe
The War Lover
The Wild Women of Chastity Gulch
Tamahine
Baffled!
13 West Street
Let No Man Write My Epitaph
Take a Giant Step
Escapade
The Curse of King Tut's Tomb
Bridges to Cross
When Michael Calls
The Great Man's Whiskers
The Spanish Gardener
Dying Room Only
Three Sovereigns for Sarah
The Birdmen
Angel City
High Tide at Noon
The Two Lives of Carol Letner
Producing
6 credits
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