Philip Leacock
41 movies · 37 TV shows
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- Oct 8, 1917
- Died
- Jul 14, 1990 (age 72)
- Place of birth
- London, United Kingdom
- Also known as
- Philip David Charles Leacock
Biography
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.
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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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Known for
Philip Leacock: movies and TV shows
Behind the camera (78)
- 1986
- 1985 Three Sovereigns for Sarah
Director
- 1985
- 1984
- 1984
- 1982 The Wild Women of Chastity Gulch
Director
- 1982
- 1982
- 1981
- 1981 The Two Lives of Carol Letner
Director
- 1981
- 1981
- 1980 Angel City
Director
- 1980 The Waltons: A Decade of the Waltons
Director
- 1980 The Curse of King Tut's Tomb
Director
- 1979
- 1979
- 1979
- 1979
- 1978
- 1978 Wild and Wooly
Director
- 1978
- 1977 Killer on Board
Director
- 1977
- 1976
- 1974
- 1973 Key West
Director
- 1973 The Birdmen
Director
- 1973 Dying Room Only
Director
- 1973 Baffled!
Director, Producer
- 1973 Summer Holiday
Director
- 1972
- 1972 The Daughters of Joshua Cabe
Director
- 1972
- 1972
- 1972 The Great Man's Whiskers
Director
- 1972 When Michael Calls
Director
- 1971
- 1970 Adam's Woman
Director
- 1969
- 1969
- 1968
- 1968 Firecreek
Producer
- 1967
- 1965
- 1965
- 1963
- 1963 Tamahine
Director
- 1962 The War Lover
Director
- 1962
- 1962
- 1962 Reach for Glory
Director
- 1962 13 West Street
Director
- 1961
- 1961 Hand in Hand
Director
- 1960 Let No Man Write My Epitaph
Director
- 1960
- 1960
- 1960
- 1959 Take a Giant Step
Director
- 1959 The Rabbit Trap
Director
- 1959
- 1958 Innocent Sinners
Director
- 1957 High Tide at Noon
Director
- 1956 The Spanish Gardener
Director
- 1955
- 1955 Escapade
Director
- 1953 The Kidnappers
Director
- 1953 Appointment in London
Director
- 1952 The Brave Don't Cry
Director
- 1951 The Festival in London
Director
- 1951 Life in Her Hands
Director
- 1951 Out of True
Director
- 1948 Riders of the New Forest
Director
- 1940 Island People
Director
- 1939 The Londoners
Assistant Director
- 1938 Behind the Spanish Lines
Associate Editor
- 1937 Secrets of Kew Gardens
Director