Philip Leacock
Personal Info
Known for
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1917-10-08
Day of Death
1990-07-14 (72 years old)
Place of Birth
London, United Kingdom
Philip 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.
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.
Known For
Crew
(1985)
Three Sovereigns for Sarah
Director
(1982)
The Wild Women of Chastity Gulch
Director
(1981)
The Two Lives of Carol Letner
Director
(1980)
The Curse of King Tut's Tomb
Director
(1980)
Angel City
Director
(1978)
Wild and Wooly
Director
(1977)
Killer on Board
Director
(1973)
Dying Room Only
Director
(1973)
The Birdmen
Director
(1973)
Baffled!
Director, Producer
(1973)
Summer Holiday
Director
(1973)
Key West
Director
(1972)
When Michael Calls
Director
(1972)
The Daughters of Joshua Cabe
Director
(1972)
The Great Man's Whiskers
Director
(1970)
Adam's Woman
Director
(1968)
Firecreek
Producer
(1963)
Tamahine
Director
(1962)
The War Lover
Director
(1962)
13 West Street
Director
(1962)
Reach for Glory
Director
(1961)
Hand in Hand
Director
(1960)
Let No Man Write My Epitaph
Director
(1959)
The Rabbit Trap
Director
(1959)
Take a Giant Step
Director
(1958)
Innocent Sinners
Director
(1957)
High Tide at Noon
Director
(1956)
The Spanish Gardener
Director
(1955)
Escapade
Director
(1953)
The Kidnappers
Director
(1953)
Appointment in London
Director
(1952)
The Brave Don't Cry
Director
(1951)
Out of True
Director
(1951)
Life in Her Hands
Director
(1951)
The Festival in London
Director
(1948)
Riders of the New Forest
Director
(1940)
Island People
Director
(1938)
Behind the Spanish Lines
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