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Philip Leacock
London, United Kingdom
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…
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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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1986
Bridges to Cross
TV show Director
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1985
Three Sovereigns for Sarah
Movie Director
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1985
Berrenger's
TV show Director
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1984
Murder, She Wrote
TV show Director
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1984
Finder of Lost Loves
TV show Director
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1982
The Wild Women of Chastity Gulch
Movie Director
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1982
Hotel
TV show Director
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1982
American Playhouse
TV show Director
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1981
Falcon Crest
TV show Director
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1981
The Two Lives of Carol Letner
Movie Director
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1981
Nurse
TV show Director
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1981
Dynasty
TV show Director
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1980
Angel City
Movie Director
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1980
The Waltons: A Decade of the Waltons
Movie Director
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1980
The Curse of King Tut's Tomb
Movie Director
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1979
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
TV show Director
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1979
Tales of the Unexpected
TV show Director
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1979
Mrs. Columbo
TV show Director
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1979
$weepstake$
TV show Director
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1978
The Paper Chase
TV show Director
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1978
Wild and Wooly
Movie Director
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1978
Fantasy Island
TV show Director
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1977
Killer on Board
Movie Director
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1977
Eight Is Enough
TV show Director
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1976
Family
TV show Director
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1974
The New Land
TV show Director
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1973
Key West
Movie Director
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1973
The Birdmen
Movie Director
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1973
Dying Room Only
Movie Director
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1973
Baffled!
Movie Director
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1973
Summer Holiday
Movie Director
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1972
The Waltons
TV show Director
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1972
Search
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1972
The Daughters of Joshua Cabe
Movie Director
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1972
The Rookies
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1972
The Great Man's Whiskers
Movie Director
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1972
When Michael Calls
Movie Director
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1971
Cannon
TV show Director
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1970
Adam's Woman
Movie Director
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1969
Marcus Welby, M.D.
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