
Philip Leacock
Biographie
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.
Réalisation (37 films)
Out of True
1951

The Kidnappers
1953

When Michael Calls
1989

Appointment in London
1953

The War Lover
1962

Dying Room Only
1973

The Spanish Gardener
1956

The Daughters of Joshua Cabe
1972

Let No Man Write My Epitaph
1960

Tamahine
1963

13 West Street
1962

The Rabbit Trap
1959

The Brave Don't Cry
1952

The Birdmen
1973

Baffled!
1973

Innocent Sinners
1958

Escapade
1955

High Tide at Noon
1957

Take a Giant Step
1959

Hand in Hand
1961

Killer on Board
1977

Reach for Glory
1962

Adam's Woman
1970

The Curse of King Tut's Tomb
1980

The Two Lives of Carol Letner
1981

Angel City
1980
Riders of the New Forest
1948
Summer Holiday
1973
Island People
1940

Life in Her Hands
1951
The Festival in London
1951

Three Sovereigns for Sarah
1985

Key West
1973

The Wild Women of Chastity Gulch
1982

Wild and Wooly
1978

The Great Man's Whiskers
1972
Secrets of Kew Gardens
1937