
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.

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

The Paper Chase

The Birdmen

ジェシカおばさんの事件簿

Danger Man

Rawhide

Hand in Hand

Family

The Waltons

Hawaii Five-O

Innocent Sinners

Buck Rogers in the 25th Century

Search

Hotel

The Rookies

Tales of the Unexpected

Adam's Woman

Gunsmoke

Dying Room Only

Cannon

Marcus Welby, M.D.

The Kidnappers

Dynasty

バージニアン

Fantasy Island

Appointment in London

Route 66

The Mod Squad

The Spanish Gardener

Mrs. Columbo

Eight Is Enough

Out of True

The War Lover

The Rabbit Trap

High Tide at Noon

Key West

The Defenders

The Brave Don't Cry

Angel City

13 West Street

Finder of Lost Loves

Silêncio Mortal

Let No Man Write My Epitaph

Falcon Crest

Baffled!

FBIアメリカ連邦警察

Reach for Glory

Escapade

Killer on Board

Berrenger's

Nurse

The Daughters of Joshua Cabe

Take a Giant Step

Tamahine

The Curse of King Tut's Tomb

Wild and Wooly

The Wild Women of Chastity Gulch

The Two Lives of Carol Letner

Riders of the New Forest

Life in Her Hands

Three Sovereigns for Sarah

The Great Man's Whiskers

The Great Adventure