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Philip Leacock. Director: Gunsmoke. Philip Leacock was brought up in the Canary Islands and educated at the English boarding school Bedales. He began in the film industry as a camera assistant in 1935.
Philip Leacock. Director: Gunsmoke. Philip Leacock was brought up in the Canary Islands and educated at the English boarding school Bedales. He began in the film industry as a camera assistant in 1935.
Philip Leacock is a British-born film and TV director who came to international recognition in the 1950s with realistic documentary-style dramas. The London-born Leacock spent much of...
Take a Giant Step is a 1959 American coming-of-age drama film directed by Philip Leacock. The plot concerns a black teenager living in a predominantly white environment and having trouble coping as he reaches an age at which the realities of racism are beginning to affect his life more directly and pointedly than they had in his childhood.
Jul 14, 1990 · Philip David Charles Leacock (8 October 1917 – 14 July 1990) was an English television and film director and producer. [1] His brother was documentary filmmaker Richard Leacock. [2]
Philip Leacock was an intelligent filmmaker whose documentary training strongly influenced his approach to features - he felt it was always important to make the basis of what is going on as real as possible. But unlike many ex-documentary directors, he was a sensitive director of actors.
With Philip Leacock. Filmmaker Philip Leacock, the brother of cinéma vérité pioneer Richard Leacock, made his own name as Britain's premier director of child actors, in such beloved films as The Kidnappers (1953), The Spanish Gardener (1956), Innocent Sinners (1958), Hand in Hand (1961), and Reach for Glory (1962), among others.
