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Philip David Charles Leacock 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 started directing documentaries and later turned to fiction films. He was... known for his films about children, particularly The Little Kidnappers and The Spanish Gardener . Leacock, who made documentaries before taking on feature-length movies, had his first hit in 1950 with The Kidnappers, a family movie set in Nova Scotia. He also directed The Spanish Gardener, starring Dirk Bogarde; Innocent Sinners, with Flora Robson, and The Rabbit Trap, with Ernest Borgnine. In the early 1960's he moved to Hollywood, where he made The War Lover, starring Steve McQueen, based on John Hersey's novel about a World War II pilot. Other Leacock films were Take a Giant Step, about a black youth's encounter with racism, and Let No Man Write My Epitaph, about juvenile drug addiction. He also directed episodes of Gunsmoke, Route 66, The Waltons and The Defenders.
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