Richard Leacock
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Biography
Leacock began his film career working on Robert Flaherty's "Louisiana Story" (1948) and collaborated with several other noted documentarians before forming his own production company with Robert Drew in 1958. While at Drew Associates, he turned out a number of TV documentaries, including the innovative "Living Camera" series, which established him as a pioneering figure of American "direct cinema" (a movement similar to, and concurrent with, France's "cinema verite"). Leacock has also worked with Albert Maysles and D.A. Pennebaker (with whom he formed a production company in 1963), and played his first dramatic part as one of the "johns" in Lizzie Borden's "Working Girls" (1986). His late brother Philip Leacock was a director and producer of both film and television. His son Robert and daughter Victoria are also filmmakers.
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1948
Worked as a cameraman on Robert Flaherty's "Louisiana Story"
1954
Wrote and directed "Toby and the Tall Corn" for the cultural TV program, "Omnibus"
1958
Formed Drew Associates with LIFE magazine editor Robert Drew
1960
Worked on Robert Drew's film "Primary," an intimate observation of a primary election with Democratic hopefuls John F. Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey
1963
Formed Leacock-Pennebaker, Inc. with D.A. Pennebaker
1969
Appointed head of Film Department at MIT
1976
Appointed president of Film Study Center at Hampshire College
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For more information see bio for PENNEBAKER, D.A.
