Richard Leacock (born 18 July 1921, London) is a documentary film director and one of the pioneers of Direct Cinema. Leacock (known to his friends as "Ricky") grew up on a banana plantation in the Canary Islands (the Leacock family, though English, have long been involved in the production of Madeira wine and bananas in the Spanish and Portuguese islands), until shipped off to School in England. He attended Bedales School, then Dartington Hall School from 1929 to 1938, … Wikipedia
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Read Physics at Harvard University from 1939 to 1942, spending a lot of time producing plays. Attended Bedales School in Hampshire, then Dartington Hall School in Devon from 1929 to 1938, afterwards helped to form a student film unit at Dartington. Grew u www.imdb.com/name/nm0494886/
His brother is actor Viv Leacock. Born in England, he spent the early part of his childhood in the Caribbean before moving to Canada. His family settled on the West Coast in Vancouver, British Columbia, in the mid-1970s. He and his wife had a baby boy, Ma www.imdb.com/name/nm0494887/