Philip David Charles Leacock (8 October 1917 – 14 July 1990) was an English television and film director and producer.
He began to work mainly in Hollywood, where he made The Rabbit Trap (1959) with Ernest Borgnine and Take a Giant Step (1959) about a black youth's encounter with racism, both under contract to Hecht-Hill-Lancaster Productions.
He followed with Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1960) about an aspiring young pianist whose mother is a drug addict, and The War Lover (1962) with Steve McQueen, based on John Hersey's novel about a World War II pilot.
[1] Around this time, he began to work in television, directing episodes of Gunsmoke, Route 66, The Waltons, The Defenders, and The New Land.
[4] 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.