- He and Ed Pincus founded a film school at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts where he taught for 20 years. He moved to Paris, France in 1988.
- 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 up on a banana plantation in the Canary Islands till shipped off to school in England.
- Brother of Philip Leacock.
- Father of Robert Leacock and Victoria LeacockHoffman.
- Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume Two, 1945-1985." Pages 559-565. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1988.
- He left Harvard University in 1942 to enlist in the United States Army during World War II where he served as a combat photographer in the Signal Corps in Burma and China.
- He is survived by his daughters, Victoria Leacock Hoffman of New York City; Elspeth Leacock of Brooklyn, New York; Claudia Leacock of New York City; two sons, Robert Leacock of Watermill, New York; and David Leacock of Jupiter, Florida; his companion, Valerie Lalonde of Paris, France; a half-sister, Martha Leacock Crawford of England; and nine grandchildren.
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