Directing
Anton Leader
Born — Died
1913-12-23 — 1988-07-01
Place of birth
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Known for
Directing
Credits
6 titles
Anton Leader (December 23, 1913 – July 1, 1988) was an American radio and television director. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 23, 1913. He directed radio dramas in New York in the 1940s and moved to Los Angeles in 1948. Subsequently, he worked as a free-lancer for Universal Studios and Columbia Pictures, among others. From the middle 1950s to the middle 1970s he directed many episodes of the popular television series of that era. Known as "Tony" to friends and colleagues, his screen credits alternated between "Tony Leader" and the more formal "Anton M. Leader." He died in Los Angeles, California, on July 1, 1988.
Known for
6.1Six children are found spread through out the world that not only have enormous intelligence, but identical intelligence and have a strange bond to each other.
Children of the Damned
1964
7.0A simple-minded blacksmith named Charley, well loved by the townsfolk, saves for a year to send off for a mail-order bride.
The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County
1970
6.3New York reporter Bob MacAvoy is persuaded by pregnant wife Jane to buy a broken-down weekly newspaper in Eden, California. They have humorous problems with small town mores and eccentric citizens. But their schemes to increase circulation get them in over their heads.
It Happens Every Thursday
1953
5.4The story of Abe Saperstein and the creation of the Harlem Globetrotters.
Go Man Go
1954
NRAt a particularly vulnerable time in her life, Carol is wooed by charming David. They fall in love, but Carol then learns that David is married. He says that he will get divorced for her, but Carol is visited by David's wife.
Once to Every Woman
1956
NRWhen a much-admired community leader dies, a journalist starts to investigate his life - and finds he was not the man he seemed.
Confession
1956
Behind the camera
6.1Six children are found spread through out the world that not only have enormous intelligence, but identical intelligence and have a strange bond to each other.
Children of the Damned
1964
7.0A simple-minded blacksmith named Charley, well loved by the townsfolk, saves for a year to send off for a mail-order bride.
The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County
1970
6.3New York reporter Bob MacAvoy is persuaded by pregnant wife Jane to buy a broken-down weekly newspaper in Eden, California. They have humorous problems with small town mores and eccentric citizens. But their schemes to increase circulation get them in over their heads.
It Happens Every Thursday
1953
5.4The story of Abe Saperstein and the creation of the Harlem Globetrotters.
Go Man Go
1954
NRAt a particularly vulnerable time in her life, Carol is wooed by charming David. They fall in love, but Carol then learns that David is married. He says that he will get divorced for her, but Carol is visited by David's wife.
Once to Every Woman
1956
NRWhen a much-admired community leader dies, a journalist starts to investigate his life - and finds he was not the man he seemed.
Confession
1956