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American film director
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Male
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Birth:
1900(Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA)
Death:
15 May 1954(Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA)
The details
Biography
Introduction
Herbert I. Leeds (September 13, 1900 – May 15, 1954) was an American film director.
Biography
Herbert Irving Levy was born on September 13, 1900, to Abraham T. Levy and had a sister, Marjorie Levy Rudman. He married Evelyn C. and had Lydia as their child.
Leeds was employed by Twentieth Century Fox, for whom he directed a number of lower-budget films such as Mr. Moto on Danger Island (1939).He was credited under a variety of different names during his career, as Herbert Levy and Bert Levy.
He died on May 15, 1954, in Manhattan, New York City.
Selected filmography
- Five of a Kind (1938)
- Charlie Chan in City in Darkness (1939)
- Mr. Moto in Danger Island (1939)
- Romance of the Rio Grande (1941)
- Manila Calling (1942)
- It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog (1946)
- Bunco Squad (1950)
Bibliography
- Youngkin, Stephen. The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre. University Press of Kentucky, 2005.