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name: "Anton Leader"
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roles: ["Director"]
born: "23 December 1913"
died: "1 July 1988"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 84
updated: "2026-09-16T15:46:57.594237+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Anton Leader

Director. Born 23 December 1913 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Died 1 July 1988.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 23 December 1913, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- **Died:** 1 July 1988
- **Active:** 1959–1966
- **Also known as:** Anton M. Leader, Антон "Тони" Лидер, «Тони» Лидер
- **Works often with:** George Clayton Johnson, Jerome Bixby, Jerry Sohl, Ralph Senensky, Richard Matheson, Robert Butler

## Biography

Anton M. Leader, also credited as Tony Leader or Anton Leader, was an American radio and television director. He was born on 23 December 1913 in Boston, Massachusetts, and died on 1 July 1988 in Los Angeles, California.

Leader directed radio dramas in New York during the 1940s before moving to Los Angeles in 1948. He subsequently worked as a freelancer for studios including Universal and Columbia Pictures. From the mid-1950s to the mid-1970s he directed episodes of numerous television series, including *The Twilight Zone* (two episodes, 1960–1961), *Perry Mason*, *Leave It to Beaver*, *Star Trek*, *Get Smart*, *Gilligan's Island*, *Lost in Space*, *Hawaii Five-O* and *Ironside*. His feature film credits include the direction of *Children of the Damned* (1964).

He won a Western Heritage Award in 1965 for an episode of *The Virginian*. Leader was married to Rosalind Palca.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, latimes.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Star Trek* (1966), Fi1m 83, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/star-trek-1966.md)
- *The Twilight Zone* (1959), Fi1m 84, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-twilight-zone.md)

## Also known for

- *Get Smart* (1965), Director
- *Gilligan's Island* (1964), Director
- *Hawaii Five-O* (1969), Director
- *Perry Mason* (1957), Director
- *Lost in Space* (1965), Director
- *Children of the Damned* (1964), Director
- *Leave It to Beaver* (1957), Director
- *Ironside* (1967), Director

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