Cast & creator
Leo Penn
Best known for Columbo, Diagnosis: Murder, Diagnosis: Murder
Leonard Francis Penn (August 27, 1921 – September 5, 1998) was an American actor and director. He was the father of musician Michael Penn and actors Sean Penn and Chris Penn.
Also known as: Leo Z. Penn, Leonard Francis Penn
18
film credits
107
television credits
46
1947–1995 · acting roles
6.8
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (125)
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Columbo
Director
1971
Diagnosis: Murder
Leo Pepper
1993Diagnosis: Murder
Director
1993
Hawaii Five-O
Director
1969
Star Trek
Director
1966
Magnum, P.I.
Director
1980
The Fugitive
Director
1963
Mannix
Director
1967
Little House on the Prairie
Director
1974
Ironside
Director
1967
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957
St. Elsewhere
Director
1982
Cannon
Director
1971
Matlock
Father Fitzgerald
1986Matlock
Russ Lewis
1986Matlock
Spaulding
1986Matlock
Director
1986
Dr. Kildare
Director
1961Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
Director
1963
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Director
1962
Robert Montgomery Presents
Marshall Collins
1950
The Virginian
Director
1962
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
1955
Studio One
Morrow
1948Studio One
Peter
1948Studio One
Writer
1948
Jake and the Fatman
1987Jake and the Fatman
Director
1987
The Untouchables
Milton Tannenbaum
1959
Cagney & Lacey
Director
1982
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948
Starsky & Hutch
Director
1975
Hart to Hart
Director
1979
Ben Casey
1961Ben Casey
Dr. David McMillan
1961Ben Casey
Director
1961
Tales of the Unexpected
Director
1979
Remington Steele
Director
1982
The Name of the Game
Director
1968
Marcus Welby, M.D.
Director
1969
Trapper John, M.D.
Director
1979
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Walter Blake
1956
Gunsmoke
Director
1955
Fame
Director
1982
77 Sunset Strip
Director
1958
In the Heat of the Night
Director
1988
Kojak
Director
1973
One Step Beyond
Jed Horvath
1959
Amazing Stories
Fred
1985
The Detectives
1959
Lost in Space
Director
1965
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
Director
1964
The Bionic Woman
Director
1976
Switch
Director
1975
Police Story
Director
1973
Judd, for the Defense
Director
1967
Hardcastle and McCormick
Director
1983
Laredo
Director
1965
Room 222
Director
1969
I Spy
Director
1965
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
1951
Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
Director
1971
Navy Log
1955
Lancer
Director
1968Lux Video Theatre
Father Paul
1950
Ghost Story
Director
1972
Cain's Hundred
Larry Cram
1961
Boston Blackie
1951
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
Director
1966
Decoy
Lt. Larry Hayes
1957
Dangerous Assignment
1952
The Outcasts
Director
1968
The Eleventh Hour
Director
1962
Mike Hammer
Director
1984
The Aquanauts
Moe
1960
Movin' On
Director
1974
Bret Maverick
Director
1981
Mrs. Columbo
Director
1979
Harrigan and Son
1960
Father Murphy
Director
1981
Custer
Director
1967
Mr. Merlin
Director
1981
Straightaway
1961
Nasty Boys
Director
1990
The Asphalt Jungle
1961The Asphalt Jungle
Lonnie Peterson
1961
The Interns
Director
1970
Doctors' Hospital
Director
1975
What Really Happened to the Class of '65?
Director
1977
Birdman of Alcatraz
Eddie Kassellis (uncredited)
1962
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Sam Hodgekiss
1951
The Mississippi
Director
1983
New York Confidential
1959
The Law and Mr. Jones
Eddie Simms
1960
The Gertrude Berg Show
1961
Lucas Tanner
Director
1974
Blue Light
Director
1966
The Girl with Something Extra
Director
1973
Paper Dolls
Director
1984
The Veil
1958
The New Perry Mason
Director
1973
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
Director
1973
Little Women
Director
1978
The Crossing Guard
Hank
1995
Eischied
Director
1979
Don't Call Me Charlie
1962
Boone
Director
1983
Dundee and the Culhane
Director
1967
The Wild Life
Tom's Dad
1984
The Dark Secret of Harvest Home
Director
1978
A Man Called Adam
Director
1966
The Undercover Man
Sidney Gordon
1949
The Return of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer
Leo
1986
The Story on Page One
Morrie Goetz
1959
Judgment in Berlin
Director
1988Judgment in Berlin
Writer
1988
Hellinger's Law
Director
1981
Murder in Music City
Director
1979
Not Wanted
Steve Ryan
1949
Nasty Boys, Part 2: Lone Justice
Director
1990The Horse Dealers Daughter
Dr. Lloyd Sloan
1983
Quarantined
Director
1970Deadlock
Director
1967
Fall Guy
Tom Cochrane
1947
Sixth and Main
Doc
1977