Restrictions on Access
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Preferred Citation
Biography
Scope and Content
Organization and Arrangement
Title: Herbert Leonard papers
Collection number: PASC 29
Contributing Institution:
UCLA Library Special Collections
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
91.0 linear ft.
(181 boxes )
Date (inclusive): 1957-1977
Abstract: Throughout his career, producer Herbert Leonard was involved with hundreds of television and motion picture projects. The
collection consists of television and motion picture scripts, production material, correspondence, budgets, contracts, and
business records.
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Library Special Collections
for paging information.
Creator:
Leonard, Herbert B.
Restrictions on Access
Open for research. STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Library
Special Collections for paging information.
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Property rights to the physical object belong to the UC Regents. Literary rights, including copyright, are retained by the
creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright
owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of Herbert Leonard, 1979.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Herbert Leonard papers (Collection PASC 29). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young
Research Library, UCLA.
Biography
Herbert B. Leonard was born in New York City on Oct. 8, 1922. He began his career in the entertainment industry working for
Columbia pictures in 1940, served in World War II as a naval aviator from 1941-46, and resumed his career in the late 1940's
as a production manager for Sam Katzman Productions. Leonard left Sam Katzman Productions to form Herbert B. Leonard Productions
in 1954,subsequently producing the popular children's television series
The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin. Over the next 20 years, Leonard formed multiple production companies including Norbert Productions, Inc. with Norman Blackburn,
Lancer Productions, Wilbert Productions, Inc. with Cinefilm Inc., Shelle Processions, Inc., and Leonard Films, Inc. Throughout
his career he produced hundreds of television and motion picture projects including such television series as
Circus Boy,
Tales of Bengal Lancers ,
Rescue 8,
Naked City and
Route 66 and the motion picture
Popi for United Artists. Leonard died on October 14 2006 of cancer.
Scope and Content
Collection consists of materials related to the career of producer Herbert Leonard. Includes television and motion picture
scripts, production material, correspondence, budgets, contracts, and business records. Television series include
Rescue 8,
Tallahasee 7000, and
The 77th Bengal Lancers, and significant runs of
Naked city,
Route 66,
Circus boy, and
The Adventures of Rin Tin, Tin. Motion picture materials include,
Going Home (1971),
Popi (1969), and
The Perils of Pauline (1967). The business files consist mainly of company records related to Leonard's production companies.
Organization and Arrangement
Arranged in the following series:
- Business files
- Motion Picture projects
- Television projects
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Leonard, Herbert B., -- Archives.
Motion picture producers and directors -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archival resources.
Television producers and directors -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archival resources.