Leo Eaton

Leo Eaton is an American documentary filmmaker responsible for hundreds of hours of prime time and children's television for networks in America and around the world. He has received many of television's top honors, including two News & Documentary Emmy Awards. His many credits as producer and/or executive producer include British historian Michael Wood's STORY OF INDIA and STORY OF CHINA, Bruce Feiler's SACRED JOURNEYS and ARTS & THE MIND with Lisa Kudrow. He produced National Geographic...See more

Leo Eaton is an American documentary filmmaker responsible for hundreds of hours of prime time and children's television for networks in America and around the world. He has received many of television's top honors, including two News & Documentary Emmy Awards. His many credits as producer and/or executive producer include British historian Michael Wood's STORY OF INDIA and STORY OF CHINA, Bruce Feiler's SACRED JOURNEYS and ARTS & THE MIND with Lisa Kudrow. He produced National Geographic Channel's Emmy Award-winning special CAN THE GULF SURVIVE? about the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and co-created and executive produced PBS's award-winning children's series ZOBOOMAFOO with the Kratt Brothers. His 2002 book IN SEARCH OF ANCIENT IRELAND, companion to his American & Irish television series of the same name, remains a popular seller. Before settling in the United States, British-born Leo Eaton spent 16 years traveled widely through Europe and the Americas, at one time sharing an office with cult filmmaker Ed Wood Jr. and directing iconic British puppet series like CAPTAIN SCARLET & THE MYSTERONS and JOE 90. These years are the subject of his 2016 memoir THE TRAVELING YEARS, A MEMOIR OF PUPPETS, PORNO & PENURY. Between 1969 and 1973 Leo Eaton spent much of each year in San Miguel d'Allende in Mexico and this time became the inspiration for CITY OF THE WHISPERING FOREST. Leo Eaton currently lives in Santa Fe, NM. See less