{{Short description|American film director and producer (1914–2011)}} [[File:Life Goes On lobby card.jpg|thumb|Lobby card for ''Life Goes On'' with "Harry M. Popkin Presents Louise Beavers" logo inset]] '''Leo C. Popkin''' (1914–2011) was a film director and producer in the United States. His brother '''Harry M. Popkin''' was the executive producer of Million Dollar Productions, a partnership that included Ralph Cooper.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://scvhistory.com/scvhistory/cp3908.htm|title=SCVHistory.com CP3908 | Val Verde | History of Million Dollar Productions; Written for Cornerstone Time Capsule, 4-16-1939|website=scvhistory.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GchbAAAAQBAJ&dq=leo+popkin+film&pg=PA42|title=Black Lenses, Black Voices: African American Film Now|first=Mark A.|last=Reid|date=March 25, 2005|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield Publishers|isbn=9780742568617|via=Google Books}}</ref>
He managed African American movie theaters in Los Angeles.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FaiMDwAAQBAJ&dq=leo+popkin+film&pg=PT139|title=Hollywood Riots: Violent Crowds and Progressive Politics in American Film|first=Doug|last=Dibbern|date=December 17, 2015|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing|isbn=9780857729910|via=Google Books}}</ref> He is known for his gangster films.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Evxm9Wd6P6EC&dq=leo+popkin+film&pg=PA98|title=African Americans and Popular Culture [3 volumes]|first=Todd|last=Boyd|date=October 30, 2008|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=9780313064081|via=Google Books}}</ref>
He and his brother Harry M. Popkin (1906 – October 7, 1991)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2baa259087|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200414125530/https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2baa259087|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 14, 2020|title=Harry M. Popkin|website=BFI}}</ref> worked on movies together.
==Filmography== *''The Flaming Crisis'' (1924), co-director *''The Duke Is Tops'' (1938), producer<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaahc_2013.118.103?destination=edan-search/collection_search?edan_q=%252A%253A%252A&edan_fq%255B0%255D=p.edanmdm.indexedstructured.name%253A%2522Popkin%252C%2520Harry%2520M.%2522&edan_local=1&op=Search|title=Lobby card for the Duke is Tops|website=nmaahc.si.edu}}</ref> *''Gang Smashers'' (1938), director *''Reform School'' (1939), director *''While Thousands Cheer'' (1940), director *''Four Shall Die'' (1940), co-director *''My Dear Secretary'' (1948), producer<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://link.livebrary.com/portal/My-dear-secretary-Harry-M.-Popkin-presents-a/6d0WI2nHFsk/|title=My dear secretary - Public Libraries of Suffolk County, New York|first1=Alpha Video|last1=Distributors|first2=Laraine|last2=Day|first3=Kirk|last3=Douglas|first4=Charles|last4=Martin|first5=Harry M.|last5=Popkin|first6=Helen|last6=Walker|first7=Keenan|last7=Wynn|website=link.livebrary.com}}</ref> *''D.O.A.'' (1949),<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PrjEVDjO6g8C&dq=leo+popkin+film&pg=PA325|title=Dreams and Dead Ends: The American Gangster Film|first=Jack|last=Shadoian|date=January 16, 2003|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780198032632|via=Google Books}}</ref> producer *''Impact'' (1949), producer *''Champagne for Caesar'' (1950), co-producer *''The Well'' (1951), co-director and co-producer
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