From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Thomas Leo McCarey (October 3, 1898 – July 5, 1969) was an American film director, screenwriter and producer. During his lifetime he was involved in nearly 200 movies, especially comedies. French director Jean Renoir once said that "Leo McCarey understood people better than any other Hollywood director." Description above from the Wikipedia article Leo McCarey, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

KNOWN FOR

The Ed Sullivan Show
1958
Screen Director's Playhouse
1955
An Affair to Remember
1957
The Bells of St. Mary's
1945
Ruggles of Red Gap
1935
My Favorite Wife
1940
Move Over, Darling
1963
Christopher Closeup
Love Affair
1994
The Awful Truth
1937
Make Way for Tomorrow
1937
Duck Soup
1933

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Acting
5
Directing
107
Writing
74
Producing
16
Sound
1
2002
Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1958
The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
1952
My Son John
as John Jefferson (voice) (uncredited)
1951
The Screen Director
as Self (staged 'archive' footage) (uncredited)
1937
Make Way for Tomorrow
as Passerby / Man in Overcoat / Carpet Sweeper (uncredited)