Robert Leighton - Details

Biography

ROBERT LEIGHTON has collaborated with filmmaker Rob Reiner on each of his feature directorial efforts. Those films include This Is Spinal Tap, The Sure Thing, Stand By Me, The Princess Bride, When Harry Met Sally…, Misery, A Few Good Men, North, The American President, Ghosts Of Mississippi and The Story Of Us.. He received an Oscar nomination for his work on A Few Good Men.

Other motion picture credits include Castle Rock's The Green Mile, two Ron Shelton films, Bull Durham and Blaze, Life with Mikey, Courage Under Fire, Wavelength and Delusion.

Leighton was born in London, where he studied his craft at the London Film School. He first worked for the BBC as an assistant editor before emigrating to the U.S. in 1975.