Director
Leon Gast
90 years · Jersey City, New Jersey, USA · 13 films
Leon Gast is an American documentary film director, producer, cinematographer, and editor. His documentary When We Were Kings depicting the iconic heavyweight boxing match termed The Rumble in the Jungle between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman won the 1996 Academy Award for Documentary Feature and the Independent Spirit Award. Gast co-directed the 1977 documentary The Grateful Dead Movie with guitarist Jerry Garcia. The film captured the band's October 1974 five-night performance at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco. Gast also co-directed the 1983 film Hell's Angels Forever. A native of Jersey City, New Jersey, Gast studied dramatic arts at Columbia University, and in that same period worked the television series High Adventure with writer and broadcaster Lowell Thomas. Gast is also known for his still photography which has appeared in such magazines as Vogue, Esquire, and Harper's Bazaar. Gast's most recent project is a documentary entitled Smash His Camera, a film about paparazzi photographer Ron Galella. The film won "Best Director" of a documentary at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. Description above from the Wikipedia article Leon Gast, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Best known for
Filmography 13
The Grateful Dead Movie
2025 · Director
On YouTube Free
Manny
2014 · Director
On Plex
Smash His Camera
2010 · Director
On Philo
Soul Power
2009 · Producer
On fuboTV
B.B. King: Live - Most Famous Hits
2003 · Editor, Director
Pointer Sisters: All Night Long
2003 · Director, Producer
B.B. King: Live In Africa '74
1998 · Producer, Director
On Qello Concerts by Stingray Amazon Channel
When We Were Kings
1996 · Director, Producer
On HBO Max
Fallen Champ: The Untold Story of Mike Tyson
1993 · Editor
Hells Angels Forever
1983 · Director
The Grateful Dead Movie
1977 · Director
On YouTube Free
Salsa
1976 · Writer, Director
Our Latin Thing (Nuestra Cosa)
1972 · Director