Malcolm Leo

{{short description|American film director and producer}}

Malcolm Leo is an American film director and producer best known for directing documentaries about Elvis Presley (This Is Elvis), about The Beach Boys (The Beach Boys: An American Band) and about some of the important figures in the history of rock and roll (Heroes of Rock and Roll).{{cite news|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/jerry-garcia-documentary-in-the-works-20120105|title=Jerry Garcia Documentary in the Works|date=January 5, 2012|publisher=Rolling Stone|accessdate=4 September 2012}}{{cite magazine|last=Zuckerman|first=Fey|date=9 February 1985|title=Vestron Offers Beach Boys Verité|magazine=Billboard|volume=97|issue=6|pages=28|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uCQEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA1946|accessdate=4 September 2012}} Leo is currently working on a documentary about Jerry Garcia based on a three-hour interview he recorded in 1987.{{cite news|url=https://deadline.com/2012/01/jerry-garcia-back-from-the-grateful-dead-210019/|title=Jerry Garcia Back From The Grateful Dead|last=Finke, Nikki|author-link=Nikki Finke|date=January 4, 2012|website=Deadline Hollywood|access-date=4 September 2012}}