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Leo Penn (August 27, 1921 – September 5, 1998) was an American actor and Emmy Award-winning director of such popular television shows as St. Elsewhere, Kojak and Trapper John, M.D.
. He was married to actress Eileen Ryan, and is the father of singer Michael Penn and actors Sean Penn and the late Chris Penn. Penn's parents were Russian and Lithuanian Jews of apparent Spanish extraction (the name was originally Piñon, allegedly altered by officials at Ellis Island).

Penn was born in Lawrence, MA in 1921. In the late 1940s, during the early part of his career, film studio executives placed Leo Penn on the Hollywood blacklist after he attended a pro-union meeting with other actors. Penn refused to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee during the McCarthy era. Unable to work in film, Penn turned to Broadway, where the Actors' Equity Association had refused to go along with the ban. In 1954, he won the Theatre World Award for his performance in the play The Girl on the Via Flaminia.

He died of lung cancer at the age of 77 on September 5, 1998 in Los Angeles, California.

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