Leon Watkins

Leon Watkins graduated from Kennedy High School in Richmond, California. He subsequently joined the United States Marine Corps and became an official Marine Corps photographer for several years. It was during his tour of duty with the Marine Corps, that Leon had the honor of photographing the President of the United States, Ronald Reagan. Upon leaving the Marines, Leon began pursuing a career in the movie and television industry. After working on his first feature film, Glory (1989), as a stand-in and featured background, Leon founded The Walking Ghost of Black History Re-enactment Group. Leon hosted the premiere of Glory (1989) in Chicago, Illinois, in January 1990, representing The Walking Ghost of Black History and Glory (1989). Leon was featured in a LIFE magazine article in February 1990, and in New York Times in 1993. The Walking Ghost won first prize in the Veteran's Day Parade, Oakland, California, in November 1991. Leon also founded Capricorn One Productions, which enabled him to work with cable access programming and music video production in Denver, Colorado. Leon's interests include filmmaking, photography, and writing. He is particularly interested in Vietnam and Civil War history. Leon is a qualified photo lab technician and has free-lanced for historical documentation, radio promotional and music concerts. The ultimate career goals for Leon Watkins are related to the production of his own original stories as feature films. To that end, he is currently working on a project entitled "Closer Than Brothers," Copyright 1992, and hopes to eventually produce and/or direct this project, as well as many others.