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Leo Eaton is today a respected American documentary filmmaker. THE TRAVELING YEARS, A MEMOIR OF PUPPETS, PORNO & PENURY follows his adventures for 16 years prior to settling in America, during which time he traveled the world as (in chronological order) one of the youngest television directors in Britain, a tequila-soaked lotus eater in Mexico, a boat builder in Canada, a pornographer in Los Angeles, an aspiring novelist back in Mexico, a university instructor in Texas, and a plumber and starving writer in Greece and Portugal.
After escaping from a childhood spent in English boarding schools, Leo joined the British film industry at eighteen on Roger Moores The Saint and within five years was directing iconic 1960s puppet series produced by Gerry Anderson, including Captain Scarlet & the Mysterons, Joe 90 and The Secret Service. After a passionate but disastrous love affair with a Hollywood starlet, he sailed by cargo ship to Mexico where he lived until his money ran out, hitchhiked to Canada where he worked as a boat builder and railroad baggage handler before taking to the road again and hitchhiking to Los Angeles where he wrote for a Mafia-run pornography publishing house and shared an office with cult filmmaker Ed Wood Jr. (played by Johnny Depp in Tim Burtons biopic of the same name).
Returning to Mexico as an aspiring novelist and promptly falling in love, Leo followed his future wife Jeri back to the University of Texas in Austin where he persuaded them to take him on as an instructor, teaching script writing and film to the same graduate students who made Texas Chainsaw Massacre. After two years the University discovered he had no degree so Leo and his wife returned briefly to England before settling in a small Cretan village as the only foreigners. For three years they were part of the village, making their own wine and raki (the fiery local spirit) and helping fellow villagers with everyday tasks like dynamiting septic tanks and shearing sheep. Only when tourism began to intrude on the village did Leo and Jeri, along with their two Cretan dogs, move on to a mountainside in Portugal where they lived through a bitter winter in an old peasant farmhouse with dirt floors and no bathroom, power, running water or glass in the windows. It was the final chapter in the Traveling Years before the desire to return to some semblance of comfort brought Leo and his wife back to America, where he has been making award-winning documentary films ever since.

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THE TRAVELING YEARS
A MEMOIR OF PUPPETS, PORNO & PENURY
Leo Eaton
Print ISBN: 9781483563084
eBook ISBN: 9781483563091
2016 Leo Eaton. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law.
CONTENTS
PREFACE
The Traveling Years is a personal memoir of my life from 1964 to 1980, during which time (in chronological order) I was one of youngest television directors in Britain, a tequila-soaked lotus eater in Mexico, a boat builder in Canada, a pornographer in Los Angeles, a budding novelist back in Mexico, an adjunct professor at the University of Texas and a penurious writer and plumber in Greece and Portugal. Over this same period I acquired and lost a number of girlfriends, including a glamorous Hollywood starlet and a hippy earth mother reputed to have been one of beat poet Allen Ginsbergs drug suppliers. I also acquired a wife, Jeri, who Ive managed to keep for more than 40 years. It was an exciting, dramatic, funny, wonderful, humbling, scary and character-building time that profoundly shaped the documentary filmmaker I then became.
I began writing this memoir after my son Alex asked to know more about his parents life before he was born. While it is designed primarily for family, friends and TV colleagues around the world, if you happen to find yourself reading it without the slightest clue of who I am, I hope youll find something in these pages to make you smile (or shudder) and think back to the time when you were young and foolish, as we all have been. It is drawn from a collection of articles, diary entries, and saved letters from the period, along with personal memories checked (where possible) against the memories of those who shared many of these adventures with me. There are also photographs that survived the many country moves Jeri and I made over the years.
I was fortunate to reach adulthood and travel during the twilight years of a world that has mostly disappeared. Growing up in a succession of boys boarding schools (and the British theater during vacations), I entered the British film industry right at the end of the old studio system when top creative talent was still frequently under long-term contract, allowing young and inexperienced assistant directors to learn from the best movie directors in the business.
I sailed to Mexico on an old cargo ship in the years before containerization made such ships an anachronism, and lived in a small Mexican hill town before drug cartels and tourism changed the country beyond recognition. I lived with a boat-builder in an old barn outside Toronto where his old neighbor told stories of the years he spent running whisky and rum across Lake Ontario during Prohibition.
In Los Angeles I shared an office with cult filmmaker Ed Wood Jr. (played by Johnny Depp in Tim Burtons biopic Ed Wood) where we wrote pornography for a Mafia-run publishing house while I tried unsuccessfully to break into Hollywood. And towards the end of the Traveling Years, my wife and I lived for three years in a small village on Crete as the only foreigners, before moving to Portugal and surviving the most miserable and penurious winter of our lives in an abandoned peasant farmhouse on a mountainside in the Algarve.
These years taught me the value of living life to the full, a lesson Ive tried to carry into my filmmaking. As a documentary producer, Ive been privileged to spend my life doing something I love, telling stories and opening windows into unique and unusual worlds so that television audiences across America and around the world can experience them and broaden their own horizons. It was the Traveling Years that gave me the courage to do so. I hope you enjoy the stories.
Leo Eaton, 2016
PART ONE
ENGLAND 1964 1969
Who am I? Its a question most of us ask ourselves many times in a lifetime. Am I the award-winning American documentary filmmaker who for the past thirty-five years has made hundreds of hours of childrens and prime time programs for American and international networks? Am I also the London-born wanderer who for more than a decade lived a peripatetic existence across Europe and the Americas dreaming of becoming the next Great British Writer? Or am I still at heart the English public-school boy born into the last privileged vestiges of Imperial Britain with an actress mother, an absentee father, and a childhood spent in a series of elite boarding schools where getting attention depended on ones ability to stand out from a mob of other boys?
Each stage of life is a foundation for the one that follows. Looking back across seventy year, my life divides into three distinct parts. Part One encompasses my first eighteen years of life. The product of an unsuccessful wartime marriage between a young actress and an equally young ex-soldier just beginning his search for the meaning of life, my principal caregiver was a nanny until my grandparents sent me off to boarding school at the age of four.
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