Template:Realworld Leo Penn (born Auguest 27, 1921 in Lawrence, MA; died August 5, 1998 in Los Angeles, CA) directed TOS: "The Enemy Within".
Outside Star Trek, Penn helmed well over 400 primetime hours on a wide variety of series, ranging from Star Trek to I Spy to Diagnosis Murder. In 1973, he received an Emmy for directing a two-hour episode of Columbo titled "Any Port in a Storm." Before becoming a director, he acted on stage and in a few feature films, beginning with Shame (1945). His film career had just begun when Penn was blacklisted after attending a pro-union meeting with other actors.
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