while teaching at sarah lawrence, leach met then-students brian de palma and cynthia munroe. in collaboration with de palma and munroe, he produced, directed, and wrote the screenplay for the 1969 film "the wedding party", whose cast included a young robert de niro and jill clayburgh. he also directed the films "all's well that ends well" (1978) with frances conroy for television and a straight-to-video version of "coriolanus" (1979) with denzel washington and morgan freeman.