
Leonard R. Garner, Jr.
Biography
Leonard R. Garner Jr. is a director and assistant director, known for The Blues Brothers (1980), Rules of Engagement (2007) and Girlfriends (2000).
Known For & Full Filmography13 Titles

Drama Series - 2017, 16 episodes • as Doorman
A Los Angeles S.W.A.T. sergeant is assigned to lead a highly skilled unit in the community where he grew up. Torn between loyalty to the streets, where the cops are sometimes the enemy, and allegiance to his brothers in blue, he strategically straddles the two worlds.

Drama Series - 1982, 16 episodes • as Stage Manager
The story about a blue-collar Boston bar run by former sports star Sam Malone and the quirky and wonderful people who worked and drank there.

Drama Series - 1985, 16 episodes • as Reporter #1
After being duped and going bankrupt, model Maddie is convinced by David to become a partner in a detective agency. Together they solve various cases, while getting comfortable with each other.

Drama Series - 2015, 16 episodes • as Valet
Looking at the lives of former and current football players, the show follows former superstar Spencer Strasmore as he gets his life on track in retirement while mentoring other current and former players through the daily grind of the business of football.

Drama Series - 1984, 16 episodes • Main Cast Role
Two conservative men support their younger brother when he comes out as gay, and help him navigate being openly homosexual in 1980s Philadelphia.

Movie - 1989, 2h 15m • as Policeman #2
A skip tracer helps out a bail-jumper after her child is kidnapped by a group of ethno-nationalist thugs, of which her husband is a member, going by the name of Birthright. The baby is taken as leverage because, although initially oblivious, she has their money!

Drama Series - 2014, 16 episodes • as Cobrax
Mixels are mischievous creatures who live in tribes of three. They have the ability to combine with other Mixels, either within a single tribe or cross-combining to gain another tribe's abilities. All that is needed to combine are willing Mixels and a magical square known as a cubit. The colorful creatures have to look out for Nixels, who consider themselves superior and like to destroy Mixel combinations. Major Nixel, the group's leader, throws and kicks his underlings to steal cubits.

Drama Series - 1990, 16 episodes • Main Cast Role
The Bradys is a six-episode American drama series that aired on CBS in 1990. It was a revival of the early 1970s sitcom, The Brady Bunch, and was about the trials and tribulations of the extended Brady family some 15 years after the end of the earlier series. It followed two earlier short-lived spin-off/continuation series: The Brady Bunch Hour and The Brady Brides.

Movie - 1988, 2h 15m • as Howie
Almost 20 years after the start of the original "Brady Bunch" the kids are grown up and have kids of their own. Everyone is having a wonderful time back at the family house for Christmas, until Mike learns of a structural problem in one of the buildings he designed. As he is inspecting the problem, the building collapses, trapping him inside. As the whole family waits by the pile of rubble, they fear the worst. Will Dad be all right?

Movie - 2019, 2h 15m • as Pastor Samuel Raines
Overcome with grief, a rural woodworker builds a coffin to join his wife.

Movie - 2025, 2h 15m • as Self
A documentary that explores the turbulent, high-budget production of the 1980 musical-comedy classic The Blues Brothers, examining its chaotic shoot, legendary musical guest appearances, and lasting cultural legacy.

Drama Series - 1987, 16 episodes • as Carlo
Savvy Assistant District Attorney Catherine Chandler is saved by a noble, beast-like man named Vincent, who lives in a secret, utopian community beneath New York City. They share a psychic bond, and he protects her from above.
