Question: Who directed Jim Aton in a 1969 film?
Context: James G. Aton (1925 – September 16, 2008), best known as Jim Aton or Jimmy Aton, was an American jazz bassist, pianist, vocalist and composer.  He worked with numerous notable artists including Billie Holiday, Anita O'Day and Bill Evans.  He appeared in films such as "Bop Girl Goes Calypso" (1957) with the Bobby Troup Trio, "Roustabout" (1964) with Elvis Presley and Barbara Stanwyck, and "They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? " (1969) with Jane Fonda. Bop Girl Goes Calypso is a 1957 American United Artists film directed by Howard W. Koch and starring Judy Tyler.  It featured Calypso music, and music by the Bobby Troup Trio and bassist Jim Aton. When You're Strange is a 2009 documentary film about the American rock band the Doors.  It is written and directed by Tom DiCillo and for the first time makes material from Jim Morrison's 1969 film fragment "" publicly available. They Shoot Horses, Don't They?  is a 1969 American drama film directed by Sydney Pollack.  The screenplay by James Poe and Robert E. Thompson is based on the 1935 novel of the same name by Horace McCoy.  It focuses on a disparate group of characters desperate to win a Depression-era dance marathon and the opportunistic emcee (MC) who urges them on to victory.  It stars Jane Fonda, Michael Sarrazin, Susannah York, Bruce Dern, Bonnie Bedelia, and Gig Young.  Young won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance, while Fonda and York were nominated for the Academy Awards for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress respectively. The Rain People is a 1969 film directed by Francis Ford Coppola.  Alongside Shirley Knight, leading players are James Caan and Robert Duvall, both of whom would later work with Coppola in "The Godfather".  Future film director and Coppola friend George Lucas worked as an aide on this film, and made a short making-of documentary film, "Filmmaker", about it.  The film also won the Golden Shell at the 1969 San Sebastian Film Festival. Lou Lombardo (February 15, 1932 – May 8, 2002) was an American filmmaker whose editing of the 1969 film "The Wild Bunch" has been called "seminal".  In all, Lombardo is credited on more than twenty-five feature films.  Noted mainly for his work as a film and television editor, he also worked as a cameraman, director, and producer.  In his obituary, Stephen Prince wrote, "Lou Lombardo's seminal contribution to the history of editing is his work on "The Wild Bunch" (1969), directed by Sam Peckinpah.  The complex montages of violence that Lombardo created for that film influenced generations of filmmakers and established the modern cinematic textbook for editing violent gun battles."  Several critics have remarked on the "strange, elastic quality" of time in the film, and have discerned the film's influence in the work of directors John Woo, Quentin Tarantino, Kathryn Bigelow, and the Wachowskis, among others.  While Lombardo's collaboration with Peckinpah lasted just a few years, his career was intertwined with that of director Robert Altman for more than thirty years.  Lombardo edited Altman's 1971 film "McCabe & Mrs. Miller" (1971), which had "a radical approach to the use of dialogue and indeed other sound, both in and beyond the frame."  Towards the end of his career Lombardo edited "Moonstruck" (1987) and two other films directed by Norman Jewison.  While his editing is now considered "revolutionary" and "brilliant", Lombardo was never nominated for editing awards during his career. Mon oncle Benjamin ("My Uncle Benjamin") is a 1969 French film directed by Édouard Molinaro, starring Jacques Brel and Claude Jade.  The film is based on a once-popular French comic novel "Mon oncle Benjamin" by (1842).  The 1969 film "Ne Goryuy!  (Don't Grieve)", directed by the Georgian Georgi Daneliya, is also based on Tillier's novel.  The film was released on 28 November 1969. Frank A. Eyman (b. 1898, Illinois - d. 1984, Phoenix) was a prison warden, who appeared in a couple of movies as a prison warden.  One of them was the 1969 film "Riot" that starred Jim Brown and Gene Hackman.  He was also one of the policemen that captured John Dillinger. "Ballad of Easy Rider" is a song written by Roger McGuinn with input from Bob Dylan (although Dylan is not credited as a co-writer) for the 1969 film, "Easy Rider".  The song was initially released in August 1969 on the "Easy Rider" soundtrack album as a Roger McGuinn solo performance.  It was later issued in an alternate version as a single by McGuinn's band The Byrds on October 1, 1969.  The Byrds' single reached #65 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 and was issued in most international territories, although it was not released in the United Kingdom.  Senior editor for "Rolling Stone" magazine David Fricke has described the song as perfectly capturing the social mood of late 1969 and highlighting "the weary blues and dashed expectations of a decade's worth of social insurrection." The Golden Age of Porn, or porno chic, refers to a 15-year period (around 1969–1984) in commercial American pornography, that spread internationally, in which sexually-explicit films experienced positive attention from mainstream cinemas, movie critics, and the general public.  It began with release of the 1969 film "Blue Movie" directed by Andy Warhol, and the 1970 film "Mona" produced by Bill Osco.  These films were the first adult erotic films depicting explicit sex to receive wide theatrical release in the United States.  Both influenced the making of films such as 1972's "Deep Throat" starring Linda Lovelace and directed by Gerard Damiano, "Behind the Green Door" starring Marilyn Chambers and directed by the Mitchell brothers, 1973's "The Devil in Miss Jones" also by Damiano, and 1976's "The Opening of Misty Beethoven" by Radley Metzger (considered by award-winning author Toni Bentley, the "crown jewel" of the Golden Age).
Answer: Sydney Pollack