Wale Adebanwi
Wale Adebanwi( born 1969) is a Nigerian- born first Black Rhodes Professor at St Antony's College, Oxford.
Milton Rosmer
Milton Rosmer (4 November 1881 – 7 December 1971) was a British actor, film director and screenwriter.
He made his screen debut in "The Mystery of a Hansom Cab" (1915) and continued to act in theatre, film and television until 1956.
In 1926 he directed his first film "The Woman Juror" and went on to direct another 16 films between 1926 and 1938.
He died in Chesham, Buckinghamshire in 1971.
Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn
Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn is a 1935 British film melodrama film starring Tod Slaughter and Eric Portman.
It was directed by Milton Rosmer.
It is based on the true story of the 1827 Red Barn Murder.
The film is also known as Murder in the Red Barn( short UK title).
The film is based on the popular 19th century melodramas about the case and is highly theatrical, with an opening in which all the characters are introduced by a Master of Ceremonies in front of a painted backdrop, but is also slightly more lavishly produced and cinematically inventive than the later films directed by Tod Slaughter's producer George King.
Slaughter gives a full- throated over- the- top performance in a calculatedly melodramatic style, encouraging the audience to vicariously share in his villainy; this approach became his trademark and gives his films a cult status of their own peculiar kind.
Maria Marten (1928 film)
Maria Marten is a 1928 British silent drama film directed by Walter West starring Trilby Clark, Warwick Ward and Dora Barton.
It is based on the real story of the Red Barn Murder in the 1820s, and is one of five film versions of the events.
The film shifted the action to fifty years earlier to the height of the Georgian era.
This was the last of the silent film adaptations of the Maria Marten story, and its success paved the way for the much better 1935 sound film remake starring Tod Slaughter.
A 35 mm print of the 1928 silent film exists in the British Film Institute's archives.
Claude Weisz
Claude Weisz is a French film director born in Paris.
The Crimes of Stephen Hawke
The Crimes of Stephen Hawke is a 1936 British historical melodrama film directed by George King and starring Tod Slaughter as the nefarious Stephen Hawke- who masquerades as the' Spine- Breaker'.
It also features Marjorie Taylor, D. J. Williams and Eric Portman.
It was made at Shepperton Studios, with sets designed by Philip Bawcombe.
This is the third of Tod Slaughter's film outings, billed as a' new- old melodrama'.
In the introduction Slaughter appears in person, in a BBC studio, where he describes with relish his murderous activities in his two previous films:" Maria Marten or Murder in the Red Barn"( 1935) and( 1936).
In the film Slaughter plays a seemingly kindly money- lender who dotes on his daughter Julia.
He has however a double life as the notorious' Spine- Breaker', Victorian England's most maniacal serial killer.
His nefarious activities are eventually detected by his daughter's suitor Matthew Trimble, the son of one of his victims, who after pursuing and failing to catch him somewhat charitably opines to his daughter:
In the end Slaughter comes out of hiding to kill another unwelcome suitor of his daughter, before falling to his death from the roof of his house in a dramatic final exit.
Henry Moore (cricketer)
Henry Walter Moore( 1849 – 20 August 1916) was an English- born first- class cricketer who spent most of his life in New Zealand.
Gordon Douglas (director)
Gordon Douglas( December 15, 1907 – September 29, 1993) was an American film director, who directed many different genres of films over the course of a five- decade career in motion pictures.
He was a native of New York City.
Lester Raymer
Lester Wilton Raymer( September 24, 1907 – 1991) was an American artist.
Most well known for his paintings, Raymer worked in many mediums including prints, fiber art, metal work, mosaics, ceramics, wood carving, jewelry, cast concrete, sculptures, tin ornaments, furniture, toys, and more.
The Red Barn Studio is filled with Raymer's art and handiwork., from paintings and prints to ceramics and metalwork, from woodcarving to stitchery, furniture and jewelry.
His work is influenced by his love for the world's great painters, especially the Spanish masters, the Southwest and Mexico, religious symbolism, and folk art.
Raymer considered painting and printmaking is most important work, which he studied at the Chicago Art Institute, be he worked in almost every medium.
Each year he created a special Christmas gift for his wife Ramona.
These gifts included painted boxes, candlesticks, and other decorative items.
In 1960, Lester began the tradition of making toys every Christmas for Ramona.
He made 53 toys over a period of 30 years.
Examples of these gifts and toys are on display at the Red Barn Studio.
Much of Lester Raymer's art and craftwork, including the Red Barn Studio, was made from recycled materials.
Raymer took ordinary things, generally discarded and mundane objects, and transformed them into beautiful works of art and crafts, gifts, toys and decorative elements for the studio.
The Red Barn Studio was restored and opened as a museum to the public in September 1997.
Viva Knievel!
Viva Knievel! is a 1977 American action- adventure film directed by Gordon Douglas and starring Evel Knievel( as himself), Gene Kelly, and Lauren Hutton.

Question: Which film has the director born first, Viva Knievel! or Maria Marten, Or The Murder In The Red Barn?
Answer: Maria Marten, Or The Murder In The Red Barn