Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.
The Cockleshell Heroes
The Cockleshell Heroes is a 1955 British Technicolor war film with Trevor Howard, Anthony Newley, Christopher Lee, David Lodge and José Ferrer, who also directed.
Set during the Second World War, it is a fictionalised account of Operation Frankton, the December 1942 raid on German cargo shipping by British Royal Marines, when Special Boat Service commandos infiltrated Bordeaux Harbour using folding kayaks.
It was the first Warwick Film to be filmed in CinemaScope.
Producer Cubby Broccoli would go on to produce films about another famous commander of the Royal Navy in the James Bond franchise.
It was one of the top British box office hits of 1956.
José Ferrer
José Vicente Ferrer de Otero y Cintrón (January 8, 1912 – January 26, 1992), known as José Ferrer, was a Puerto Rican actor and theatre and film director.
He was the first Puerto Rican-born actor, as well as the first Hispanic actor, to win an Academy Award (in 1950 for "Cyrano de Bergerac").
In 1947, Ferrer won the Tony Award for his theatrical performance of "Cyrano de Bergerac", and in 1952, he won the Distinguished Dramatic Actor Award for "The Shrike", and also the Outstanding Director Award for directing the plays "The ShrikeThe Fourposter", and "Stalag 17".
Ferrer's contributions to American theatre were recognized in 1981, when he was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.
In 1985, he received the National Medal of Arts from Ronald Reagan, becoming the first actor to receive that honor.
Michael Govan
Michael Govan( born 1963) is the director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art since 2006.
Prior to this, Govan worked as the director of the Dia Art Foundation in New York City.
Bill Sparks
William Edward" Bill" Sparks DSM
( 5 September 1922 – 1 December 2002) was a British Royal Marine Commando in World War II.
He was the last survivor of the" Cockleshell Heroes" of Operation Frankton in 1942; a team of commandos who paddled 85 miles from the Bay of Biscay up the Gironde estuary to Bordeaux in German occupied France, to plant limpet mines on merchant ships supplying the Nazi war machine.
Dana Blankstein
Dana Blankstein- Cohen( born March 3, 1981) is the director of the Israeli Academy of Film and Television.
She is a film director, and an Israeli culture entrepreneur.
Robert Desmond
Robert Desmond( 1928–2002) was a British film and television actor of the 1950s and 1960s.
He started out as a juvenile performer, making his film debut in 1948's" The Guinea Pig" and recreated his television role of Spud Parker the following year in the film version of" Boys in Brown".
He went on to appear in" The Cockleshell Heroes"( 1955)," Indiscreet"( 1958)," The Ugly Duckling"( 1959)," Sink the Bismarck!"( 1960)," The Bulldog Breed"( 1960)," The Best of Enemies"( 1961) and" The Great Escape"( 1963).
On television he appeared in popular sitcom" The Army Game" as Private Billy Baker and had recurring roles in soap operas" Crossroads"( as Tod Miller) and" Compact"( as Adrian Coombs).
Other television appearances include" The Adventures of Robin Hood ITV Play of the Week" and" The Avengers".
John Farrell (businessman)
John Farrell is the director of YouTube in Latin America.
Dick Raikes
Lieutenant Commander Richard Prendergast Raikes( 21 January 1912 – 24 May 2005) was an officer in the Royal Navy notable for being the commanding officer of the submarine HMS" Tuna" that launched the canoes during Operation Frankton in 1942.
His part in the operation was portrayed in the 1955 war film" The Cockleshell Heroes" where he was played by Christopher Lee.
Peter Levin
Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre.

Question: Which country the director of film The Cockleshell Heroes is from?
Answer: Puerto Rican