Don Birrell
Don R. Birrell( 1922–2006) was director of the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, California from 1951 to 1953, and was the design director for the Nut Tree in Vacaville, California from 1953 until his retirement in 1990.
In addition to his design work at the Nut Tree, Birrell also created the Vacaville city logo, the logo for the" Vacaville Reporter" newspaper, and the artwork seen on the side of Raley's Supermarkets trucks.
Birrell was also a painter of landscape watercolors.
His house on Kendal Street in Vacaville was famously filled with examples of his design work for the Nut Tree.
The Nut Farm
The Nut Farm is a 1935 American film directed by Melville W. Brown.
Matt Corboy
Matt Corboy( born June 4, 1973) is an American actor.
He has appeared in both films and television series.
Elizabeth Tashjian
Elizabeth Tashjian was an artist and the founder of the Nut Museum in Old Lyme, Connecticut.
She championed nuts through the museum, and by creating portraits of a variety of nuts and nutcrackers.
She was the daughter of aristocratic Armenian immigrants and studied at the New York school of Applied Design for Women as well as the National Academy of Design.
Later in life, she appeared on the shows of Johnny Carson, David Letterman, Jay Leno, Howard Stern and Chevy Chase among others, to promote nuts and the Nut Museum.
At the age of seven, her parents divorced.
By the age of nine, Tashjian was a concert violinist living with her mother in New York City's Upper West Side.
Tashjian remained unmarried throughout her life.
In middle age, Tashjian followed her mother in becoming a Christian Science healer.
She also espoused a tongue- in- cheek theory that humans had possibly evolved from nuts.
In 1950, Tashjian and her mother moved into a large Gothic Revival mansion in Old Lyme.
Upon her father's death in 1958 she learned he had left her nothing.
She continued to live alone in her mansion following her mother's death in 1959.
Nuts were a lifelong passion.
At the New York School of Applied Design for Women and the National Academy of Design, Tashjian created many paintings of nuts and nutcrackers- themes she would continue throughout her life.
In 1972, Tashjian founded the Nut Museum in the mansion.
The collection contained only twenty nuts, and was composed largely of her own artwork including over one hundred paintings, twenty aluminum sculptures, nut art, nut jewelry and a Nativity scene made completely of nuts.
Many specimens were donated by visitors.
" The Nut Anthem" and" Nuts Are Beautiful", two songs composed by Tashjian, were performed for all visitors.
She hoped to expand the museum into a theme- park larger than Disneyland.
Tashjian claimed she did not know the pejorative use of the word" nut" until after establishing her museum, but made frequent comments suggesting she wanted to de-stigmatize the word and the people associated with it.
In 2002, after falling in to a coma, Tashjian was declared incompetent and a ward of the state.
Despite religious beliefs refusing medical treatment, she recovered, but was confined to a nursing home.
The contents of the Nut Museum were removed by Christopher B. Steiner, a professor of Art History and Museum Studies at Connecticut College, after he successfully petitioned the Old Lyme Probate Court to recognize the historic and artistic significance of the collection.
The mansion was sold to pay her debts.
Steiner remained a supporter and advocate for the rest of her life.
In 2004, an exhibition of Tashjian's artwork," The Nut Museum: Visionary Art of Elizabeth Tashjian" was held at the Lyman Allyn Museum in New London.
It was organized by Steiner.
In 2005, Tashjian was declared competent.
Her house had at this point twice been sold, when she began proceedings to have it returned.
The nut trees on the property had all been removed.
She died in 2007.
Theodore Reed
Theodore Reed( June 18, 1887 – February 22, 1959) was an American film director, producer and former president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Going Ape!
Going Ape! is a 1981 American comedy film directed by Jeremy Joe Kronsberg and produced by Paramount Pictures.
The original music score was composed by Elmer Bernstein( who would later compose music for a later similarly ape- themed comedy" Buddy").
This film starred Tony Danza as Foster, Stacey Nelkin as Cynthia, Jessica Walter as Fiona, Danny DeVito as Lazlo, and three orangutans.
The film was nominated for a Razzie Award for Worst Supporting Actor for DeVito.
In this comedy, the death of his rich circus performer father leaves Foster as the sole heir to a five million dollar estate—if he can keep his three pet orangutans safe and sound for the next two years.
With the help of his disgruntled girlfriend Cynthia and the apes' eccentric handler Lazlo, Foster must struggle to keep the outrageous primates out of trouble and away from a trio of bungling hitmen.
The Nut (1921 film)
The Nut is a 1921 American silent film comedy directed by Theodore Reed.
Fairbanks biographer Jeffrey Vance writes, "Admittedly a minor work, "The Nut" is frequently dismissed in critical assessments of Fairbanks's career.
This is unfortunate, for it contains some fascinating sequences and reveals much about the actor-producer's state of mind at the time it was made."
Vance also notes, "The picture is like a chaotic funhouse, filled with magical masquerades, illusions, and gimmicks of great momentary amusement."
Sylvie Joly
Sylvie Joly( 18 October 1934 – 4 September 2015) was a French actress and comedian.
She was best known for her roles in the films" Going Places"( 1974) and" Get Out Your Handkerchiefs"( 1978).
Jeremy Joe Kronsberg
Jeremy Joe Kronsberg is an American film director, producer and screenwriter who appeared in such films as" Every Which Way but LooseAny Which Way You Can" and" Going Ape!".
Satan Town
Satan Town is a 1926 American Western film featuring Harry Carey.
Prints of the film have survived.

Question: Do both films Going Ape! and The Nut (1921 Film) have the directors from the same country?
Answer: yes