Jesse E. Hobson
Jesse Edward Hobson( May 2, 1911 – November 5, 1970) was the director of SRI International from 1947 to 1955.
Prior to SRI, he was the director of the Armour Research Foundation.
Gillies MacKinnon
Gillies MacKinnon (born 8 January 1948, Glasgow) is a Scottish film director, writer and painter.
He attended the Glasgow School of Art where he studied mural painting.
Following this he became an art teacher and cartoonist, and about this time he traveled with a nomadic tribe in the Sahara for six months.
In the 1970s he studied at the Middlesex Polytechnic and in the 1980s in the National Film and Television School.
He made a short film called "Passing Glory" as his graduation piece, a dour recreation of Glasgow in the 1950s and 1960s.
It was premiered at the 1986 Edinburgh International Film Festival, where it won the first Scottish Film Prize.
Brian Kennedy (gallery director)
Brian Patrick Kennedy( born 5 November 1961) is an Irish- born art museum director who has worked in Ireland and Australia, and now lives and works in the United States.
He is currently the director of the Peabody Essex Museum.
He was the director of the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio from 2010 to 2019.
He was the director of the Hood Museum of Art from 2005 to 2010, and the National Gallery of Australia( Canberra) from 1997- 2004.
The Playboys
The Playboys is a 1992 Irish film directed by Gillies MacKinnon and starring Albert Finney, Aidan Quinn and Robin Wright.
The plot follows an unwed young mother whose life is transformed with the arrival of a travelling troupe of actors to her Irish village.
The script was written by Shane Connaughton, an Oscar nominee for "My Left Foot".
The film was shot in his native village Redhills, in County Cavan, Ireland.
Shane Connaughton
Shane Connaughton( born 4 April 1941 in Kingscourt, County Cavan) is an Irish writer and actor, probably best known as co-writer of the Academy Award- nominated screenplay for" My Left Foot".
He also co-wrote the screenplays for the Academy Award- winning 1980 short film" The Dollar Bottom" and 1992 film" The Playboys", as well as other screenplays and plays.
He won the Hennessy Award in 1985.
Connaughton is the author of the books" A Border Station"( 1989)," The Run of the Country"( 1991), and" Big Parts"( 2009).
He adapted" The Run of the Country" for the screen in 1995 and published a book about its filming," A Border Diary", the same year.
" A Border Station", a short story collection, was a bestseller in Ireland and was shortlisted for the Guinness Peat Award.
His first two books are both set in the County Cavan village of Redhills, where he grew up, and" The Playboys" and" The Run of the Country" were filmed there.
Connaughton attended Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and has worked as a theatre and film actor, appearing in" Coronation Street", Mike Leigh's" Four Days in July", Neil Jordan's" The Miracle", and" The Playboys", among other roles.
Connaughton is married and has two children.
He lives in London much of the time.
Olav Aaraas
Olav Aaraas( born 10 July 1950) is a Norwegian historian and museum director.
He was born in Fredrikstad.
From 1982 to 1993 he was the director of Sogn Folk Museum, from 1993 to 2010 he was the director of Maihaugen and from 2001 he has been the director of the Norwegian Museum of Cultural History.
In 2010 he was decorated with the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav.
Peter Levin
Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre.
Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.
S. N. Mathur
S.N. Mathur was the Director of the Indian Intelligence Bureau between September 1975 and February 1980.
He was also the Director General of Police in Punjab.
Gary Lewis (musician)
Gary Lewis( born Gary Harold Lee Levitch; July 31, 1945) is an American musician who was the leader of Gary Lewis& the Playboys.

Question: Where was the director of film The Playboys born?
Answer: Glasgow