Jack Couffer
Jack Couffer A.S.C. (born December 7, 1924 in Upland, California) is an American cinematographer, film and television director, and author.
Couffer has specialized on documentary films, often involving nature and animal cinematography.
Couffer was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Cinematography for his work on the film version of the novel "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" (1974).
Couffer served in the United States Army during the Second World War; based on his war experience, he subsequently wrote a book about the "Bat Bomb" project to use bats to deliver incendiary bombs.
Following the war Couffer studied at the University of Southern California School of Cinema-Television.
Couffer has described his subsequent career as follows:
Among many other projects with Disney, Couffer wrote, directed, and filmed the documentary "The Legend of the Boy and the Eagle" (1967).
Couffer has also worked on numerous independent and major studio films and television shows.
Couffer was credited as a cinematographer for the influential, experimental documentary "The Savage Eye" (1959), and received his nomination for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography for the film "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" (1973).
He had worked with Joseph Strick on "The Savage Eye", and Strick co-produced two documentary films directed and written by Couffer, including "Ring of Bright Water" (1969) and
"The Darwin Adventure" (1972).
In addition to his book about the "Bat Bomb," Couffer has published ten other books of non-fiction and fiction.
Brian Saunders (weightlifter)
Brian Saunders( date of birth and death unknown) was a male weightlifter who competed for England.
Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.
James Galloway (film editor)
James Galloway( February 16, 1928 – November 13, 1996) was a film editor who was nominated at the 46th Academy Awards.
He was nominated for the film" Jonathan Livingston Seagull".
This was in the category of Best Film Editing.
He also has been nominated for multiple Emmy awards for made for TV films.
He also contributed to TV shows like" Remington Steele".
Galloway died in 1996.
Jonathan Livingston Seagull (film)
Jonathan Livingston Seagull is a 1973 American drama film directed by Hall Bartlett, adapted from the novella of the same name by Richard Bach.
The film tells the story of a young seabird who, after being cast out by his stern flock, goes on an odyssey to discover how to break the limits of his own flying speed.
The film was produced by filming actual seagulls, then superimposing human dialogue over it.
The film's voice actors included James Franciscus in the title role, and Philip Ahn as his mentor, Chang.
Whereas the original novella was a commercial success, the film version was poorly received by critics and barely broke even at the box office, though it was nominated for two Academy Awards:
Best Cinematography and Best Film Editing.
The soundtrack album, written and recorded by Neil Diamond, was a critical and commercial success, earning Diamond a Grammy Award and a Golden Globe Award.
Raymond Kelley
Raymond" Ray" Kelley is an American cellist and record producer.
He is one of the cellists on and, and Grammy Award winning" Jonathan Livingston Seagull" soundtrack album.
Since 1956, he has performed classical music for six years in the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, then five years with the Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestra until 1968.
Kelley was a part of a Hollywood session musician group named the Abnuceals Emuukha Electric Symphony Orchestra from 1959 to 1974.
He has played cello on many major recording artists' albums over the years.
In 1988, he founded his own record label, Resort Music, Inc.
Etan Boritzer
Etan Boritzer( born 1950) is an American writer of children ’s literature who is best known for his book" What is God?" first published in 1989.
His best selling" What is?" illustrated children's book series on character education and difficult subjects for children is a popular teaching guide for parents, teachers and child- life professionals.
Boritzer gained national critical acclaim after" What is God?" was published in 1989 although the book has caused controversy from religious fundamentalists for its universalist views.
The other current books in the" What is?" series include
What is Love?,
What is Death?,
What is Beautiful?,
What is Funny?,
What is Right?,
What is Peace?,
What is Money?,
What is Dreaming?,
What is a Friend?,
What is True?,
What is a Family?,
What is a Feeling?"
The series is now also translated into 15 languages.
Boritzer was first published in 1963 at the age of 13 when he wrote an essay in his English class at Wade Junior High School in the Bronx, New York on the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
His essay was included in a special anthology by New York City public school children compiled and published by the New York City Department of Education.
Boritzer now lives in Venice, California and maintains his publishing office there also.
He has helped numerous other authors to get published through" How to Get Your Book Published!" programs.
Boritzer is also a yoga teacher who teaches regular classes locally and guest- teaches nationally.
He is also recognized nationally as an erudite speaker on" The Teachings of the Buddha."
Eleanor Friede
Eleanor Friede( d. 2008) was an American book editor and literary agent, best known for bringing the novella" Jonathan Livingston Seagull" to publication.
Friede was born Eleanor Kask in Rochester, New York and grew up in Valley Stream.
She graduated with honors from Hofstra University and shortly thereafter went to work for World Publishing in publicity and marketing.
She married Donald Friede, a World Publishing editor, in 1951.
He died in 1965.
Friede was working as a marketing director at Macmillan in 1968 when company president Jeremiah Kaplan convinced her to become an editor.
A year later she persuaded Macmillan to buy" Jonathan Livingston Seagull", a fable about a seagull who breaks from his flock in search of freedom.
The novella by Richard Bach sold more than three million copies in hardcover.
In 1974, Friede received her own imprint at Delacorte Press.
Following Delacorte's purchase by Doubleday in the early 1980s she launched Eleanor Friede Books, a literary agency.
One of the books published under the Delacorte Press was" Somewhere a Cat is Waiting", a collection of three of the late author Derek Tangye's book, whose works were affectionately referred to as' The Minack Chronicles'.
See https://minack.info
This particular book was published specifically for the American market and Eleanor actually visited the Tangye's to discuss the book.
It was published in 1976, with an English version being published in 1977.
Eleanor Friede died July 14, 2008, at the age of 78.
Theodred II (Bishop of Elmham)
Theodred II was a medieval Bishop of Elmham.
The date of Theodred's consecration unknown, but the date of his death was sometime between 995 and 997.
Hall Bartlett
Hall Bartlett (November 27, 1922 – September 7, 1993) was an American film producer, director, and screenwriter.

Question: When was the director of film Jonathan Livingston Seagull (Film) born?
Answer: November 27, 1922