Bill Smith (footballer, born 1897)
William Thomas Smith( born 9 April 1897, date of death unknown) was an English professional footballer.
Thomas Scott (diver)
Thomas Scott( 1907- date of death unknown) was an English diver.
Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.
Laurence Trimble
Laurence Norwood Trimble (February 15, 1885 – February 8, 1954) was an American silent film director, writer and actor.
Trimble began his film career directing Jean, the Vitagraph Dog, the first canine to have a leading role in motion pictures.
He made his acting debut in the 1910 silent "Saved by the Flag", directed scores of films for Vitagraph and other studios, and became head of production for Florence Turner's independent film company in England (1913–1916).
Trimble was most widely known for his four films starring Strongheart, a German Shepherd dog he discovered and trained that became the first major canine film star.
After he left filmmaking he trained animals exclusively, particularly guide dogs for the blind.
Peter Levin
Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre.
The Auction Block
The Auction Block is a 1926 American silent comedy film directed by Hobart Henley.
The film stars Charles Ray and Eleanor Boardman.
It is written by Fanny and Frederic Hatton and is based on the novel of the same name by Rex Beach.
It is considered a lost film.
The film is a remake of the 1917 film of the same name, released by Goldwyn production starring Rubye De Remer and Tom Powers.
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."
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.
The Auction Block (1917 film)
The Auction Block is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by Laurence Trimble and starring Rubye De Remer.
The film was produced by Rex Beach, upon whose novel, "The Auction Block", the film is based.
It is not known whether the film currently survives.
The film was remade as a comedy in 1926 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer starring Charles Ray and Eleanor Boardman.
Vera Bell
Vera Bell or Vera Alberta or Albertha Bell( born 1906; date of death unknown) was a Jamaican poet, short- story writer and playwright.
Her 1948 poem" Ancestor on the Auction Block" has been anthologized several times although a 2005 review of" The Oxford Book of Caribbean Verse" says" some of the earlier poems survive only as amusing museum pieces, such as Vera Bell's" Ancestor on the Auction Block.
The poem is described by Laurence A. Breiner in his" An Introduction to West Indian Poetry"( 1998) as" a poem whose crux is the poet's troubled relation to the poet's ancestral subject/ object", and Breiner cites George Lamming as placing the poem" squarely at a liminal moment in the process of establishing contact with a previously objectified or fetishized Other".

Question: When did the director of film The Auction Block (1917 Film) die?
Answer: February 8, 1954