The Canadian (film)
The Canadian is an extant 1926 American silent drama film produced by Famous Players- Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures.
It is based on a 1913 Broadway play," The Land of Promise", by W. Somerset Maugham.
The film was directed by William Beaudine and starred Thomas Meighan.
Meighan had costarred with Billie Burke in a 1917 silent film based on the same story," The Land of Promise".
In both films he plays the same part.
This film is preserved in the Library of Congress.
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 Land of Smiles (1930 film)
The Land of Smiles is a 1930 German operetta film directed by Max Reichmann and starring Richard Tauber, Mara Loseff and Hans Mierendorff.
It is an adaptation of the operetta" The Land of Smiles" composed by Franz Lehár.
Lehár himself appeared in the film in a small role.
The operetta was again adapted for a 1952 film" The Land of Smiles" starring Jan Kiepura.
Joseph Kaufman
Joseph Kaufman (1882 – February 1, 1918) was an American silent film actor and director prominent during the World War I years.
He was born in Washington, D.C. and died in New York City very early on during the influenza pandemic of 1918.
His wife was silent film star Ethel Clayton.
Kaufman started out as an actor appearing on Broadway in 1903 with Maude Adams in "The Pretty Sister of Jose".
He eventually changed to acting in and then directing silent films, his output being numerous short films.
As American films began to expand to feature length Kaufman followed suit and proved particularly adept and popular at directing beautiful Broadway actresses including his wife Ethel Clayton.
He directed Pauline Frederick, Marguerite Clark, and Billie Burke.
His last film, "The Song of Songs" (1918), starred Elsie Ferguson.
As actor he is reported to have had three teeth knocked out in a screen fight with actor Earl Metcalfe.
Following his death in February 1918, both of his parents died—his mother on April 9, 1918 and his father on April 18, 1918.
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.
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.
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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.
The Land of Promise
The Land of Promise is a 1917 American silent comedy drama film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures.
It was directed by Joseph Kaufman and starred Billie Burke and Thomas Meighan.
The film is based on the 1913 play "The Land of Promise" by W. Somerset Maugham, in which Burke starred.
The film was remade in 1926 by Paramount as "The Canadian" with Thomas Meighan reprising his role as Frank Taylor.

Question: Where was the director of film The Land Of Promise born?
Answer: Washington