John Farrell (businessman)
John Farrell is the director of YouTube in Latin America.
Dana Blankstein
Dana Blankstein- Cohen( born March 3, 1981) is the director of the Israeli Academy of Film and Television.
She is a film director, and an Israeli culture entrepreneur.
Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.
John Donatich
John Donatich is the Director of Yale University Press.
The Hostage (1967 film)
The Hostage is a 1967 Crown International low-budget motion picture starring Don O'Kelly, James Almanzar and Joanne Brown, with Leland Brown, John Carradine, and Harry Dean Stanton.
The film was directed by
Russell S. Doughten Jr. It was adapted for the screen by Robert Laning, based on the 1959 novel "The Hostage" by Henry Farrell.
When it was made, Don O'Kelly was a TV actor.
His career was cut short when he died shortly after making this movie.
This was one of Harry Dean Stanton's earliest films.
The plot centers on a young boy who becomes a hostage after he is accidentally closed inside a moving van.
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.
Michael Govan
Michael Govan( born 1963) is the director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art since 2006.
Prior to this, Govan worked as the director of the Dia Art Foundation in New York City.
Russell Doughten
Russell S. Doughten Jr. (February 16, 1927 – August 19, 2013) was an American filmmaker and producer of numerous short and feature-length Christian films.
His film work is credited under numerous variations of his name: with or without the "Jr." suffix or middle initial, and sometimes using the informal "Russ" instead of "Russell".
Nearly all of his Christian films were shot in various locales in his home state of Iowa.
While he worked on films, most notably as producer and director (uncredited) of the 1958 sci-fi/horror classic "The Blob", he was best known for the "Thief
In The Night" series, which dramatizes the Rapture and Second Coming of Christ and the struggles of a small band of believers against an increasingly hostile worldwide Antichrist dictatorship.
The films of that series are:
Doughten appears in all four films as Reverend Matthew Turner, a survivalist who has an elaborate chart of the End Times events, but did not fully believe in the Bible until after the Rapture, even if not accepting Christ as his savior.
With his long, graying hair usually worn in a ponytail and shaggy beard, he didn't look the part of the stereotypical Christian fundamentalist, a fact that is credited with earning him secular fans,as is his use of unusual camera angles and layered audio.
While there had been feature-length Christian films before, including the End Times film "
If Footmen Tire You, What Will Horses Do?"
directed by Ron Ormond in 1971, a sweeping, ambitious project like "Thief"—with three sequels telling one continuous story over the course of a decade—had never been undertaken even in Hollywood.
Doughten's identification of the Antichrist not with Communism as Ormond had done, nor with Jack Chick's sinister view of the Vatican, but rather with a worldwide government that initially acts as a global peacemaker, i.e. the United Nations, is consistent with many other Biblicist interpretations of the Tribulation.
His finding that the rapture is referred to in Matthew 24 is controversial.
While the films were clearly made on a low budget, and the dated 1970s fashions shown in the early films provide unintentional amusement today, there is no denying the series' influence among Christian fundamentalists.
"
A Thief in the Night" is said to be the most widely seen Gospel film in the world and has been influential in many conversions to Christianity.
Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins cite Doughten's films as being the primary influence for their million selling "Left Behind" series of books and films.
Doughten's films have been frequently shown in churches and on Christian television stations.
In the mid-1960s, Doughten taught English and drama and supervised and directed student productions at South Pasadena High School in California.
His former students report that he was exacting in demanding their best efforts, but they were proud of the results and the quality of the productions he directed and they regretted his departure in 1964 to return to filmmaking in Ohio.
Doughten died from a cardiac-related illness on August 19, 2013.
Peter Levin
Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre.
Ahmad Shirzad
Ahmad Shirzad was a member of 6th Iran Parliament( Consultative Assembly of Iran).
Ahmad Shirzad was among the hostage takers that took US diplomats hostage.
The hostage taking was a well coordinated activity between Islamists and leftist activities, including Habibollah Peyman.
Many of the hostage takers later on were shunned by Ali Khamenei and his followers.
Once they were removed from the power, they tried to assume a new political identity by calling themselves reformists.
He teaches physics in Isfahan University of Technology.

Question: What nationality is the director of film The Hostage (1967 Film)?
Answer: American