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.
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.
Peter Levin
Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre.
Robert Thornby
Robert Thornby (March 27, 1888 – March 6, 1953) was an American director and actor of the silent era.
He directed 75 films between 1913 and 1927.
He also appeared in 48 films between 1911 and 1930.
He was born in New York, New York and died in Los Angeles, California.
The Hostage (1917 film)
The Hostage is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by Robert Thornby and written by Beulah Marie Dix.
The film stars Wallace Reid, Dorothy Abril, Gertrude Short, Clarence Geldart, Guy Oliver, and Marcia Manon.
The film was released on September 10, 1917, by Paramount Pictures.
Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.
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.
Anne McLoughlin
Anne McLoughlin, Irish aid worker and hostage, born c. 1960.
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.
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.

Question: What is the place of birth of the director of film The Hostage (1917 Film)?
Answer: New York