Robert Reece
Robert Reece( 2 May 1838 – 8 July 1891) was a British comic playwright and librettist active in the Victorian era.
He wrote many successful musical burlesques, comic operas, farces and adaptations from the French, including the English- language adaptation of the operetta" Les cloches de Corneville", which became the longest- running piece of musical theatre in history up to that time.
He sometimes collaborated with Henry Brougham Farnie or others.
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.
Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.
Simon-Max
Nicolas- Marie Simon( 1852, Reims, France – 1923), known as Simon- Max, was a French tenor, mainly active in Paris in the field of opera-bouffe.
After musical studies in Reims he made his debut in 1875 at the Théâtre de la Renaissance as Janio in" La reine Indigo" then on 9 September that year at the Théâtre des Folies- Dramatiques as Anatole de Quillembois in" Les cent vierges" by Lecocq.
At the Folies- Dramatiques he went on to sing in the premieres of" Les cloches de Corneville", 17 April 1877( Jean Grenicheux)," La fille du tambour- major", December 13, 1879( 13 December 1879) and" Madame Favart", December 28, 1878( Hector de Boispréau).
Other premieres included Cottinet in" Le petit Parisien"( 16 January 1882), Inigo in" La princesse des Canaries"( 9 February 1883), Ischabod in the French premiere of" Rip"( 11 November 1884), Planchet in" Les petits mousquetaires"( 5 March 1885), Michel in" Fanfan la tulipe",( 21 October 1882), Joseph Abrial in" La fauvette du temple"( 17 November 1885), and singing in revivals of" La fille de Madame Angot"( Pomponnet) among others.
He created Zizi in" Ali- Baba" in Brussels alongside his wife in 1887.
Simon- Max then worked at the Théâtre du Châtelet, at the Gaité( Mignapour in" Le grand Mogol" in 1889, creating Pinsonnet in" Le voyage de Suzette" on 20 January 1890, Pierrot in" Le petit poucet" in 1891), at the Théâtre des Bouffes- Parisiens( Don Géranios in" Madame la Présidente", 1902, Plum- Quick in" Florodora", 1903, and a 1908 revival of" La petite boheme" as Barbemuche).
Further appearances included the Théâtre de la Renaissance( Smithson in" Miss Helyett", 1900, Fritzchen in" Lischen et Fritzchen", 1900); and at the Théâtre Dejazet( Martelin in" Radinol a du coton", 1901).
While the proprietor of the casino in Villerville, a whale was beached which Simon- Max bought, selling the oil and flesh before conserving the skin and converting the body to a theatre large enough to take 100 in the audience.
The bizarre character of the Théâtre Baleine helped the success of a show entitled « Jonas Revue ».
The whale theatre was moved to Paris, but burnt down the following winter.
He was the founding director of the Prévoyance théâtrale.
During the run of" Les cloches de Corneville" he met and married the young soprano lead Juliette Simon- Girard.
Edgar Doneux
Edgard Doneux( Liège, 25 March 1920 – 31 January 1984, Anderlecht) was a Belgian conductor.
Doneux received his entire musical formation at the conservatoire of his native city, and made his conducting debut at the Opéra Royal de Liège, in 1940, aged only 20.
In 1946, he was named principal conductor at the Monnaie opera house in Brussels, and in 1949 chief conductor at the Belgian Radio- Television, retaining the latter post until his death.
His repertoire at La Monnaie included" Fra DiavoloSi j'étais roiCarmenLes contes d' HoffmannHérodiadeManonMignonLakmé" and" La Basoche" from the French 19th century repertoire, and Italian works from" Lucia di Lammermoor" and" Norma" to late romantic operas such as" La BohèmeCavalleria rusticana Madame ButterflyRigolettoSuor Angelica" and" Tosca".
Of lighter works he conducted" La Comtesse MaritzaLa Térésina Rêve de valse La veuve joyeuse" and" Les cloches de Corneville".
In the 1970s for the ballet company Doneux conducted major full- length ballets such as" The NutcrackerCinderellaCoppélia" and" Swan Lake".
He took part in the foundation of the and l' Opéra Royal de Wallonie, as well as the Festival de Chimay, and was for a time artistic director of the Spa Musical, in Spa, Belgium.
Les cloches de Corneville (film)
Les cloches de Corneville is a 1917 British silent drama film directed by Thomas Bentley and starring Elsie Craven, Moya Mannering and Leslie Stiles.
It was based on the 1876 French opera "Les cloches de Corneville" by Robert Planquette.
It was made at Bushey Studios.
Thomas Bentley
Thomas Bentley (1884–1966) was a British film director.
He directed 68 films between 1912 and 1941.
He directed three films in the early DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process, "The Man in the Street" (1926), "The Antidote" (1927), and "Acci-Dental Treatment" (1928).
Bentley was born in London and originally trained as an engineer but went on to become a vaudeville performer well known for impersonating the characters from the novels of Charles Dickens on stage.
His directing career in silent films began in 1910 with his adaptations of a number of Dickens' novels to film.
After his retirement from directing in 1941 he became technical advisor to the British Film Council.
Violet Cameron
Violet Lydia Thompson (7 December 1862 – 25 October 1919), known professionally as Violet Cameron, was an English actress and singer who gained fame in Robert Planquette's operettas "Les cloches de Corneville" and "Rip Van Winkle", and Francis Chassaigne's opéra bouffe "Falka", and notoriety for her affair with Hugh Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale.
Peter Levin
Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre.
Robert Planquette
Jean Robert Planquette( 31 July 1848 – 28 January 1903) was a French composer of songs and operettas.
Several of Planquette's operettas were extraordinarily successful in Britain, especially" Les cloches de Corneville"( 1878), the length of whose initial London run broke all records for any piece of musical theatre up to that time.
" Rip Van Winkle"( 1882) also earned international fame.

Question: Where was the director of film Les Cloches De Corneville (Film) born?
Answer: London