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.
Kenelm Foss
Kenelm Foss (13 December 1885 – 28 November 1963) was a British actor, theatre director, author, screenwriter and film director.
He was born in Croydon, Surrey and studied art at the Wellesley School of Art and in Paris.
He was, however, more interested in theatre and in 1903 made his first appearance on the London stage at the Royal Court Theatre.
He then spent four years at the Glasgow Repertory Theatre producing plays and acting before returning to London to manage the Lyric Theatre in the Strand.
He directed the play "Magic" by G.K.Chesterton, which had been written specially for him in 1913, and which title was the caption to the Vanity Fair caricature of him on 17 December 1913.
He then produced the first performance of Chekhov’s "The Cherry Orchard" in England and in Europe, after which he obliged to leave the theatre for a while when he contracted tuberculosis.
In 1915 he began a new career as a film director utilizing the production techniques and acting skills he had learned in the theatre.
Many of his films were made for Astra Films.
Following a relapse of his illness, he was able to return to the theatre and in the early 1920s spent some time in New York City where he produced a play on Broadway starring John Barrymore.
He published several novels, works of poetry and biographical studies of Richard Brinsley Sheridan and J. M. W. Turner.
With Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin and others he published "Practical Course in Cinema Acting in Ten Complete Lessons" in 1920.
In 1925 he opened a sandwich bar in London which soon became a great success with the theatre fraternity and was followed by more "Sandys" to meet the demand.
Foss died in 1963.
He had married the actress Elisabeth Gilson and had six children, two of whom died in childhood.
In 2005 his daughter Fanny Burney Woolnough published (under the name Fanny Burney)
a biography of her father, "Stage, Screen and Sandwiches: the Remarkable Life of Kenelm Foss".
Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.
Leslie Howard Gordon
Leslie Howard Gordon was a British screenwriter and actor of the silent and early sound film eras.
He also directed three films in the 1930s including" The Double Event"( 1934).
He worked as a screenwriter for Stoll Pictures in the early 1920s, when the company was the largest studio in the country.
He often worked with the director Sinclair Hill.
The Double Event (1934 film)
The Double Event is a 1934 British film directed by Leslie Howard Gordon.
It marked the screen debut of Bernard Lee.
Peter Levin
Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre.
The Double Event (1921 film)
The Double Event is a 1921 British silent comedy film directed by Kenelm Foss and starring Mary Odette, Roy Travers and Lionelle Howard.
After her father, a country clergyman, loses large sums of money his daughter recoups his losses by becoming the partner of a bookie.
The film is based on a play of the same title, which was adapted into a sound film "The Double Event" in 1934.
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.
The Double Event (1911 film)
The Double Event is a 1911 Australian feature- length film directed by W. J. Lincoln based on the first novel by Nat Gould, which had been adapted several times for the stage, notably by Bland Holt.
It is considered a lost film.
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.

Question: What is the place of birth of the director of film The Double Event (1921 Film)?
Answer: Croydon