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.
Knock on Any Door
Knock on Any Door is a 1949 American courtroom trial film noir directed by Nicholas Ray and starring Humphrey Bogart.
The picture gave actor John Derek a break in developing his film career and was based on the 1947 novel of the same name by Willard Motley.
Peter Levin
Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre.
Nicholas Ray
Nicholas Ray (born Raymond Nicholas Kienzle Jr., August 7, 1911 – June 16, 1979) was an American film director best known for the movie
"Rebel Without a Cause."
Ray is also appreciated for many narrative features produced between 1947 and 1963 including "Bigger Than LifeJohnny GuitarThey Live by Night", and "In a Lonely Place", as well as an experimental work produced throughout the 1970s titled "We Can't Go Home Again", which was unfinished at the time of Ray's death from lung cancer.
Ray's compositions within the CinemaScope frame and use of color are particularly well-regarded.
Ray was an important influence on the French New Wave, with Jean-Luc Godard famously writing in a review of "Bitter Victorycinema is Nicholas Ray."
Lamman Rucker
Lamman Rucker( born October 6, 1971) is an American actor.
Rucker began his career on the daytime soap operas" As the World Turns" and" All My Children", before roles in Tyler Perry's films
" Why Did I Get Married?
Why Did I Get Married Too?", and" Meet the Browns", and its television adaptation.
In 2016, he began starring as Jacob Greenleaf in the Oprah Winfrey Network drama series," Greenleaf".
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.
Richard T. Jones
Richard Timothy Jones( born January 16, 1972) is an American actor.
Jones is best known for his portrayals of Laveinio in the dramatic film" The Wood"( 1999) and Mike of the dramatic films" Why Did I Get Married?"( 2007) and" Why Did I Get Married Too?"( 2010).
He is also well known for his role as Bruce Van Exel, court services officer on the CBS television series" Judging Amy" that aired from 1999 to 2005.
Willard Motley
Willard Francis Motley( July 14, 1909 – March 4, 1965) was an African- American author.
Motley published a column in the" Chicago Defender" under the pen-name Bud Billiken.
Motley also worked as a freelance writer, and later founded and published the" Hull House Magazine" and worked in the Federal Writers Project.
Motley's first and best known novel was" Knock on Any Door", which was made into a movie by the same name( 1947).
Let No Man Write My Epitaph
Let No Man Write
My Epitaph is a 1960 American crime drama film about the son of an executed criminal who aspires to escape his impoverished, crime- ridden neighborhood with the help of his mother and a group of concerned neighbors.
The film was directed by Philip Leacock, and stars Burl Ives, Shelley Winters, James Darren, Jean Seberg, and Ricardo Montalban.
The film was based on the 1958 novel of the same name by Willard Motley, and is a sequel to the 1949 film" Knock on Any Door", which was itself based on an earlier Motley novel.

Question: Why did the director of film Knock On Any Door die?
Answer: lung cancer