Roman Polanski
Roman Polański (born 18 August 1933 in Paris; original name Raymond Thierry Liebling) is a French-Polish film director, producer, writer, and actor.
Since 1978, Polanski has been a fugitive from the U.S. criminal justice system; he fled the country while awaiting sentencing in his sexual abuse case, in which he pleaded guilty to statutory rape.
His Polish-Jewish parents moved the family back from Paris to Kraków in 1937.
Two years later, Poland was invaded by Nazi Germany starting World War II and the Polanskis found themselves trapped in the Kraków Ghetto.
After his mother and father were taken in raids, Polanski spent his formative years in foster homes under an adopted identity, trying to survive the Holocaust.
Polanski's first feature-length film, "Knife in the Water" (1962), was made in Poland and was nominated for a United States Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
He has since received five more Oscar nominations, along with two BAFTAs, four Césars, a Golden Globe Award and the Palme d'Or of the Cannes Film Festival in France.
In the United Kingdom he directed three films, beginning with "Repulsion" (1965).
In 1968, he moved to the United States and cemented his status by directing the horror film "Rosemary's Baby" (1968).
A turning point in his life took place in 1969, when his pregnant wife, Sharon Tate, and four friends were brutally murdered by members of the Manson Family.
Following her death, Polanski returned to Europe and eventually continued directing.
He made "Macbeth" (1971) in England and back in Hollywood, "Chinatown" (1974), which was nominated for eleven Academy Awards.
In 1977, Polanski was arrested and charged with drugging and raping a 13-year-old girl.
He subsequently pled guilty to the lesser offence of unlawful sex with a minor.
After spending 42 days undergoing psychiatric evaluation in prison in preparation for sentencing, Polanski, who had expected to be put on probation, fled to Paris after learning that the judge planned to reject his plea deal and impose a prison term.
In Europe, Polanski continued to make films, including "Tess" (1979), starring Nastassja Kinski.
It won France's César Awards for Best Picture and Best Director, and received three Oscars.
He later produced and directed "The Pianist" (2002), a drama about a Jewish-Polish musician escaping Nazi persecution, starring Adrien Brody and Emilia Fox.
The film won three Academy Awards including Best Director, along with numerous international awards.
He also directed "Oliver Twist" (2005), a story which parallels his own life as a "young boy attempting to triumph over adversity".
He was awarded Best Director for "The Ghost Writer" (2010) at the 23rd European Film Awards.
He also received Best Screenwriter nomination at the aforementioned awards for "Carnage" (2011).
In 2018, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences voted to expel Polanski from its membership.
The Ninth Gate
The Ninth Gate is a 1999 mystery thriller film directed, produced, and co-written by Roman Polanski.
An international co-production between the United States, Portugal, France, and Spain, the film is loosely based upon Arturo Pérez-Reverte's 1993 novel "The Club Dumas".
The plot involves authenticating a rare and ancient book that purportedly contains a magical secret for summoning the Devil.
The premiere showing was at San Sebastián, Spain, on 25 August 1999, a month before the 47th San Sebastian International Film Festival.
Though critically and commercially unsuccessful in North America, where reviewers compared it unfavorably with Polanski's supernatural film "Rosemary's Baby" (1968), "
The Ninth Gate" earned a worldwide gross of $58.4 million against a $38 million budget.
John Brownjohn
John Maxwell Brownjohn is a British literary translator.
He has translated more than 160 books, and won the Schlegel- Tieck Prize for German translation three times and the Helen and Kurt Wolff Prize once.
He has also collaborated with the filmmaker Roman Polanski on" Tess"( 1979)," Pirates"( 1986)," Bitter Moon"( 1992)," The Ninth Gate"( 1999) and" The Pianist"( 2002).
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.
Peter Levin
Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre.
Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.
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.
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.
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.
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.

Question: What is the place of birth of the director of film The Ninth Gate?
Answer: Paris