Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.
George Bowers (filmmaker)
George Bowers (April 20, 1944 – August 18, 2012) was an American film director, editor and producer.
He had nearly thirty credits as a feature-film editor in a career spanning nearly forty years.
Bowers was born in the Bronx, New York.
After graduating from high school, he began his editing career under the tutelage of Hugh Robertson, who is noted as one of the first African-Americans to gain membership in the Motion Picture Editors Guild.
He started working as an assistant editor at ABC directly out of high school, and after military service he worked for Robertson's company Byro Productions.
His first feature-film credit as editor was for the television movie "...
And Beautiful II" (1970).
As an editor, Bowers' feature-film credits span the years from 1970 to his last film in 2008.
He worked extensively with directors Joseph Ruben and Penny Marshall, including "A League of Their Own" (Marshall–1992) and "The Stepfather" (Ruben–1987).
Bowers mentored younger editors including Sam Pollard, who has edited several of director Spike Lee's films.
As a director, Bowers films include "Private Resort" (1985) with Johnny Depp and Rob Morrow, and "My Tutor" (1983) with Crispin Glover.
Bowers died from complications related to heart surgery on August 18, 2012 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California; he was 68 years old.
Bowers had been selected as a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences and of the American Cinema Editors.
Leon Isaac Kennedy
Leon Isaac Kennedy( born June 1, 1948 or January 1, 1949)( sources differ) is an American actor, disk jockey, film producer and playwright.
Kennedy is perhaps best known as Martel" Too Sweet" Gordone in Jamaa Fanaka's" Penitentiary"( 1979)," Penitentiary II"( 1982) and" Penitentiary III"( 1987).
Kennedy also is best known for his role as Leon" The Lover" Johnson in the 1981 film" Body and Soul" alongside his then- wife Jayne Kennedy.
Francis D. Lyon
Francis D." Pete" Lyon( July 29, 1905 – October 8, 1996) was an American film director, television director, and film editor.
He and Robert Parrish were co-recipients of the Academy Award for Best Film Editing for the 1947 film," Body and Soul".
Body and Soul (1981 film)
Body and Soul is a 1981 American drama film written by and starring Leon Isaac Kennedy, and co-starring his then-wife Jayne Kennedy.
Directed by George Bowers, it is a remake of the 1947 film, a story of corruption, violence and temptation between a boxer and a knockout.
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.
Peter Levin
Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre.
Force of Evil
Force of Evil is a 1948 American crime film noir directed by Abraham Polonsky, who was previously known as a screenwriter for the boxing film" Body and Soul"( 1947).
Like" Body and Soul", the film starred John Garfield.
The film was adapted by Abraham Polonsky and Ira Wolfert from Wolfert's novel" Tucker's People".
The film marked the first on screen acting role of Beau Bridges, who was 7 years old at the time of the film ’s release.
In 1994," Force of Evil" was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being" culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Jayne Kennedy
Jayne Kennedy Overton( née Harrison) is an American television personality, actress, model, corporate spokeswoman, producer, writer, public speaker, philanthropist, beauty pageant titleholder and sports broadcaster.
Kennedy won a 1982 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture award for her performance as Julie Winters in the 1981 film" Body and Soul" co-starring alongside her then – husband Leon Isaac Kennedy.

Question: What is the place of birth of the director of film Body And Soul (1981 Film)?
Answer: Bronx