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.
Sheila Reid
Sheila Reid( born 21 December 1937) is a Scottish actress, best known for playing Madge Harvey in the ITV sitcom Benidorm( 2007 – 16).
An original member of the Royal National Theatre in 1963, she played Bianca in the National's 1965 film version of" Othello", with Laurence Olivier in the title role.
Her other film appearances include" Brazil"( 1985)," The Winter Guest"( 1997) and" Containment"( 2015).
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.
The Winter Guest
The Winter Guest is a 1997 drama film directed by Alan Rickman and starring Phyllida Law and Emma Thompson.
Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.
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.
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.
Alan Rickman
Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman (21 February 1946 – 14 January 2016) was an English actor and director.
Rickman trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London and became a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), performing in modern and classical theatre productions.
His first big television role came in 1982, he played the Vicomte de Valmont in the RSC stage production of "Les Liaisons Dangereuses" in 1985, and after the production transferred to Broadway in 1987 he was nominated for a Tony Award.
Rickman's first cinematic role was as the German terrorist leader Hans Gruber in "Die Hard" (1988).
He also appeared as the Sheriff of Nottingham in  (1991), for which he received the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role; Elliott Marston in "Quigley Down Under" (1990);
Jamie in "Truly, Madly, Deeply" (1990);
P.L. O'Hara in "An Awfully Big Adventure" (1995); Colonel Brandon in "Sense and Sensibility" (1995); Alexander Dane in "Galaxy Quest" (1999)
; Harry in "Love Actually" (2003); Marvin the Paranoid Android in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" (2005); and Judge Turpin in the film adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's musical of  (2007).
Rickman gained further notice for his film performances as Severus Snape in the "Harry Potter" series.
Rickman made his television acting debut playing Tybalt in "Romeo and Juliet" (1978) as part of the BBC’s Shakespeare series.
He later starred in television films, playing the title character in  (1996), which won him a Golden Globe Award, an Emmy Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award, and Dr. Alfred Blalock in the Emmy-winning "Something the Lord Made" (2004).
Rickman died of pancreatic cancer on 14 January 2016 at age 69.
His final film roles were as Lieutenant General Frank Benson in the thriller "Eye in the Sky" (2015), and the voice of Absolem, the caterpillar in "Alice Through the Looking Glass" (2016).
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".

Question: Why did the director of film The Winter Guest die?
Answer: pancreatic cancer