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.
Zora Wolfová
Zora Wolfová( 20 February 1928 — 29 November 2012) was a Czech translator( from English) and publishing editor.
Her early translations are credited under her maiden surname, Bartošová.
A native of the Czech capital, Prague, Wolfová translated more than 60 books into Czech, including Arthur Ransome's" Swallows and Amazons" series and Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories.
She died in Prague at the age of 84.
Claude Whatham
Claude Whatham (7 December 1927 in Manchester - 4 January 2008 in Anglesey) was an English film and TV director mainly known for his work on dramas.
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.
Peter Levin
Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre.
Swallows and Amazons (1974 film)
Swallows and Amazons is a 1974 British film adaption of the 1930 novel of the same name by Arthur Ransome.
The film, which was directed by Claude Whatham and produced by Richard Pilbrow, starred Virginia McKenna and Ronald Fraser, and a young Zanna Hamilton.
Its budget was provided by Nat Cohen of EMI Films who had funded the successful 1970 film "The Railway Children".
Clifford Webb
Clifford Webb RBA 1936, RE 1948( 14 March
1894 – 29 July 1972) was an English artist, illustrator and writer.
He specialised in animal drawings.
He was apprenticed as a lithographer, but served in the British Army( Wiltshire Regiment) during World War I and then studied at the Westminster School of Art.
He fought at Mons, Gallipoli and in Mesopotamia.
He was wounded four times, the most serious of which was a shot to the left side of his jaw, and mentioned in despatches.
From 1917 to 1919, he served as a captain in the Indian Army.
From 1919 to 1922, he studied at the Westminster School of Art under Walter Bayes and Bernard Meninsky and then from 1923 to 1926 he was a part- time lecturer at Central School of Art in Birmingham.
His remaining family still reside centrally in the UK and the United States.
Webb produced illustrations for the first two books of the Swallows and Amazons series by Arthur Ransome, which were used in some 1930s editions.
Because Ransome did not like those produced by Steven Spurrier for the first book," Swallows and Amazons", those were not used in its first edition( 1930), apart from the endpaper map and dust jacket.
In 1931 the second edition contained Webb's illustrations, as did the first edition of the sequel," Swallowdale".
( Ransome himself was the original illustrator of the third story," Peter Duck", and all that followed.
Further, in 1938 he produced illustrations for" Swallows and Amazons" and" Swallowdale", replacing Webb's drawings.)
Issue 67 of The Imaginative Book Illustration Society's Studies in Illustration contains a short biography& full bibliography by Martin Steenson.
Arthur Ransome
Arthur Michell Ransome( 18 January 1884 – 3 June 1967) was an English author and journalist.
He is best known for writing the" Swallows and Amazons" series of children's books about the school- holiday adventures of children, mostly in the Lake District and the Norfolk Broads.
The books remain popular and" Swallows and Amazons" is the basis for a tourist industry around Windermere and Coniston Water, the two lakes Ransome adapted as his fictional North Country lake.
He also wrote about the literary life of London, and about Russia before, during, and after the revolutions of 1917.
His connection with the leaders of the Revolution led to him providing information to the Secret Intelligence Service, while he was also suspected of being a Soviet spy by MI5.
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: Where was the director of film Swallows And Amazons (1974 Film) born?
Answer: Manchester