Sam Greenlee
Samuel Eldred Greenlee, Jr.( July 13, 1930 – May 19, 2014) was an American writer.
He is best known for his novel" The Spook Who Sat by the Door", first published in London by Allison& Busby in March 1969( having been rejected by dozens of mainstream publishers), and went on to be chosen as" The Sunday Times" Book of the Year.
The novel was subsequently made into the 1973 movie of the same name, directed by Ivan Dixon and co-produced and written by Greenlee, that is now considered a" cult classic".
Lawrence Cook (actor)
Lawrence Cook( May 7, 1930 – December 27, 2003) was an African- American actor.
Cook starred in" The Spook Who Sat by the Door"( 1973).
In that film, which was based on the 1969 novel of the same name by Sam Greenlee, Cook portrayed Dan Freeman, a secret black nationalist who is trained by the CIA and later trains and leads black freedom fighters in an uprising against the U.S. government.
Before" The Spook Who Sat by the Door", Cook appeared in films such as" Cotton Comes to Harlem"( 1970) and" Trouble Man"( 1972).
After" Spook", he appeared in" Colors"( 1988) and" Posse"( 1993), as well as in television series including" Family Matters The Mod SquadColumbo" and" McMillan& Wife".
He also appeared as Paul Grant on the daytime soap opera" Days Of Our Lives" in the mid-1970s.
Cook died in 2003 in Marina del Rey, California.
He was buried in Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery.
The Spook Who Sat by the Door (film)
The Spook Who Sat by the Door is a 1973 action crime–drama film based on the 1969 novel of the same name by Sam Greenlee (which was first published in the UK by Allison and Busby after being much rejected in the US).
It is both a satire of the civil rights struggle in the United States of the late 1960s and a serious attempt to focus on the issue of black militancy.
Dan Freeman, the titular protagonist, is enlisted by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in its elitist espionage program, becoming its token black.
After mastering agency tactics, however, he becomes disillusioned and drops out to train young Chicago blacks as "Freedom Fighters".
As a story of one man's reaction to white ruling-class hypocrisy, the film is loosely autobiographical and personal.
The novel and the film also dramatize the CIA's history of giving training to persons and/or groups who later utilize their specialized intelligence training against the agency - an example of "blowback."
Directed by Ivan Dixon, co-produced by Dixon and Greenlee, from a screenplay written by Greenlee with Mel Clay, the film starred Lawrence Cook, Paula Kelly, Janet League, J. A. Preston, and David Lemieux.
It was mostly shot in Gary, Indiana, because the themes of racial strife did not please Chicago's then-mayor Richard J. Daley.
The soundtrack was an original score composed by Herbie Hancock, who grew up in the same neighborhood as Greenlee.
In 2012, the film was added to the National Film Registry, which annually chooses 25 films that are "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant", and are, at least, 10 years old.
Theodred II (Bishop of Elmham)
Theodred II was a medieval Bishop of Elmham.
The date of Theodred's consecration unknown, but the date of his death was sometime between 995 and 997.
Abe Meyer
Abe Meyer( 1901 – 1969) was an American composer of film scores.
Bert Grund
Bert Grund( 1920–1992) was a German composer of film scores.
Alonso Mudarra
Alonso Mudarra( c. 1510 – April 1, 1580) was a Spanish composer of the Renaissance, and also played the vihuela, a guitar- shaped string instrument.
He was an innovative composer of instrumental music as well as songs, and was the composer of the earliest surviving music for the guitar.
Henri Verdun
Henri Verdun( 1895–1977) was a French composer of film scores.
Herbie Hancock
Herbert Jeffrey Hancock (born April 12, 1940) is an American pianist, keyboardist, bandleader, composer and actor.
Hancock started his career with Donald Byrd.
He shortly thereafter joined the Miles Davis Quintet, where he helped to redefine the role of a jazz rhythm section and was one of the primary architects of the post-bop sound.
In the 1970s, Hancock experimented with jazz fusion, funk, and electro styles.
Hancock's best-known compositions include "Cantaloupe IslandWatermelon Man" (later performed by dozens of musicians, including bandleader Mongo Santamaría), "Maiden VoyageChameleon", and the singles "
I Thought It Was You" and "Rockit".
His 2007 tribute album  won the 2008 Grammy Award for Album of the Year, only the second jazz album to win the award, after "Getz/Gilberto" in 1965.
Walter Ulfig
Walter Ulfig was a German composer of film scores.

Question: What is the date of birth of the composer of film The Spook Who Sat By The Door (Film)?
Answer: April 12, 1940