Peter Levin
Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre.
Hal Yates
Hal Yates (July 26, 1899 – August 1, 1969) was an American screenwriter and film director.
He wrote for 96 films between 1924 and 1953.
He also directed 88 films between 1926 and 1953.
He started his career in entertaintment in a vaudeville double-act called 'Yates and Lawley'.
Yates first worked at the Hal Roach Studios where he directed a few early Laurel and Hardy comedies (including the lost Hats Off),and
later worked at the RKO studios directing short films featuring Edgar Kennedy and Leon Errol.
He was born in Chicago, Illinois, and died in Los Angeles, California.
Jason Moore (director)
Jason Moore( born October 22, 1970) is an American director of film, theatre and television.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Footlight Varieties
Footlight Varieties is the third and final effort in the RKO series of variety films, combining film shorts with musical numbers and routines by Jack Paar.
Directed by Hal Yates, the screenplay was written by Yates and Felix Adler.
In addition to Paar, the film stars Leon Errol, and includes performances by The Sportsmen, Liberace, Jerry Murad's Harmonicats, and Red Buttons.
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.

Question: What is the place of birth of the director of film Footlight Varieties?
Answer: Chicago