Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.
Whistling in the Dark (1941 film)
Whistling in the Dark is a 1941 comedy film directed by S. Sylvan Simon.
It is the first of three films starring Red Skelton as Wally" the Fox" Benton, who writes and acts in radio murder mysteries.
Wally is kidnapped by a greedy cult leader( played by Conrad Veidt), who threatens to kill Wally's girlfriend( portrayed in all three films by Ann Rutherford) and another young woman unless he concocts a perfect murder.
The film was based on the Broadway play of the same name by Laurence Gross and Edward Childs Carpenter.
Uncredited contributing writer Elliott Nugent wrote and directed the earlier film adaptation of the same name.
The two sequels are" Whistling in Dixie"( 1942) and" Whistling in Brooklyn"( 1943).
Agnes Woodward
Agnes Woodward( January 1872 — June 1938) was an American music educator and professional whistler, founder and head of the California School of Artistic Whistling in Los Angeles, California.
Whistling in Brooklyn
Whistling in Brooklyn is a 1943 film directed by S. Sylvan Simon and starring Red Skelton, Ann Rutherford, and Jean Rogers.
It is the third and last film starring Skelton as radio personality and amateur detective
Wally "The Fox" Benton, following "Whistling in the Dark" and "Whistling in Dixie".
Wally prepares to marry his girlfriend, but gets sidetracked when he is mistaken for a serial murderer.
Leo Durocher, then-manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, made his screen debut, playing himself, while Dodgers "superfan" Hilda Chester also made a brief appearance, playing herself.
Peter Levin
Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre.
Whistling in Dixie
Whistling in Dixie is a 1942 American crime comedy film, the second of three starring Red Skelton as radio detective and amateur crime solver Wally Benton( also known as The Fox) and Ann Rutherford as his fiancee.
The pair are called upon to solve a crime in the American South.
The film also re-introduces Rags Ragland, playing dual roles as twins, the mostly- reformed Chester, as well as his villainous brother from the first film.
The film turns into a romantic comedy mystery, complete with death traps, corrupt politicians and lost gold, ending with a frenetic fight at the end between Wally Benton and both of Rags Ragland's characters.
The film is a sequel to" Whistling in the Dark" and is followed by" Whistling in Brooklyn".
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.
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".
S. Sylvan Simon
S. Sylvan Simon (March 9, 1910 – May 17, 1951) was an American stage/film director and producer.
He began his film career at Warner Bros. in 1935, directing screen tests.
In 1937, Simon moved to MGM, where he worked on the Marx Brothers' "
The Big Store", supervising many of the slapstick sequences.
He directed Red Skelton's first starring feature, 1941's "Whistling in the Dark", and later worked on two more Skelton vehicles, "A Southern Yankee" and "The Fuller Brush Man", in 1948.
Simon also directed Wallace Beery in "Bad Bascomb" (1946), and a Glenn Ford western, "Lust for Gold" (1949).
Simon was the producer of "Born Yesterday", a 1950 comedy that was nominated for five Academy Awards.
He then suddenly died of a heart attack at the age of 41.
His ashes were interred in a small unassuming bronze nameplate niche at Columbarium of Memory (Niche # 20174), in the Great Mausoleum at Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, Glendale, California.
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: Why did the director of film Whistling In Brooklyn die?
Answer: heart attack