Hanro Smitsman
Hanro Smitsman, born in 1967 in Breda( Netherlands), is a writer and director of film and television.
Cyril Frankel
Cyril S. Frankel( 28 December 1921 – 7 June 2017) was a British film and television director.
His career in television began in 1953 and he directed for over 30 TV programmes until 1990.
He was born in Stoke Newington, London.
He directed many episodes of popular British TV shows, such as" The Avengers", and the pilot episodes of the ITC Entertainment shows" Randall and Hopkirk( Deceased)" and" Department S" in 1969.
In 1970, he directed" Timelash", an episode of" UFO", which he described as a very interesting script and one of his personal favourites.
Frankel also directed many documentaries and feature films, including" Never Take Sweets from a Stranger"( 1960) and" School for Scoundrels"( 1960; taking over from Robert Hamer, who was credited as sole director).
One of his films," Man of Africa"( 1953)- the first film to feature a cast made up of relatively unknown black actors- was not released and was lost for some time.
A complete copy has since been discovered and has been screened at a number of international film festivals.
In terms of documentaries, Frankel supervised some of the films that were broadcast for the BBC arts series" Monitor"( 1958 – 65), among which was the first ballet programme to be filmed and edited to the choreography.
Prior to his retirement, he became the ceramics expert for Bonhams auction house.
A book," Modern Pots: Hans Coper, Lucie Rie and their Contemporaries- The Lisa Sainsbury Collection", was co-authored by Frankel and published in 2000.
His memoir," Eye to Eye", was published by Bank House Books in 2009.
Frankel died on 7 June 2017 at the age of 95.
Ben Cura
Ben Cura( born 30 September 1988) is a British- Argentine actor and director of film, television and theatre.
Permission to Kill
Permission to Kill, also known as The Executioner, is a 1975 spy thriller film made by Sascha- Verleih and distributed by AVCO Embassy Pictures.
It was directed by Cyril Frankel and produced by Paul Mills from a screenplay by Robin Estridge.
The film had original music by Richard Rodney Bennett and the cinematography was by Freddie Young.
The film stars Dirk Bogarde, Ava Gardner and Bekim Fehmiu with Timothy Dalton, Nicole Calfan and Frederic Forrest.
The film is an Austrian- British- American co-production and was shot at the Sievering Studios in Vienna and on location in Gmunden, Austria.
Marcel Blistène
Marcel Blistène, born Marcel Blitstein( 3 June 1911 in Paris – 2 August 1991), was a French film director.
Marcel Blistène joined Paramount in 1930 as an assistant, after studying literature.
He then began a career as a film journalist, for" Pour vous" and" Cinémonde".
He made his first movie" Étoile sans lumière" in 1945, and in the thirteen years that followed, he only directed ten more motion pictures.
Peter Levin
Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre.
Star Without Light
Star Without Light( French: Étoile sans lumière) is a 1946 French drama film directed by Marcel Blistène and starring Édith Piaf, Marcel Herrand and Jules Berry.
The film's art direction was by Jean d'Eaubonne.
The film is set in 1929.
Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.
Brian Johnson (special effects artist)
Brian Johnson( born 1939 or 1940) is a British designer and director of film and television special effects.
Star Without Light (1953 film)
Star Without Light( Spanish: Estrella sin luz) is a 1953 Mexican drama film directed by Ernesto Cortázar and starring Rosa Carmina, Fernando Fernández and Gina Cabrera.

Question: Do director of film Permission To Kill and director of film Star Without Light have the same nationality?
Answer: no