Peter Levin
Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre.
Black Pearl (1934 film)
Black Pearl (Polish: "Czarna perła") is a 1934 Polish romantic crime drama directed by Michał Waszyński.
Michał Waszyński
Michał Waszyński (29 September 1904 – 20 February 1965) was first a film director in Poland, then in Italy, and later (as Michael Waszynski) a producer of the major American films, mainly in Spain.
Known for his elegance and impeccable manners, he was, by the people who knew him, known as "the prince".
Waszyński was born as Mosze Waks into a Polish Jewish family as Michał Waks in 1904 in Kowel, a small town in Volhynia (now in Ukraine), which at the time was part of Imperial Russia.
As Germany occupied this part of Europe during World War I, he moved first to Warsaw and later to Berlin.
As a young man he worked as an assistant director of the legendary German director F.W. Murnau.
Upon his return to Poland he changed his name to Michał Waszyński and converted to Catholicism.
In the 1930s Waszyński became the most prolific film director in Poland, directing 37 of the 147 films made in Poland in that decade, nearly one out of four.
Along with the popular films in Polish directed to a wide local audience, he directed an important film in Yiddish
"The Dybbuk", today a monument of the rich cultural life of East European Jewry before the Holocaust.
At the beginning of World War II Waszyński escaped from Warsaw, which was being bombed by German planes, to Białystok.
That city was taken in mid-September 1939 by the Germans, but within weeks, as a result of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, the city was given to the Soviet Union and occupied by its army.
Waszyński began a new career as a theater director, first in Białystok and later in Moscow.
In the summer of 1941, after Germany invaded the Soviet Union, Waszyński joined the newly formed Polish Army of general Władysław Anders (loyal to the Polish government in Exile in London) and subsequently was relocated to Persia (Iran), and later as a soldier of the 2nd Corps of the Polish Army to Egypt and Italy.
As a member of the army film unit, he filmed the Battle of Monte Cassino, where the Polish Army suffered great losses, but helped to win the day.
After World War II, he stayed in Italy, where he directed a Polish-language feature film about the Battle of Monte Cassino, and then three Italian films.
Later in his career, Waszyński worked as a producer for the major American studios in Italy and (primarily) Spain, credited as "Michael Waszynski".
His credits include "The Quiet American" (1958) (associate producer), "El Cid" (1961), and "The Fall of the Roman Empire (film)" (1964) (executive producer and associate producer).
He died of a heart attack on 20 February 1965 in Madrid, and was buried in a ceremonious Catholic funeral in Rome.
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.
Larbi Benbarek
Larbi Benbarek or Larbi Ben Mbarek( – also known as the Black Pearl; born 16 June 1914 – died 16 September 1992) was a Moroccan football player recognized as the first successful African player in Europe.
He is considered as one of the greatest and strongest player of all time and was also praised by Pelé.
He was the first player to bear the nickname of Black Pearl.
Larbi rose to fame in the French league.
Jeri Lynne Johnson
Jeri Lynne Johnson is the Founder and Artistic Director of the Black Pearl Chamber Orchestra, a professional orchestra in Philadelphia.
Maestra Johnson is a graduate of Wellesley College and the University of Chicago, and is an accomplished conductor, composer and pianist.
From 2001- 2004, she was the assistant conductor of The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, where she dedicated herself to bringing inspiring new music to the stage.
She has led orchestras around the world including the Colorado Symphony, Bournemouth Symphony( UK), the Philadelphia Orchestra, and the Weimar Staatskapelle( Germany).
Alongside prominent woman conductors Marin Alsop and JoAnn Falletta, Ms. Johnson was heralded on the NBC Today Show as one of the nation ’s leading female conductors.
In 2005, Ms. Johnson made history as the first African- American woman to win an international conducting prize when she was awarded the Taki Concordia Conducting Fellowship.
In 2008 she established the Black Pearl Chamber Orchestra in Philadelphia with some of the top musicians in the country from diverse cultures and nationalities as a model for the 21st- century American orchestra.
The orchestra's mission is to" take the audience beyond spectatorship to participation in the musical experience by combining artistic excellence with cultural diversity and innovative community engagement.
Through Black Pearl, she pioneered a fresh new approach to community engagement that has been imitated and adopted by orchestras across the country.
The world- class quality of her concert performances have earned Black Pearl numerous grants from the National Endowment for the Arts.
And her innovative community engagement programs have made Black Pearl the only organization in the nation ever to win three prestigious Knight Foundation Arts Challenge grants.
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.
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.
Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.
The Mystery of the Black Pearl
The Mystery of the Black Pearl is a 1912 Australian silent film.
A detective drama, It is now considered a lost film

Question: Where did the director of film Black Pearl (1934 Film) die?
Answer: Madrid