Irving Lerner
Irving Lerner (7 March 1909, New York City - 25 December 1976, Los Angeles) was an American filmmaker.
Before becoming a filmmaker, Lerner was a research editor for Columbia University's Encyclopedia of Social Sciences, getting his start in film by making documentaries for the anthropology department.
In the early 1930s, he was a member of the Workers Film and Photo League, and later, Frontier Films.
He made films for the Rockefeller Foundation and other academic institutions, becoming a film editor and second-unit director involved with the emerging American documentary movement of the late 1930s.
Lerner produced two documentaries for the Office of War Information during WW II and after the war became the head of New York University's Educational Film Institute.
In 1948, Lerner and Joseph Strick shared directorial chores on a short documentary, "Muscle Beach".
Lerner then turned to low-budget, quickly filmed features.
When not hastily making his own thrillers, Lerner worked as a technical advisor, a second-unit director, a co-editor and an editor.
Lerner was cinematographer, director, or assistant director on both fiction and documentary films such as "One Third of a Nation" (1939), "Valley Town" (1940), "The Land" (1942) directed by Robert Flaherty, and "Suicide Attack" (1950).
Lerner was also producer of the OWI documentary "Hymn of the Nations" (1944), directed by Alexander Hammid, and featuring Arturo Toscanini.
He was co-director with Joseph Strick of the short documentary "Muscle Beach" (1948).
Irving Lerner was also a director and film editor with directing credits such as "Studs Lonigan" (1960) and editing credits such as Stanley Kubrick's "Spartacus" (1960) and Martin Scorsese's "New York, New York" (1977).
Lerner died during the cutting of "New York, New York", and the film was dedicated to him.
Single by Contract
Single by Contract is a 2010 German comedy film directed by Marc Rothemund.
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.
Murder by Contract
Murder by Contract is a 1958 American film noir crime film directed by Irving Lerner.
Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Ben Maddow did uncredited work on the film.
Centering on an existentialist hit man assigned to kill a woman, the film is often praised for its spare style and peculiar sense of cool.
Though not widely seen at the time of its release, it finally appeared on DVD, included in the boxed set "Columbia Pictures Film Noir Classics, Vol. 1
(The Big Heat / 5 Against the House /
The Lineup / Murder by Contract / The Sniper)
," released November 3, 2009.
The film has exerted an influence on American cinema, most notably on director Martin Scorsese, who famously cited "Murder by Contract" as "the film that has influenced [him] most."
George Hoellering
George Michael Hoellering( 20 July 1897 – 10 February 1980) was an Austrian film director, producer and cinema manager.
He directed" Hortobagy"( 1936) about the Puszta in Hungary, as well as the 1951 British film" Murder in the Cathedral", which he co-wrote with T. S. Eliot.
He was the director of the Academy Cinema in London's Oxford Street from 1944 until his death in 1980.
Murder by Invitation
Murder by Invitation is a 1941 American murder mystery film directed by Phil Rosen.
Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.
Peter Levin
Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre.
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.
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: What is the place of birth of the director of film Murder By Contract?
Answer: New York