Grace Miller White
Grace Miller White( 1868–1957) was an American author.
Born Mary Esther Miller, she lived her whole life in Ithaca, New York.
She adopted the name Grace around 1897, in memory of a younger sister who had died before reaching her first birthday.
She married twice, first to Homer White, and then to Friend H. Miller.
She began her writing career novelizing plays, before turning her hand to novels in 1909.
Several of her books were adapted for the big screen, most notably" Tess of the Storm Country", which has been filmed on four separate occasions between 1914 and 1960.
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".
Paul Guilfoyle (actor, born 1902)
Paul Guilfoyle (July 14, 1902 – June 27, 1961) was an American stage, film and television actor.
Later in his career, he also directed films and television episodes.
Guilfoyle was born in Jersey City, New Jersey.
He started off working on stage, performing on Broadway in 16 plays according to the Internet Broadway Database, beginning with "The Jolly Roger" and "Cyrano de Bergerac" in 1923 and ending with "Jayhawker" in 1934.
He appeared in many films that starred Lee Tracy in the 1930s.
In the 1949 crime film "White Heat", he played (uncredited) a treacherous prison inmate murdered in cold blood by James Cagney's lead character.
He died of a heart attack on June 27, 1961 in Hollywood.
He had a son, Anthony.
Guilfoyle was interred in Glendale, California's Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery.
Tess of the Storm Country (1960 film)
Tess of the Storm Country is a 1960 American drama film directed by Paul Guilfoyle, written by Charles Lang, and starring Diane Baker, Jack Ging, Lee Philips, Archie Duncan, Nancy Valentine and Bert Remsen.
It is based on the novel with the same title by Grace Miller White and its adaptation for the stage by Rupert Hughes.
The film was released on December 8, 1960, by 20th Century Fox.
Tess of the Storm Country (1914 film)
Tess of the Storm Country is a 1914 silent drama directed by Edwin S. Porter.
It is based on the 1909 novel of the same name by Grace Miller White.
It stars Mary Pickford, in a role she would reprise eight years later for the 1922 adaptation by John S. Robertson.
In 2006, the film was named to the National Film Registry by the Librarian of Congress, for its" cultural, aesthetic, or historical significance".
Polly of the Storm Country
Polly of the Storm Country is a lost 1920 American drama film directed by Arthur Rosson and written by Frank Mitchell Dazey.
The film stars Mildred Harris, Emory Johnson, Charlotte Burton, Harry Northrup, Ruby Lafayette, and Maurice Valentin.
It is based on the 1920 novel" Storm Country Polly" by Grace Miller White.
The film was released on April 4, 1920, by First National Exhibitors' Circuit.
Peter Levin
Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre.
Tess of the Storm Country (1932 film)
Tess of the Storm Country is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film directed by directed by Alfred Santell and starring Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, and Dudley Digges.
It was released by Fox Film Corporation.
It is based on the novel of the same name by Grace Miller White and its adaptation for the stage by Rupert Hughes.
Gaynor and Farrell made almost a dozen films together, including Frank Borzage's classics" Seventh Heaven"( 1927)," Street Angel"( 1928), and" Lucky Star"( 1929).
Gaynor won the first Academy Award for Best Actress for the first two films and F. W. Murnau's" Sunrise".
The Secret of the Storm Country
The Secret of the Storm Country was a 1917 American silent drama film directed by Charles Miller and starring Norma Talmadge( whose company also produced the film).
The film is described as not a direct sequel but a" continuation" of the 1914 film" Tess of the Storm Country", starring Mary Pickford.
The film is now considered lost.
Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.

Question: Why did the director of film Tess Of The Storm Country (1960 Film) die?
Answer: heart attack