Machiel van den Heuvel
Machiel van den Heuvel( 7 May 1900, Haarlemmermeer – 29 June 1946, near Bandung) was a Dutch army officer.
As a prisoner- of- war in Oflag IV- C at Colditz Castle, Germany, during World War II, he served as Escape Officer for the Dutch POWs, a role also held by Captain Pat Reid, the author of" The Colditz Story", for the British.
Van den Heuvel played a key role in most Dutch officer escapes( such as Hans Larive, Francis Steinmetz and Anthony Luteyn) during the war.
Ben Palmer
Ben Palmer is a British film and television director who is known for being the director of" Bo' Selecta" and" The Inbetweeners".
Kenneth Lockwood
Captain Kenneth Lockwood( 17 December 1911- 8 October 2007) was a stockbroker and an officer in the British Army.
He was one of the first six British prisoners of war to arrive at Oflag IV- C, Colditz, in 1940.
He made and assisted in numerous escape attempts, working with the chairman of the escape committee, Pat Reid, and was still at the castle when it was liberated by the US Army in April 1945.
He was the honorary secretary of the Colditz Association for 50 years.
Lockwood was born in London, the son of a jobber at the London Stock Exchange.
He was educated at Whitgift School in Croydon, and then worked for his father's firm in the City of London.
He joined the Territorial Army's 22nd( County of London) Battalion of the London Regiment( The Queen's Royal West Surreys) in 1933.
He was mobilized in August 1939 and trained at Yeovil before being posted to Le Mans, commanding a company of the 1st/ 6th Battalion of the Queen's Royal Regiment.
After marching with his unit to Belgium, he was captured in the retreat to Dunkirk in May 1940.
He was sent to Oflag VII- C, at Laufen Castle.
With six other prisoners, including Pat Reid, he dug a tunnel to escape, thought to be the first escape from a German prisoner of war camp in the Second World War.
They escaped in two groups of three, with Reid leading the first group and Lockwood in the second group with Captain Harry Elliott of the Irish Guards and Captain Dick Howe of the Royal Tank Regiment.
All six were recaptured and sent to Colditz Castle, where they became the first British prisoners to join three Canadians, who had arrived the previous day, and over 100 Poles, who had been there since September 1939.
Lockwood made and assisted in numerous escape attempts, working with the chairman of the escape committee, Pat Reid.
Reid was later replaced as escape officer by Dick Howe, and escaped; Lockwood was still at the castle when it was liberated by the US Army in April 1945.
After the war, Lockwood returned to work in the City of London, then moved to work in a Jersey branch office for 10 years.
He became the secretary of the Colditz Association, organising regular reunions until the association was wound up in 2006.
In the 1955 film," The Colditz Story", based on Reid's book of the same name, Lockwood was played by Richard Wattis.
He received an MBE in 1990.
He never married.
Geethapriya
Lakshman Rao Mohite( 15 June 1932 – 17 January 2016), better known by his pen-name Geethapriya, was an Indian film director and lyricist of the Kannada film industry.
He has directed 40 films and penned over 250 songs in Kannada films.
In 1992 – 93, he was awarded the Puttanna Kanagal Award for his contribution to Kannada cinema as a director.
Abhishek Saxena
Abhishek Saxena is an Indian Bollywood and Punjabi film director who directed the movie Phullu.
The Phullu movie was released in theaters on 16 June 2017, in which film Sharib Hashmi is the lead role.
Apart from these, he has also directed Patiala Dreamz, this is a Punjabi film.
This film was screened in cinemas in 2014.
G. Marthandan
G. Marthandan is an Indian film director who works in Malayalam cinema.
Guy Hamilton
Mervyn Ian Guy Hamilton, DSC( 16 September 1922 – 20 April 2016) was an English film director.
He directed 22 films from the 1950s to the 1980s, including four James Bond films.
C.H. Latimer-Needham
Cecil Hugh(" Chookie")
Latimer- Needham( 20 February 1900 – 5 May 1975) was a British aircraft designer, inventor and aviation author.
He is best remembered for the series of aircraft he designed for the Luton Aircraft company and his invention of the Hovercraft skirt for which he was granted a patent.
His book," Aircraft Design" proved to be an invaluable reference work for Bill Goldfinch and Jack Best during their construction of the Colditz glider.
The Germans were rather careless in providing a copy of the book in the Colditz prison library.
Hombisilu
Hombisilu is a 1978 Indian Kannada romantic drama film directed by Geethapriya.
It is based on the novel of the same name by Usha Navarathnaram.
The film starred Vishnuvardhan, Aarathi and Leelavathi in the lead roles.
Vishnuvardhan was awarded with Karnataka State Film Award for Best Actor for his performance in this film.
The film was a musical blockbuster with all the songs composed by Rajan- Nagendra considered evergreen hits.
Rajan- Nagendra re-used the song" Jeeva Veene" in the 1979 Telugu movie" Intinti Ramayanam" as" Veena Venuvaina Sarigama".
The Colditz Story
The Colditz Story is a 1955 British prisoner of war film starring John Mills and Eric Portman and directed by Guy Hamilton.
It is based on the book written by Pat Reid, a British army officer who was imprisoned in Oflag IV- C, Colditz Castle, in Germany during the Second World War and who was the Escape Officer for British POWs within the castle.

Question: Which film has the director who died later, Hombisilu or The Colditz Story?
Answer: The Colditz Story