Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes pressured Director Robert Fechner to appoint prominent African-Americans to supervisory positions such as education directors in the 143 segregated camps.

* Lady for a Day ( 1933 )— Adapted by Robert Riskin, who suggested the name change from Runyon's title " Madame La Gimp ," the film garnered Academy Award nominations for Best Picture, Best Director ( Frank Capra ), Best Actress ( May Robson ), and Best Adaptation for the Screen ( Riskin ).

The current FBI Director is Robert Mueller, who was appointed in 2001 by George W. Bush.

In 1885, he became professor of hygiene at the University of Berlin, then in 1891 he was made Honorary Professor of the medical faculty and Director of the new Prussian Institute for Infectious Diseases ( eventually renamed as the Robert Koch Institute ), a position from which he resigned in 1904.

The SEC is focusing resources on investigating insider trading by hedge funds, though a statement by SEC Enforcement Director Robert Khuzami put some of its impact in question and Senator Chuck Grassley has asked for an explanation of Khuzami's remarks.

Design of the IHÉS is said to be influenced by Robert Oppenheimer, who was then the Director of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

Robert Somerlott was a longtime resident of San Miguel de Allende where he was the Director of PEN International for many years.

After starting a collaboration on heart applications with Robert Weiss at Johns Hopkins, Bottomley returned to the university in 1994, as Russell Morgan Professor and Director of the MR Research Division.

Tarantino then went on to be credited as " Special Guest Director " in Robert Rodriguez's 2005 neo-noir film Sin City for his work directing the car sequence featuring Clive Owen and Benicio del Toro.

** The United States Senate confirms Robert Gates as Director of Central Intelligence.

* Director of Communications: Robert Luhn

Participants include Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, NSC Advisor Gen. James " Jim " Jones, Director of National Intelligence ( DNI ) Dennis Blair, Deputy National Security Adviser Tom Donilon, White House Counsel Greg Craig, CIA Director Leon Panetta, Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. James Cartwright, and White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel

The film was nominated for four Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director for Weir, and launched the acting careers of young actors Ethan Hawke and Robert Sean Leonard.

When director Frank Capra and writer Robert Riskin adapted it for the screen in 1938, the film won the Best Picture Oscar and Capra won for Best Director.

* July 27 Director Robert Belfer sells 100, 000 Enron shares.

* September 21 Director Robert Belfer sells 109, 000 Enron shares.

Aiding the president are National Security Advisor James Cutter, CIA Deputy Director of Operations Robert Ritter, and Director of Central Intelligence Arthur Moore.

It was directed by Robert Z. Leonard, who was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director.

The film was also nominated in the categories Assistant Director ( Robert Webb ) Won, Music ( Scoring ) Nomimated, Sound Recording ( E. H. Hansen ) Nominated and Writing ( Original Story ) Nominated.

Charles C. Coleman, nominated for the Academy Award for Best Assistant Director, lost to Robert Webb for In Old Chicago.

In the history of the Academy Awards, established duos have been nominated for Best Director only four times: Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins ( who won for West Side Story in 1961 ); Warren Beatty and Buck Henry ( who were nominated for Heaven Can Wait in 1978 ), and Joel Coen and Ethan Coen ( who won for No Country for Old Men in 2007 and were nominated again in 2010 for True Grit ).

* Robert Duvall as The Director ( uncredited )

By contrast, most espionage agents, such as CIA Director of Counterintelligence Aldrich Ames and FBI agent Robert Hanssen who spied on the US government for the KGB, are either recruited or offer their services as spies after they are in place as members of the target organization.

Michael Aldrich joined the company as Marketing Director in 1977 and became Managing Director and CEO in 1980.

* Michael Aldrich, Director

* Silver Bear for Best Director ( Aldrich ), Berlin International Film Festival 1956.

Aldrich served as Director of the Kyoto American Studies Institute in Japan and for short periods was visiting professor at Harvard University, the University of Michigan, and the University of Texas.

* Renu Aldrich, Managing Director at Bear Stearns ; noted publicist

The director is Tom Littler, with Musical Director Tom Attwood, and a cast that includes Issy van Randwyck ( Mayoress ), Rosalie Craig ( Nurse Fay Apple ) and David Ricardo-Pearce ( Hapgood ).

Director Stanley Kubrick believed that The Godfather was possibly the greatest movie ever made, and had without question the best cast.

The film's large cast and intertwining of many different storylines were similar to his large-cast films of the 1970s ; he won the Golden Lion at the 1993 Venice International Film Festival and another Oscar nomination for Best Director.

Director George Stevens originally cast Montgomery Clift as Shane, William Holden as Joe Starrett ; when they both proved unavailable, the film was nearly abandoned.

Director Sam Peckinpah considered many actors for the Pike Bishop role ; Lee Marvin, Burt Lancaster, James Stewart, Charlton Heston, Gregory Peck, Sterling Hayden, Richard Boone and Robert Mitchum were all considered before William Holden was cast.

Director Sam Wood pushed hard to cast Lupino, saying that she " has a natural something that Cassie should have.

Bel Geddes was the only cast member nominated for a Tony Award, and Kazan was nominated for Best Director of a Play.

Director Jan de Bont then cast Keanu Reeves as Jack Traven after seeing him in Point Break.

Director George Stevens did not have a closed set and actively encouraged the townspeople to come by, either to watch the shooting, or visit with the cast and crew, or take part as extras, dialect coaches, bit players and stagehands.

Director D. J. Caruso's decision to cast Hawke was based on the " vulnerability " he displayed in Training Day and believed he could do the same with his character.

In November 2010 it was announced that Davison would be joining the regular cast of the UK version of Law and Order as Henry Sharpe, the Director of the London Crown Prosecution Service ( CPS ).

Director Otto Preminger cast Dorothy in his 1946 film, Centennial Summer, and she was said to have been amused that she and some of the other stars were allowed to sing Jerome Kern ’ s music.

Director Aditya Chopra originally wanted to cast Tom Cruise for the role of Raj, as he wanted it to be an Indo-American affair, but was dissuaded by his father / producer Yash, who did not want a foreign star.

Willard completed a sold-out run of his " one-man show " Fred Willard: Alone At Last !, advertised as a one-man show but actually featuring a cast of 10, and received Los Angeles Artistic Director Awards for Best Comedy and Best Production.

Director Stephen Frears cast him because " he was in Mary Reilly and I knew he was brilliant.

Director Don Siegel noted that he cast Robinson because he had the face of " a choir boy.

Among other members of that production's cast were Victor Garber, Gilda Radner, Eugene Levy, Dave Thomas, and Andrea Martin ; Paul Shaffer was the Musical Director.

Directed by Michael Bennett with Assistant Director Bob Avian, the cast featured Vincent Gardenia ( Joe Benjamin ), Maria Karnilova ( Rose Benjamin ), and Charles Nelson Reilly ( Sidney Lipton ).

Director Peter Jackson cast her immediately after viewing the audition video she had filmed in Australia.

Director Russell hired his wife Shirley as costume designer and cast four of their children-Alexander, Victoria, James, and Xavier-in small roles.

* The Third Assistant Director ( Third or 3rd AD ) works on set with the " First " and may liaise with the " Second " to move actors from base camp ( the area containing the production, cast, and hair and makeup trailers ), organize crowd scenes, and supervise one or more production assistants ( PA ).

Director Seth Holt died of a heart attack five weeks into the six week shoot, collapsing into cast member Aubrey Morris's arms and dying on set.

Director Mark Rydell viewed the characters in this drama as iconically American, and he was eager to cast Sissy Spacek as the farm wife because of her performance in Coal Miner's Daughter and her home on a farm in near Charlottesville, Virginia.

Director Bryan Singer tried for a full day to get his desired shots of the cast of The Usual Suspects behaving sullenly in a police lineup, but the actors could not remain serious and kept spoiling the takes by laughing and making faces.