Simultaneously the President announced Thursday the appointment of David L. Hackett, a special assistant to the Attorney General, as executive director of the new Committee on Juvenile Delinquency and Youth Crime.

* 1942 – David Steinberg, Canadian comedian, actor, director, and author

* 1959 – David Frankel, American director, screenwriter and producer

* 1962 – David Fincher, American director

In 1947, David Brown Limited bought the company under the leadership of managing director Sir David Brown — its " post-war saviour ".

* 2003 – David Greene, British director ( b. 1921 )

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 ).

For instance, David Letterman is well known for branching into late night television as a talk show host while honing his skills a stand-up comedian, Barbra Streisand ventured into acting while operating as a singer, or Clint Eastwood, who achieved even greater fame in Hollywood for being a film director and a producer than for his acting credentials.

David Rothkopf, managing director of Kissinger Associates and an adjunct professor of international affairs at Columbia University ( who also served as a senior US Commerce Department official in the Clinton Administration ), wrote about cultural imperialism in his provocatively titled In Praise of Cultural Imperialism?

David Pleasance, managing director of Commodore UK, described the A600 as a ' complete and utter screw-up '.

David Llewelyn Wark " D. W ." Griffith ( January 22, 1875 – July 23, 1948 ) was a premier pioneering American film director.

David Keith Lynch ( born January 20, 1946 ) is an American filmmaker, television director, visual artist, musician and occasional actor.

David Abelevich Kaufman () ( 2 January 1896 – 12 February 1954 ) — better known by his pseudonym Dziga Vertov, or Vertof (, " spinning top ") — was a Soviet pioneer documentary film, newsreel director and cinema theorist.

* Catherine Cathiard and David Zeitoun, group legal director, Unibail-Rodamco, " The European Company: advantages and opportunities ", DECIDEURS Stratégie Finance Droit n ° 108, sept. 2009 ( available in French and English, see External links hereunder ).

When The Byrds performed on December 12, 1965, David Crosby got into a shouting match with the show's director.

* 1921 – David Greene, British director ( d. 2003 )

He eventually settled for being billed as assistant director and then left Paramount to work with David O. Selznick at RKO Studios.

Wes Craven's The Hills Have Eyes ( 1977 ) and Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ( 1974 ) recalled the Vietnam war ; George A. Romero satirized the consumer society in his zombie sequel, Dawn of the Dead ( 1978 ); Canadian director David Cronenberg featured the " mad scientist " movie sub-genre by exploring contemporary fears about technology and society, and reinventing " body horror ", starting with Shivers ( 1975 ).

* 1967 – David Chacón Perez, Venezuelan director and producer

Thus the ceremony held at the site of the demolished Bastille, organized by the foremost artistic director of the Revolution, Jacques-Louis David, in August 1793 to mark the inauguration of the new republican constitution, an event coming shortly after the final abolition of all forms of feudal privilege, featured a cantata based on Rousseau's democratic pantheistic deism as expounded in the celebrated " Profession de foi d ' un vicaire savoyard " in Book Four of Émile.

* 1961 – David Winning, Canadian director

* 1908 – Sir David Lean, English film director ( d. 1991 )

* 1969 – J. David Shapiro, American screenwriter, actor and director

* 1936 – David Nelson, American actor and director ( d. 2011 )

From 1817 to 1823, Bernardo O ' Higgins ruled Chile as supreme director.

The writer / director / producer team of twin brothers John and Roy Boulting also produced a series of successful satires on British life and institutions, beginning with Private's Progress ( 1956 ), and continuing with Brothers in Law ( 1957 ), Carlton-Browne of the F. O.

* 1971 – Renée O ' Connor, American actress and director

In 1969, Tony O ' Reilly joined the company's UK subsidiary, soon becoming its managing director ; he

Bernardo O ' Higgins was the first Supreme director of Chile.

* One Round O ' Brien ( 1912, director )

* At Twelve O ' Clock ( 1913, actor, director and producer )

Peter O ' Toole and Frances Tomelty took the leads in a production ( by Bryan Forbes ) that was publicly disowned by Timothy West, artistic director of the theatre, before opening night, despite being a sellout because of its notoriety.

* 1937 – Ron O ' Neal, American actor, director, and screenwriter ( d. 2004 )

Oliver Parker, an English director who had previously adapted other plays by Wilde, made a film in 2002 ; it stars Colin Firth ( Jack ), Rupert Everett ( Algy ), Dame Judi Dench ( Lady Bracknell ), Reese Witherspoon ( Cecily ), Frances O ' Connor ( Gwendolen ), Anna Massey ( Miss Prism ), and Tom Wilkinson ( Dr. Chasuble ).

Producer Lou Morheim originally bought the rights to Seven Samurai, with plans to have Anthony Quinn as lead ; according to Variety Brynner " got the rights away from Quinn " and brought Sturges into the project as director, based on the latter's work on Gunfight at the O. K.

** George O ' Hanlon, American actor and director ( b. 1912 )

O ' Rourke was married to Amy Lumet, a daughter of movie director Sidney Lumet and a granddaughter of Lena Horne, from 1990 to 1993.

Edward Teller and Ernest O. Lawrence, director of the Radiation Laboratory at Berkeley, are regarded as the co-founders of the Livermore Laboratory.

The first OMB included Roy Ash ( head ), Paul O ' Neill ( assistant director ), Fred Malek ( deputy director ) and Frank Zarb ( associate director ) and two dozen others.

It was eventually adapted by director Just Jaeckin in 1975 as Histoire d ' O ( The Story of O ), starring Corinne Cléry and Udo Kier.

In 1975, American director Gerard Damiano, well known for Deep Throat ( 1972 ) and The Devil in Miss Jones ( 1973 ) created the movie The Story of Joanna, highly influenced by the Story of O, by combining the motifs from one of the book's chapters and from Jean-Paul Sartre's No Exit.

In 1979, Danish director Lars von Trier made the short movie entitled Menthe — la bienheureuse, as an homage to Story of O.

His first major film as director, Dark Star ( 1974 ), was a science fiction black comedy that he cowrote with Dan O ' Bannon ( who later went on to write Alien, borrowing freely from much of Dark Star ).

In 1968, O ' Brien was appointed by Vice President Hubert Humphrey to serve as the national director of Humphrey's presidential campaign and, separately, by Howard Hughes, to serve as Hughes ' public-policy lobbyist in Washington.