query: date_of_birth claudia weill
supports: A Mighty Wind is a 2003 American mockumentary comedy film about a folk music reunion concert in which three folk bands reunite for a television performance for the first time in decades. The film was directed, co-written and composed by Christopher Guest. The film is widely acknowledged to reference the 2003 tribute concert to folk music producer Harold Leventhal that reunited several of the folk groups that Leventhal had managed. More broadly, the film is a parody of the American folk music revival of the early 1960s and its personalities. Kirk Douglas (born Issur Danielovitch; December 9, 1916) is an American actor, producer, director, and author. He is one of the last living people of the industry's Golden Age. After an impoverished childhood with immigrant parents and six sisters, he had his film debut in "The Strange Love of Martha Ivers" (1946) with Barbara Stanwyck. Douglas soon developed into a leading box-office star throughout the 1950s and 1960s, known for serious dramas, including westerns and war movies. During a 64-year acting career, he has appeared in more than 90 movies. Jill Clayburgh (April 30, 1944  November 5, 2010) was an American actress. She won Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in the 1978 film "An Unmarried Woman", and received a second Best Actress Academy Award nomination for the 1979 film "Starting Over". The Cannes Festival (French: Festival de Cannes), named until 2002 as the International Film Festival ("Festival international du film") and known in English as the Cannes Film Festival, is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films of all genres, including documentaries, from all around the world. Founded in 1946, the invitation-only festival is held annually (usually in May) at the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès. Christopher Haden-Guest, 5th Baron Haden-Guest (born February 5, 1948), better known as Christopher Guest, is an English-American screenwriter, composer, musician, director, actor, and comedian who holds dual British and American citizenship. He is most widely known in Hollywood for having written, directed and starred in a series of comedy films shot in mock-documentary (mockumentary) style. Scenes and character backgrounds are written, but actors have no rehearsal time and the ensemble improvise scenes while filming them. This series of films began with "This Is Spinal Tap" (directed by Rob Reiner), and continued with "Waiting for Guffman", "Best In Show", "A Mighty Wind", "For Your Consideration"; and "Mascots". Guest also had a featured role as the evil six-fingered Count Rugen in the film "The Princess Bride". Baron Haden-Guest, of Saling in the County of Essex, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1950 for the Labour Party politician Leslie Haden-Guest. He had previously represented Southwark North and Islington North in the House of Commons. His third son, the fourth Baron (who succeeded his half-brother in 1987, who in his turn had succeeded his brother in 1974), was a United Nations official for many years. Charles Grodin (born April 21, 1935) is an American actor, comedian, author, and former cable talk show host. This Is Spnal Tap is a 1984 American rock music mockumentary comedy film written, scored by, and starring Rob Reiner, Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer. The film portrays the fictional British heavy metal band Spinal Tap. Directed by Reiner, the movie satirizes the wild personal behavior and musical pretensions of hard rock and heavy metal bands, as well as the hagiographic tendencies of rock documentaries of the time. Robert "Rob" Reiner (born March 6, 1947) is an American actor, writer, director, producer, and activist. As an actor, Reiner first came to national prominence with the role of Meathead on "All in the Family" (197179). That role earned him two Emmy Awards during the 1970s. As a director, Reiner was recognized by the Directors Guild of America (DGA) with nominations for the coming of age comedy-drama film "Stand by Me" (1986), the romantic comedy "When Harry Met Sally..." (1989), and the military courtroom drama "A Few Good Men" (1992). He also directed the psychological horror-thriller "Misery" (1990), the romantic comedy fantasy adventure "The Princess Bride" (1987) and the heavy metal mockumentary "This Is Spinal Tap" (1984). An Unmarried Woman is a 1978 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Paul Mazursky, and starring Jill Clayburgh. Eli Herschel Wallach (December 7, 1915  June 24, 2014) was an American film, television and stage actor whose career spanned more than six decades, beginning in the late 1940s. Trained in stage acting, which he enjoyed doing most, he became "one of the greatest 'character actors' ever to appear on stage and screen" states TCM, with over 90 film credits. On stage, he often co-starred with his wife, Anne Jackson, becoming one of the best-known acting couples in the American theater. Robert Elmer "Bob" Balaban (born August 16, 1945) is an American actor, author, producer, and director. He was one of the producers nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture for "Gosford Park" (2001), in which he also appeared. Anna Jane "Anne" Jackson (September 3, 1925  April 12, 2016) was an American actress of stage, screen, and television. She was the wife of actor Eli Wallach, with whom she often co-starred. In 1956, she was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her performance in Paddy Chayefsky's "Middle of the Night". Waiting for Guffman is a 1997 American mockumentary comedy film co-written and directed by Christopher Guest. The film's cast includes Catherine O'Hara, Eugene Levy, Fred Willard, and Parker Posey. The Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the Academy Awards presented annually since the awards debuted in 1929, by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to producers working in the film industry and is the only category in which every member is eligible to submit a nomination. The actors or actresses in the film will not accept this award unless he or she produced the film. Melanie Joy Mayron (born October 20, 1952) is an American actress and director of film and television. Mayron is best known for portraying the role of photographer Melissa Steadman on the ABC drama "thirtysomething". Michael Kirk Douglas (born September 25, 1944) is an American actor and producer. Gosford Park is a 2001 British mystery film directed by Robert Altman and written by Julian Fellowes. The film stars an ensemble cast, which includes Eileen Atkins, Bob Balaban, Alan Bates, Charles Dance, Stephen Fry, Michael Gambon, Richard E. Grant, Derek Jacobi, Kelly Macdonald, Helen Mirren, Jeremy Northam, Clive Owen, Ryan Phillippe, Maggie Smith, Kristin Scott Thomas, and Emily Watson. The story follows a party of wealthy Britons and an American, and their servants, who gather for a shooting weekend at Gosford Park, an English country house. A murder occurs after a dinner party, and the film goes on to present the subsequent investigation from the servants' and guests' perspectives. Claudia Weill is an American film director best known for her film Girlfriends ( 1978 ) , starring Melanie Mayron , Christopher Guest , Bob Balaban and Eli Wallach , made independently and sold to Warner Bros after multiple awards at Cannes , Filmex and Sundance . It 's My Turn ( 1980 for Columbia Pictures ) , with Jill Clayburgh , Michael Douglas , and Charles Grodin won her the Donatello , or International Oscar for best new director . Earlier work includes thirty films for Sesame Street , freelancing as a camerawoman and numerous documentaries , notably The Other Half of the Sky : A China Memoir , a documentary about the first women 's delegation to China in 1973 , headed by Shirley MacLaine , nominated for an Academy Award and released theatrically and on PBS . In 1979 , the Supersisters trading card set was produced and distributed ; one of the cards featured Weill 's name and picture . After moving to Los Angeles in 1986 , Weill began directing tv episodes of Thirtysomething , My So - Called Life , Once and Again , Chicago Hope , and numerous pilots . Most recently , she has been directing Girls for HBO . Originally a theatre director ( Williamstown , The ONeill , Sundance , ACT , Empty Space and in New York at MTC , the Public , and Circle Rep ) , she won the Drama Desk 's Best Director Award for the premiere of Donald Margulies '' Found a Peanut produced by Joe Papp at the Public Theater in 1984 . More recently she directed The Belle of Belfast by Nate Rufus Edelman at EST , Twelfth Night for Antaeus , the West Coast Premiere of Pulitzer Prize winner Doubt by John Patrick Shanley ( with Linda Hunt ) at the Pasadena Playhouse , Memory House , End Days , Tape , numerous workshops of Modern Orthodox , Adam Baum and the Jew Movie ( Goldfarb ) , The Parents ' Evening by Bathsheba Doran at the Vineyard Playhouse , and Huck and Holden by Rajiv Joseph at the Black Dahlia , among others . Weill has guest taught directing for film , television and / or theatre at Harvard , NYU , Juilliard , and Cal Arts and is currently teaching TV Directing at Columbia . Previously she was a Professor at USC in the School of Cinema . She mentors playwrights and directors . Weill 's distant cousin was the composer Kurt Weill , famous for such works as The Threepenny Opera , which contained the popular song `` Mack the Knife '' . She graduated from Harvard University in 1969 .
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answer: 1947