director

1. Someone who controls resources and expenditures (synset 110034684)
   is a type of: administrator, decision maker - someone who administers a business
   subtypes:

   • bank manager - manager of a branch office of a bank
   • district manager - a manager who supervises the sales activity for a district
   • manageress - a woman manager
   same as: manager, managing director
2. Member of a board of directors (synset 110035230)
   is a type of: committee member - a member of a committee
   belongs to: board - a committee having supervisory powers
3. Someone who supervises the actors and directs the action in the production of a show (synset 110034960)
   is a type of: supervisor - one who supervises or has charge and direction of
   subtypes: stage director - someone who supervises the actors and directs the action in the production of a stage show
   specific instances:

   • granville-barker, harley granville-barker - English actor and dramatist and critic and director noted for his productions of Shakespearean plays (1877-1946)
   • elia kazan, elia kazanjoglous, kazan - United States stage and screen director (born in Turkey) and believer in method acting (1909-2003)
   • konstantin sergeevich alekseev, konstantin sergeyevich stanislavsky, konstantin stanislavsky, stanislavsky - Russian actor and theater director who trained his actors to emphasize the psychological motivation of their roles (1863-1938)
   same as: theater director, theatre director
4. The person who directs the making of a film (synset 110107969)
   is a type of: film maker, film producer, filmmaker, movie maker - a producer of motion pictures
   specific instances:

   • bergman, ingmar bergman - Swedish film director who used heavy symbolism and explored the psychology of the characters (born 1918)
   • bunuel, luis bunuel - Spanish film director (1900-1983)
   • alfred hitchcock, alfred joseph hitchcock, hitchcock, sir alfred hitchcock - English film director noted for his skill in creating suspense (1899-1980)
   • israel strassberg, lee strasberg, strasberg - United States actor and film director (born in Austria) who was a leader in developing method acting in the United States (1901-1982)
   same as: film director
5. The person who leads a musical group (synset 109972018)
   is a type of: musician - artist who composes or conducts music as a profession
   subtypes:

   • bandleader - the leader of a dance band
   • bandmaster - the conductor of a band
   • drum major - the leader of a marching band or drum corps
   • drum majorette, majorette - a female drum major
   specific instances:

   • bernstein, leonard bernstein - United States conductor and composer (1918-1990)
   • benjamin britten, britten, edward benjamin britten, lord britten of aldeburgh - major English composer of the 20th century; noted for his operas (1913-1976)
   • arthur fiedler, fiedler - popular United States conductor (1894-1979)
   • hindemith, paul hindemith - German neoclassical composer and conductor who believed that music should have a social purpose (1895-1963)
   • koussevitzky, serge koussevitzky, sergei aleksandrovich koussevitzky - United States conductor (born in Russia) who was noted for performing the works of contemporary composers (1874-1951)
   • constant lambert, lambert, leonard constant lambert - English composer and conductor (1905-1951)
   • gustav mahler, mahler - Austrian composer and conductor (1860-1911)
   • eugene ormandy, ormandy - United States conductor (born in Hungary) (1899-1985)
   • ozawa, seiji ozawa - United States conductor (born in Japan in 1935)
   • leopold antoni stanislaw stokowski, leopold stokowski, stokowski - United States conductor (born in Britain) (1882-1977)
   • george szell, szell - United States conductor (born in Hungary) (1897-1970)
   • arturo toscanini, toscanini - Italian conductor of many orchestras worldwide (1867-1957)
   • bruno walter, walter - German conductor (1876-1962)
   • baron karl maria friedrich ernst von weber, carl maria von weber, weber - German conductor and composer of romantic operas (1786-1826)
   • sir henry joseph wood, sir henry wood, wood - English conductor (1869-1944)
   same as: conductor, music director

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