And just last week the director of another radio station that was considering broadcasts of the service died in a suspicious car accident.

The director of a juvenile prison, however the man already died before Hertogs could carry out his plan.

But last year the museum's director died, and a successor has not been appointed.

A close friend reached at home said the director had died in a Rome hospital from complications of surgery.

The longtime director, David Brown, died of complications suffered in a car accident.

As other directors left and died, Murphy became the other director in 1974.

It's one that would have been greeted with the same fascination had its director not died four days after completing it.

Addressing a group of would-be actors, she said the best way to get along with tough directors was "don't die when they knock you down."

It is Jean Rollin's final film, as the director died in late 2010.

The director nearly died at the time, though reportedly because of his excesses, not his asthma.