question: in what year was the director of The Mechanic born?
answer: 1961
context: Title: Dave Ryan (motorsport)
  Passage: Dave Ryan (born 12 May 1954 in New Zealand) was formerly the Racing Director of the Manor Formula One team (until their collapse before the 2017 season), and also formerly worked for the McLaren Formula One team as chief Mechanic, Team Manager and finally Sporting Director.  He spent 35 years with McLaren until he left in April 2009 and set up VonRyan Racing to compete in GT racing.
  Title: Simon West
  Passage: Simon West (born 1961) is an English film director and producer best known for directing blockbuster action films like "Con Air, ," and "The Expendables 2".
  Title: Art Badenoch
  Passage: Arthur Hill Badenoch (November 13, 1884 – ?)  was an American football player, coach of football, basketball, and baseball, and college athletics administrator.  Badenoch played college football at the University of Chicago.  There he played as a tackle under Amos Alonzo Stagg.  Badenoch served as the head football coach at Rose Polytechnic Institute—now Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology—in 1906 and at New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts—now New Mexico State University—from 1910 to 1913, compiling a career college football coaching record of 23–7–2.  He was also the head basketball coach at New Mexico A&M from 1910 to 1913 and the school's head baseball coach in 1913.  Badenoch served at the athletic director at Rose Polytechnic during the 1906–07 academic year.  He held the same position the following year (1907–08) at the now-defunct Brigham Young College in Logan, Utah.  From 1908 to 1910, Badenoch was the athletic director of the Illinois Athletic Club in Chicago, Illinois.
  Title: Yevgeny Petrovich Fyodorov
  Passage: Fyodorov was born on 28 December 1911 in Strelna in Saint Petersburg Governorate in the family of a worker.  He graduated from junior high school in 1926 and in 1929 from a trade school, working as a mechanic in a Leningrad rail depot.  He was drafted into the Red Army in 1930.  Fyodorov graduated from the Leningrad Military Pilot School in 1932 and the Orenburg Military Pilot School a year later.  He joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1932.  Between 1933 and 1937 he served as a pilot in a long range aviation regiment.  In 1938 he became a detachment commander.  Fyodorov became a squadron commander in the 6th Long Range Aviation Regiment of the 27th Long Range Aviation Division in 1939.
  Title: William McAloney
  Passage: William Simpson "Bill" McAloney, (12 May 1910 – 31 August 1995) was a senior engineering officer in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) and an Australian exchange recipient of the George Cross, the highest civil decoration for heroism in the United Kingdom and formerly in the Commonwealth.  Born in Adelaide, he worked as a mechanic before enlisting in the RAAF as an aircraft engine fitter in 1936.  In August the following year, he attempted to rescue the pilot of a crashed Hawker Demon aircraft engulfed in flames at an airfield in Hamilton, Victoria.  The first on scene, McAloney rushed into the wreckage in an effort to extract the unconscious pilot.  The pilot's leg was trapped, however, and while struggling to free it one of the wing tanks burst, knocking McAloney unconscious.  McAloney was pulled from the aircraft suffering severe burns and spent the next month in hospital.  He was subsequently awarded the Albert Medal for his actions in the rescue attempt.
  Title: George Mackinolty
  Passage: Air Vice Marshal George John William Mackinolty, OBE (24 March 1895 – 24 February 1951) was a senior commander in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF).  Commencing his service in the Australian Flying Corps (AFC) as a mechanic during World War I, he rose to become the RAAF's chief logistics officer for more than twenty years.  Mackinolty was born in Victoria and joined the AFC in 1914.  He first saw active duty the following year in the Middle East with No. 30 Squadron Royal Flying Corps (formerly the Mesopotamian Half Flight).  In 1916 he was mentioned in despatches and posted to No. 2 Squadron AFC.  By the end of the war he had been commissioned a second lieutenant.
  Title: Herbie Blash
  Passage: Michael "Herbie" Blash (born 30 September 1948) was formerly an FIA Deputy Race Director at Formula One races.  Blash started at RRC Walker Racing as a mechanic before joining Lotus in 1968 to Graham Hill.  Into the early 1970s, he took up management responsibilities.  Blash then left Lotus after a walk-out and was employed by Frank Williams to his Politoys team.  By 1973, he was the team manager of the Brabham Formula One team working alongside Bernie Ecclestone and Gordon Murray until 1988.  From late 1995 until the end of 2016, Blash was the FIA Deputy Race Director at Formula One Grand Prix races.
  Title: Dmitry Rodin
  Passage: Rodin was born on 21 July 1912 in the village of Novostreletskaya in Ryazan Governorate to a working-class family.  In 1925, he graduated from 6th grade.  In 1932, he moved to Moscow and worked as a mechanic in a tram depot.  He was drafted into the Red Army in October 1935 and served with the 89th Separate Squadron at Kubinka.  Rodin joined the Communist Party of the Soviet UnionIduring the year.  In November 1938, he was demobilized.  Between December 1938 and July 1941 he worked with the Militsiya (civilian police) in Moscow.
  Title: The Mechanic (2011 film)
  Passage: The Mechanic is a 2011 American action thriller film directed by Simon West and starring Jason Statham and Ben Foster.  Written by Lewis John Carlino and Richard Wenk, it is a remake of the 1972 film of the same name.  Statham stars as Arthur Bishop, a professional assassin who specializes in making his hits look like accidents, suicides or the acts of petty criminals.  It was released in the United States and Canada on January 28 , 2011 to mixed reviews.  A was released on August 26, 2016.
  Title: Maurice Prather
  Passage: Maurice William Prather (September 6, 1926 - January 9, 2001) was an American motion picture and still photographer and film director.  He was born in Miami, Florida, the son of Maurice J. Prather, a mechanic, cabinet maker, and woodworker, and Zora M. Prather, both of them born in Missouri.  Young Maurice Jr. also had a younger sister, Laura Jo, some two years his junior.
citations: The Mechanic (2011 film) Simon West