John Adair (author) John Adair (author) Professor John Eric Adair (born 18 May 1934) is a British academic who is a leadership theorist and author of more than forty books (translated into eighteen languages) on business, military and other leadership. Adair was born in Luton and educated at St Paul's School before undertaking his National Service as a second lieutenant in the Scots Guards from 1953 to 1955. Unusually, he served as adjutant of a Bedouin regiment in the Arab Legion and was briefly in command of the garrison of Jerusalem in the front line. He also studied at Hull Nautical College (where
John Blanchard "Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the Thirteenth". John Blanchard John Blanchard is a Canadian television director and producer. He is best known for his directorial work on the sketch comedy series "SCTV", "The Kids in the Hall", "CODCO", "MADtv" and the talk show "The Martin Short Show" for which he won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing in a Talk Show. He also directed episodes of the sitcoms "Grounded for Life", "Wanda at Large", "Cavemen", and "Unhitched", as well as a number of television films one of his notable films being "The Last Polka" (1985)