David Mervyn Johns( 18 February 18996 September 1992) was a Welsh film and television character actor who became a star of British films during World War II.
In the postwar era, he worked frequently at Ealing Studios.
Mervyn Johns started his career in the theatre in the 1920s, and then made his first film in 1935.
Among his dozens of film roles were the church warden in" Went the Day Well?"( 1942), the fearful architect Walter Craig in the mystery film" Dead of Night"( 1945) and Bob Cratchit in" Scrooge"( 1951) with Alastair Sim.
Johns also made many television appearances, in series such as" The Avengers The SaintDanger Man" and" Dixon of Dock Green".
He was known for his" mostly mild- mannered, lugubrious, amusing, sometimes moving' little men'" in over 100 film and television series.
Johns was twice married.
His first wife was the concert pianist Alys Steele.
They had one daughter, the actress Glynis Johns, born in South Africa, with whom he appeared in" The Halfway House"( 1944) and" The Sundowners"( 1960).
After Alys's death in 1970 he married the actress Diana Churchill in 1976.
The Subterraneans is a 1960 film directed by Ranald MacDougall based on the 1958 novel of the same name by Jack Kerouac.
Wylie Watson
( 6 February 1889 – 3 May 1966)( born John Wylie Robertson) was a British actor.
Among his best- known roles were those of" Mr Memory", an amazing man who commits" 50 new facts to his memory every day" in Alfred Hitchcock's film" The 39 Steps"( 1935), and wily storekeeper Joseph Macroon in the Ealing comedy" Whisky Galore!"( 1949).
He emigrated to Australia in 1952, and made his final film appearance there in" The Sundowners"( 1960).
Kommissar X – In den Klauen des goldenen Drachen( English: So Darling So Deadly) is a 1966 Eurospy film co-written and directed by Gianfranco Parolini and starring Tony Kendall and Brad Harris.
It is the third of seven films, loosely based on the Kommissar X detective novels from the Pabel Moewig publishing house.
The Time Machine is a 2002 American science fiction film loosely adapted from the 1895 novel of the same name by H. G. Wells and the screenplay of the 1960 film of the same name by David Duncan.
Arnold Leibovit served as executive producer and Simon Wells, the great- grandson of the original author, served as director.
The film stars Guy Pearce, Orlando Jones, Samantha Mumba, Mark Addy, and Jeremy Irons, and includes a cameo by Alan Young, who also appeared in the 1960 film adaptation.
The film is set in New York City instead of London, and contains new story elements not present in the original novel nor the 1960 film adaptation, including a romantic backstory, a new scenario about how civilization was destroyed, and several new characters such as an artificially intelligent hologram and a Morlock leader.
It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Makeup( John M. Elliot Jr. and Barbara Lorenz) at the 75th Academy Awards, but lost to" Frida".
The Sundowners is a 1960 Technicolor film that tells the story of an Australian outback family torn between the father's desires to continue his nomadic sheep- herding ways and the wife's and son's desire to settle down in one place.
The film stars Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, and Peter Ustinov, with a supporting cast including Glynis Johns, Dina Merrill, Michael Anderson Jr., and Chips Rafferty.
The screenplay was adapted by Isobel Lennart from Jon Cleary's novel of the same name; it was produced and directed by Fred Zinnemann.
It falls into the Australian meat pie Western genre.
At the 33rd Academy Awards," The Sundowners" was nominated for Best Actress in a Leading Role( Deborah Kerr), Best Actress in a Supporting Role( Glynis Johns), Best Director, Best Picture, and Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium.
Alfred Zinnemann( April 29, 1907 – March 14, 1997) was an Austrian- born American film director.
He won four Academy Awards for directing films in various genres, including thrillers, westerns, film noir and play adaptations.
He made 25 feature films during his 50- year career.
He was among the first directors to insist on using authentic locations and for mixing stars with civilians to give his films more realism.
Within the film industry, he was considered a maverick for taking risks and there by creating unique films, with many of his stories being dramas about lone and principled individuals tested by tragic events.
According to one historian, Zinnemann's style demonstrated his sense of" psychological realism and his apparent determination to make worthwhile pictures that are nevertheless highly entertaining."
Among his films were" The Search"( 1947)," The Men"( 1950)," High Noon"( 1952)," From Here to Eternity"( 1953)," Oklahoma!"( 1955)," The Nun's Story"( 1959)," A Man For All Seasons"( 1966)," The Day of the Jackal"( 1973), and" Julia"( 1977).
His films have received 65 Oscar nominations, winning 24.
Zinnemann directed and introduced a number of stars in their U.S. film debuts, including Marlon Brando, Rod Steiger, Pier Angeli, Julie Harris, Brandon de Wilde, Montgomery Clift, Shirley Jones and Meryl Streep.
He directed 19 actors to Oscar nominations, including Frank Sinatra, Montgomery Clift, Audrey Hepburn, Glynis Johns, Paul Scofield, Robert Shaw, Wendy Hiller, Jason Robards, Vanessa Redgrave, Jane Fonda, Gary Cooper and Maximilian Schell.
The Sundowners is a 1950 American Technicolor Western film directed by George Templeton.
The film is also known as Thunder in the Dust in the United Kingdom.
Le Propre de l'homme is a 1960 film directed by Claude Lelouch.
Gianfranco Parolini( 20 February 1925 in Rome, Italy – 26 April 2018 in Rome, Italy) was an Italian film director.
He is often credited as Frank Kramer.
Among his films are" The Sabata Trilogy", several sword and sandal films, most of the Kommissar X films and a number of Spaghetti Westerns.
He claimed to have written over 100 thriller novels before becoming an assistant to Giuseppe D'Amato.

Question: Do both films: The Sundowners (1960 Film) and Kommissar X – In Den Klauen Des Goldenen Drachen have the directors from the same country?
Answer: no