The Drivin' Fool is a 1923 American silent comedy action film directed by Robert Thornby and starring Wally Van, Alec B. Francis and Patsy Ruth Miller.
Fred R. Krug is an American film and television producer- director born in Bern, Switzerland.
Robert Thornby( March 27, 1888 – March 6, 1953) was an American director and actor of the silent era.
He directed 75 films between 1913 and 1927.
He also appeared in 48 films between 1911 and 1930.
He was born in New York, New York and died in Los Angeles, California.
John Hoesli( 8 March 1919 – 22 March 1997) was a British art and set decorator.
He is best known for being the art director on films such as John Huston's" The African Queen", Stanley Kubrick's( 1968), Anthony Asquith's" Orders to Kill"( 1958) with Alan Withy, and Jeannot Szwarc's( 1985) with Don Dossett.
It was Hoesli who found the old steamboat used in" The African Queen" at Butiaba on Lake Albert.
Hoesli was also an assistant art director for many films which often went uncredited including Alfred Hitchcock's" Jamaica Inn"( 1939), Gerald Thomas's" Carry on Emmannuelle"( 1978), and" Lifeforce"( 1985), and worked as a set decorator for films such as John Boorman's" Deliverance"( 1972).
He died in March 1997 at the age of 78 in Bracknell, Berkshire.
Jacques Décombe is a French author, actor and director born in 1953.
The African Queen is a 1951 British- American adventure film adapted from the 1935 novel of the same name by C. S. Forester.
The film was directed by John Huston and produced by Sam Spiegel and John Woolf.
The screenplay was adapted by James Agee, John Huston, John Collier and Peter Viertel.
It was photographed in Technicolor by Jack Cardiff and has a music score by Allan Gray.
The film stars Humphrey Bogart( who won the Academy Award for Best Actor – his only Oscar), and Katharine Hepburn with Robert Morley, Peter Bull, Walter Gotell, Richard Marner and Theodore Bikel.
" The African Queen" was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry in 1994, with the Library of Congress deeming it" culturally, historically or aesthetically significant".
The film holds a 98% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 41 reviews.
Claude Weisz is a French film director born in Paris.
Sepideh Farsi is an Iranian film director, born in Tehran in 1965.
Yolonda Ross is an American character actress, writer and director born (31 July 1974).
John Marcellus Huston( August 5, 1906 – August 28, 1987) was an American film director, screenwriter, actor, and visual artist.
Huston was a citizen of the United States by birth but renounced U.S. citizenship to become an Irish citizen and resident.
He returned to the United States, where he lived the rest of his life.
He wrote the screenplays for most of the 37 feature films he directed, many of which are today considered classics:" The Maltese Falcon"( 1941)," The Treasure of the Sierra Madre"( 1948)," The Asphalt Jungle"( 1950)," The African Queen"( 1951)," The Misfits"( 1961)," Fat City"( 1972)," The Man Who Would Be King"( 1975) and" Prizzi's Honor"( 1986).
During his 46- year career, Huston received 15 Oscar nominations, winning twice, and directed both his father, Walter Huston, and daughter, Anjelica Huston, to Oscar wins.
Huston studied and worked as a fine art painter in Paris in his early years.
He explored the visual aspects of his films throughout his career, sketching each scene on paper beforehand, then carefully framing his characters during the shooting.
While most directors rely on post-production editing to shape their final work, Huston instead created his films while they were being shot, with little editing needed.
Some of Huston's films were adaptations of important novels, often depicting an" heroic quest," as in" Moby Dick", or" The Red Badge of Courage".
In many films, different groups of people, while struggling toward a common goal, would become doomed, forming" destructive alliances," giving the films a dramatic and visual tension.
Many of his films involved themes such as religion, meaning, truth, freedom, psychology, colonialism, and war.
Huston has been referred to as" a titana rebel", and a" renaissance man" in the Hollywood film industry.
Author Ian Freer describes him as" cinema's Ernest Hemingway" — a filmmaker who was" never afraid to tackle tough issues head on."

Question: Which film has the director born earlier, The Drivin' Fool or The African Queen (Film)?
Answer: The Drivin' Fool