Howard Winchel Koch( April 11, 1916 – February 16, 2001) was an American producer and director of film and television.
William Clemens( September 10, 1905 – April 29, 1980) was an American film director.
Born in Saginaw, Michigan, Clemens began his Hollywood career as a film editor in 1931.
His first directing project was" Man Hunt" in 1936.
His major credits include" On Dress Parade" with the Dead End Kids, two Perry Mason mysteries(" The Case of the Velvet Claws" and" The Case of the Stuttering Bishop"), three films featuring detective Tom Lawrence, a.k.a.
" The Falcon," four films based on the Nancy Drew series, and" Calling Philo Vance" in 1940.
Clemens' final project was" The Thirteenth Hour" in 1947.
He died in Los Angeles, California in 1980.
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.
Hanro Smitsman, born in 1967 in Breda( Netherlands), is a writer and director of film and television.
Bernard Herzbrun( January 10, 1891 – January 7, 1964) was an American art director.
He was nominated an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film" Alexander's Ragtime Band".
He worked on 275 films between 1930 and 1955.
He was born in New York City, New York and died in Los Angeles, California.
Henry King( January 24, 1886 June 29, 1982) was an American actor and film director.
Seven films directed by King were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre.
Mr. Chump is a 1938 American comedy film directed by William Clemens and written by George Bricker.
The film stars Johnnie Davis, Lola Lane, Penny Singleton, Donald Briggs, Chester Clute and Frank Orth.
The film was released by Warner Bros. on August 8, 1938.
Brian Johnson( born 1939 or 1940) is a British designer and director of film and television special effects.
Alexander's Ragtime Band is a 1938 musical film released by 20th Century Fox that takes its name from the 1911 Irving Berlin song" Alexander's Ragtime Band" to tell a story of a society boy who scandalizes his family by pursuing a career in ragtime instead of in" serious" music.
The film generally traces the history of jazz music from the popularization of Ragtime in the early years of the 20th century to the acceptance of swing as an art form in the late 1930s using music composed by Berlin.
The story spans more than two decades from the 1911 release of its name- sake song to some point in time after the 1933 release of" Heat Wave", presumably 1938.
It stars Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Ethel Merman, Jack Haley and Jean Hersholt.
Several actual events in the history of jazz are fictionalized and adapted to the story including the tour of Europe by Original Dixieland Jass Band, the global spread of jazz by U.S. soldiers during World War I, and the 1938 Carnegie Hall performance by The Benny Goodman Orchestra.
There are no mentions of the primary importance of blacks in creating and playing jazz anywhere in the film.
The story was written by Berlin himself, with Kathryn Scola, Richard Sherman( 1905 – 1962) and Lamar Trotti.
It was directed by Henry King
It is believed by some that both the song and the movie were inspired by a real bandleader, Alexander Constantin Jr. of New Orleans( also known as" King" Watzke), and his band, Alexander's Ragtime Band, which was popular c. 1904- 11.

Question: Are director of film Mr. Chump and director of film Alexander's Ragtime Band (film) from the same country?
Answer: yes