Question: Who was the director of the 1959 CinemaScope drama film starring the actor who received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for 1943's "The More the Merrier"?
Context: Nick Meyer is an American film producer and CEO of Sierra/Affinity.  Meyer was the president of Paramount Vantage until December 2008.  In 2007, with Meyer as co-head of Paramount, the Studio received 19 Academy Award nominations.  Four of the Studio's 2007 feature films were honored: "There Will Be Blood", a Paramount Vantage and Miramax co-production, received eight nominations, winning Best Picture among others; "No Country for Old Men", also a Miramax and Paramount Vantage co-production, received eight nominations; "Into the Wild" earned two nominations; "The Kite Runner" garnered one nomination.  At the 80th Academy Awards, Blood and No Country won a combined six awards, including the Academy Award for Best Picture for No Country, the Academy Award for Best Actor for Daniel Day-Lewis in Blood, and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Javier Bardem in No Country. Kevin Spacey Fowler, KBE (born July 26, 1959) is an American actor, film director, producer, screenwriter, and singer.  He began his career as a stage actor during the 1980s before obtaining supporting roles in film and television.  He gained critical acclaim in the early 1990s that culminated in his first Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the neo-noir crime thriller "The Usual Suspects" (1995), and an Academy Award for Best Actor for midlife crisis-themed drama "American Beauty" (1999). Patrick Hivon (born July 5, 1975) is a Canadian actor from Quebec.  He was a Jutra Award nominee for Best Supporting Actor at the 17th Jutra Awards in 2015 for "L'Ange gardien", a Gémeaux Award nominatee as Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 2015 for "Nouvelle adresse", and a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Supporting Actor at the 4th Canadian Screen Awards in 2016 for "Ville-Marie". This is a list of winners of the Academy Award of Merit for Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role, presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry.  More popularly known as the Academy Award (or the Oscar) for Best Supporting Actor, this award was initially presented at the 9th Academy Awards ceremony for 1936 and was most recently presented at the 88th Academy Awards ceremony for 2015.  Throughout the past 80 years, accounting for ties and repeat winners, AMPAS has presented a total of 81 Best Supporting Actor awards to 73 different actors.  This list is current as of the 89th Academy Awards ceremony held on February 26, 2017. Stranger in My Arms (aka And Ride a Tiger) is a 1959 CinemaScope drama film directed by Helmut Käutner and stars June Allyson, Jeff Chandler, Sandra Dee, Charles Coburn, Mary Astor and Peter Graves. Stranger in My Arms (aka And Ride a Tiger) is a 1959 CinemaScope drama film directed by Helmut Käutner and stars June Allyson, Jeff Chandler, Sandra Dee, Charles Coburn, Mary Astor and Peter Graves. Charles Douville Coburn (June 19, 1877 – August 30, 1961) was an American film and theatre actor.  Best known for his work in comedies, Coburn received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for 1943's "The More the Merrier". Aaron Paul Sturtevant (born August 27, 1979), known as Aaron Paul, is an American actor.  He is best known for portraying Jesse Pinkman in the AMC series "Breaking Bad", for which he won several awards, including the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series (2014), the Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries, or Television Film (2013), and the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series.  This made him the only actor to win the latter category three times (2010, 2012, 2014), since its separation into drama and comedy.  He has also won the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor on Television three times (2009, 2011, 2013), more than any other actor in that category. Octavia Lenora Spencer (born May 25, 1972) is an American actress and author.  She made her film debut in the 1996 drama film "A Time to Kill".  Her breakthrough came in 2011, when she starred as Minny Jackson in the period drama film "The Help", for which she won the Academy Award, Golden Globe, SAG, BAFTA, and Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Supporting Actress.  She had a critically acclaimed performance in Ryan Coogler's drama "Fruitvale Station" (2013), for which she received the National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress.  Spencer has received acclaim for her work in the films "Smashed" (2012), "Snowpiercer" (2013), "Get on Up" (2014), "The Divergent Series" (2015-2016), "Zootopia" (2016) and "The Shape of Water" (2017).  In 2017, she received Academy Award, Golden Globe, and SAG nominations for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as mathematician Dorothy Vaughan in the drama "Hidden Figures". Crossfire is a 1947 film noir drama film which deals with the theme of anti-Semitism, as did that year's Academy Award for Best Picture winner, "Gentleman's Agreement".  The film was directed by Edward Dmytryk and the screenplay was written by John Paxton, based on the 1945 novel "The Brick Foxhole" by screenwriter and director Richard Brooks.  The film features Robert Mitchum, Robert Young, Robert Ryan and Gloria Grahame.  It received five Academy Award nominations, including Ryan for Best Supporting Actor and Gloria Grahame for Best Supporting Actress.  It was the first B movie to receive a best picture nomination.
Answer: Helmut Käutner