Peter Billingsley
Peter Billingsley( born April 16, 1971), also known as Peter Michaelsen and Peter Billingsley- Michaelsen, is an American actor, director, and producer, best known for his role as Ralphie Parker in the 1983 movie" A Christmas Story", Jack Simmons in" The Dirt Bike Kid", Billy in" Death Valley", and as Messy Marvin in the Hershey's chocolate syrup commercials during the 1980s.
He began his career as an infant in television commercials.
Mike Jittlov
Mike Jittlov( born June 8, 1948) is an American animator and the creator of short films and one feature- length film using forms of special effects animation, including stop- motion animation, rotoscoping, and pixilation.
He is best known for the 1989 feature- length film" The Wizard of Speed and Time", based on his 1979 short film of the same name.
Olga C. Nardone
Olga Nida Carmena Nardone( June 8, 1921 – September 24, 2010) was an actress and one of the last surviving Munchkins from the 1939 film" The Wizard of Oz", in which she played a member of the Lullaby League.
She was known as" Little Olga" and" Princess Olga" and was one of the smallest of the Wizard of Oz Munchkins, standing at just 3 foot 4 inches( 101.6 cm) tall.
The fact that she had done ballet solos in vaudeville helped get her the part.
Michael Patrick Hearn
Michael Patrick Hearn is an American literary scholar as well as a man of letters specializing in children's literature and its illustration.
His works include "The Annotated Wizard of Oz" (1971/2000), "The Annotated Christmas Carol" (1977/2003), and "The Annotated Huckleberry Finn" (2001).
He considers the three most quintessential American novels to be "Moby-Dick" by Herman Melville, "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" by L. Frank Baum, and "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain.
He is an expert on L. Frank Baum and is currently writing a biography about him, which sets forth to correct the numerous errors in previous biographies, many based on Frank Joslyn Baum's out of print and largely mythological "To Please a Child".
As an Oz and L. Frank Baum scholar, he also edited "The Critical Heritage Edition of the Wizard of Oz" for Schocken Books (1986), wrote the introduction to the first published version of the screenplay of "The Wizard of Oz (1939 film)".
He appears in the documentaries "Oz: the American Fairyland" and "Matilda Joslyn Gage" (1983), credited as an "Authority on L. Frank Baum".
He gave the keynote address at the Centennial convention of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" mounted by The International Wizard of Oz Club, and often makes public appearances in which he lectures on Baum.
Florence Ryerson
Florence Ryerson( September 20, 1892 – June 8, 1965) was a playwright, screenwriter, and co-author of the script for the 1939 film" The Wizard of Oz".
Under the Rainbow
Under the Rainbow is a 1981 American comedy film directed by Steve Rash and starring Chevy Chase, Carrie Fisher, Eve Arden, and Billy Barty.
The plot is loosely based on the gathering of little people in a Hollywood hotel to audition for roles as Munchkins in the film" The Wizard of Oz".
Jerry Maren, who played the small role of Smokey in this film, previously played a member of the Lollipop Guild in" The Wizard of Oz".
The film was nominated for Razzie Awards for Worst Musical Score by Joe Renzetti, and Worst Supporting Actor( Billy Barty).
It received extremely negative reviews, many of which condemned the various sight gags involving the little people.
The production marked the first film role of several actors, including Phil Fondacaro and Debbie Lee Carrington.
It was partially filmed on location at the Culver Hotel, where the actors playing Munchkins stayed during the production of" The Wizard of Oz".
The Wizard of Speed and Time
The Wizard of Speed and Time is a 1989 low- budget feature film written, directed, and starring animator Mike Jittlov, as well as a 1979 16 mm short film, also by Jittlov.
Term Life
Term Life is a 2016 American action drama film based on the graphic novel of the same name.
It is directed by Peter Billingsley from a screenplay by A.J. Lieberman.
The film stars Vince Vaughn, who also produces the film, Hailee Steinfeld, Jonathan Banks, Mike Epps, Jordi Molla, Shea Whigham, William Levy, Taraji P. Henson, Annabeth Gish, and Terrence Howard.
The film was released on April 29, 2016, in a limited release and through video on demand by Focus World.
The film received negative reviews.
Roustam Tariko
Roustam Tariko( born March 17, 1962) is the founder of Russian Standard Vodka.
He also founded Russian Standard Bank, a credit card operation and a term life insurer in Russia.
In 2009, Tariko's net worth was estimated at$ 1.1 billion.
Wizard of New Zealand
The Wizard of New Zealand QSM( born Ian Brackenbury Channell; 4 December 1932) is a New Zealand educator, comedian, magician and politician.
He is also known by his shorter name, The Wizard.

Question: Do both The Wizard Of Speed And Time and Term Life films have the directors from the same country?
Answer: yes