Robert Anderson (playwright)
Robert Woodruff Anderson( April 28, 1917 – February 9, 2009) was an American playwright, screenwriter, and theatrical producer.
He received two Academy Award nominations for Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium, for the drama films" The Nun's Story"( 1959) and" I Never Sang for My Father"( 1970).
Gene Hackman
Eugene Allen Hackman( born January 30, 1930) is a retired American actor and novelist.
In a career that spanned more than six decades, Hackman won two Academy Awards, four Golden Globes, one Screen Actors Guild Award, and two BAFTAs.
Nominated for five Academy Awards, Hackman won Best Actor for his role as Jimmy" Popeye" Doyle in the critically acclaimed thriller" The French Connection"( 1971), and Best Supporting Actor as" Little" Bill Daggett in the Clint Eastwood Western" Unforgiven"( 1992).
His other nominations for Best Supporting Actor came with the films" Bonnie and Clyde"( 1967) and" I Never Sang for My Father"( 1970), with a second Best Actor nomination for" Mississippi Burning"( 1988).
Hackman's other major film roles included" The Poseidon Adventure"( 1972)," The Conversation"( 1974)," French Connection II"( 1975)," Superman: The Movie"( 1978) — as arch-villain Lex Luthor —" Hoosiers"( 1986)," The Firm"( 1993)," Crimson Tide"( 1995)," Enemy of the State"( 1998)," Behind Enemy Lines"( 2001)," The Royal Tenenbaums( 2001)", and" Welcome to Mooseport"( 2004).
This Is My Father
This Is My Father is a 1998 film directed by Paul Quinn.
Gilbert Cates
Gilbert "Gil" Cates (né Katz; June 6, 1934 – October 31, 2011) was an American film director and television producer, director of the Geffen Playhouse, and founding dean of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television.
Cates is most known for having produced the Academy Awards telecast a record 14 times between 1990 and 2008.<ref name="LAT2011/11"> </ref
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Vivian Matalon
Vivian Matalon( 11 October 1929 – 15 August 2018) was a British theatre director.
Born in Manchester, Matalon began his career as an actor in a series of forgettable British films, but his greatest success has been as a director of West End, Broadway and regional theatre productions.
His West End credits include" Bus Stop" with Lee Remick and Keir Dullea," I Never Sang for My Father" with Raymond Massey and" The Glass Menagerie" with Anna Massey.
He was artistic director for three years at the Hampstead Theatre, where his productions included Clifford Odets'" Awake and Sing" and the European premiere of" Small Craft Warnings" by Tennessee Williams.
Matalon served on the Artistic Advisory Board of New York City's New World's Theatre Project, which makes late 19th and early 20th century Yiddish plays accessible to contemporary audiences in modern English translations.
Ruth Stiles Gannett
Ruth Stiles Gannett Kahn( born August 12, 1923) is an American children's writer best known for" My Father's Dragon" and its two sequels — collectively sometimes called the My Father's Dragon or the Elmer and the Dragons series or trilogy.
Rob Reiner
Robert Reiner( born March 6, 1947) is an American actor and filmmaker.
As an actor, Reiner first came to national prominence with the role of Michael Stivic on" All in the Family"( 1971 – 1979), a role that earned him two Emmy Awards during the 1970s.
As a director, Reiner was recognized by the Directors Guild of America( DGA) with nominations for the coming of age drama film" Stand by Me"( 1986), the romantic comedy" When Harry Met Sally ..."( 1989), and the military courtroom drama" A Few Good Men"( 1992).
He also directed the psychological horror- thriller" Misery"( 1990), the romantic comedy fantasy adventure" The Princess Bride"( 1987), and the heavy metal mockumentary" This Is Spinal Tap"( 1984).
The Princess Bride (film)
The Princess Bride is a 1987 American fantasy adventure comedy film directed and co-produced by Rob Reiner, starring Cary Elwes, Robin Wright, Mandy Patinkin, Chris Sarandon, Wallace Shawn, André the Giant, and Christopher Guest.
Adapted by William Goldman from his 1973 novel" The Princess Bride", it tells the story of a farmhand named
Westley, accompanied by companions befriended along the way, who must rescue his true love Princess Buttercup from the odious Prince Humperdinck.
The film essentially preserves the novel's narrative style by presenting the story as a book being read by a grandfather( Peter Falk) to his sick grandson( Fred Savage).
The film was first released in the United States on September 25, 1987, and was well- received by critics at the time, but was only a modest box office success.
Over time, particularly with the introduction of the Internet, the film has become a cult classic.
The film is number 50 on the Bravo's" 100 Funniest Movies", number 88 on The American Film Institute's( AFI)" AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Passions" list of the 100 greatest film love stories, and 46 in Channel 4's 50 Greatest Comedy Films list.
In 2016, the film was inducted into the National Film Registry, being deemed as" culturally, historically or aesthetically significant".
I Never Sang for My Father
I Never Sang for My Father is a 1970 American drama film based on a 1968 play of the same name, which tells the story of a widowed college professor who wants to get out from under the thumb of his aging father yet still has regrets about his plan to leave him behind when he remarries and moves to California.
It stars Melvyn Douglas, Gene Hackman, Dorothy Stickney, Estelle Parsons, and Elizabeth Hubbard.
The film was directed and produced by Gilbert Cates, and adapted by Robert Anderson from his 1968 Broadway play.
It was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actor in a Leading Role( Melvyn Douglas), Best Actor in a Supporting Role( Gene Hackman), and Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium( Robert Anderson).
Melvyn Douglas
Melvyn Douglas( born Melvyn Edouard Hesselberg, April 5, 1901 – August 4, 1981) was an American actor.
Douglas came to prominence in the 1930s as a suave leading man, perhaps best typified by his performance in the 1939 romantic comedy" Ninotchka" with Greta Garbo.
Douglas later played mature and fatherly characters, as in his Academy Award – winning performances in" Hud"( 1963) and" Being There"( 1979) and his Academy Award – nominated performance in" I Never Sang for My Father"( 1970).
In the last few years of his life Douglas appeared in films with supernatural stories involving ghosts.
Douglas appeared as" Senator Joseph Carmichael" in" The Changeling" in 1980 and" Ghost Story" in 1981 in his final completed film role.

Question: Are both directors of films The Princess Bride (Film) and I Never Sang For My Father from the same country?
Answer: yes