Brian Johnson (special effects artist)
Brian Johnson( born 1939 or 1940) is a British designer and director of film and television special effects.
The Favor (1994 film)
The Favor is a 1994 romantic comedy film directed by Donald Petrie and written by Sara Parriott and Josann McGibbon.
It stars Harley Jane Kozak, Elizabeth McGovern, Bill Pullman, Brad Pitt and Ken Wahl.
The original music score was composed by Thomas Newman.
John Huston
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."
Peter Levin
Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre.
Eugene Frenke
Eugene Frenke( 1 January 1895- 10 March 1984) was a Russian- born film producer, director and writer.
He twice collaborated with the director John Huston on the films" Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison" and" The Barbarian and the Geisha".
He was married to fellow Ukrainian, actress Anna Sten, from 1932 until his death in 1984.
She appeared in a number of his films.
Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.
Hanro Smitsman
Hanro Smitsman, born in 1967 in Breda( Netherlands), is a writer and director of film and television.
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison is a 1957 DeLuxe Color, a CinemaScope film which tells the story of two people stranded on a Japanese- occupied island in the Pacific Ocean during World War II.
The movie was adapted by John Huston and John Lee Mahin from the novel by Charles Shaw and directed by Huston.
It was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actress in a Leading Role( Deborah Kerr) and Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium.
The movie was filmed on the islands of Trinidad and Tobago.
Producer Eugene Frenke later filmed a low- budget variation on the story," The Nun and the Sergeant"( 1962), starring Frenke's wife Anna Sten.
The Nun and the Sergeant
The Nun and the Sergeant is a 1962 Korean War drama starring Anna Sten and Robert Webber in the title roles.
It was produced by Sten's husband Eugene Frenke, who had produced" Heaven Knows, Mr Allison", also a pairing of a Catholic nun and a U.S. Marine.
It was directed by Franklin Adreon and released through United Artists.
Donald Petrie
Donald Mark Petrie( born April 2, 1954) is an American film director and actor.

Question: Are director of film The Favor (1994 Film) and director of film Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison both from the same country?
Answer: yes