Charles Koerner
Charles Koerner( September 10, 1896 – February 2, 1946) was an American film executive, best known for being executive vice president over production at RKO Pictures from 1942 to 1946.
Koerner is best remembered today for firing Orson Welles from RKO.
However he was a highly successful executive, helping RKO turn around its financial performance from the George Schaefer regime.
Magic Trick (film)
Magic Trick is a short film made in 1953 by Orson Welles, for use in a show by magician Richard Himber.
It involves Welles on-screen interacting with Himber off-screen as the two play a card trick, and would have been projected life-size (in black and white) during Himber's touring stage show in the 1950s.
It was the first time Welles had filmed any magic tricks since his segment in the 1944 film "Follow the Boys" (which in turn used tricks Welles originally staged in the 1943 "The Mercury Wonder Show"); and from the late 1960s onwards, Welles would perform more of these tricks in public, most notably in "The Orson Welles Show" (1979) and "Orson Welles' Magic Show" (1976-85).
Lord and Lady Algy (film)
Lord and Lady Algy is a lost 1919 American silent comedy film directed by Harry Beaumont and starring Tom Moore, Naomi Childers, and Frank Leigh.
It is based on a play of the same name by R.C. Carton.
The film's sets were designed by the art director Hugo Ballin.
Harry Beaumont
Harry Beaumont( February 10, 1888 – December 22, 1966) was an American film director, actor, and screenwriter.
He worked for a variety of production companies including Fox, Goldwyn, Metro, Warner Brothers, and Metro- Goldwyn- Mayer.
Christian McKay
Christian Stuart McKay( born 30 December 1973) is an English stage and screen actor.
He is perhaps best known for his portrayal of Orson Welles in the 2008 film" Me and Orson Welles", for which he was nominated for over two dozen awards including the BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor.
He also appeared in movies such as" Florence Foster Jenkins The Theory of EverythingTinker Tailor Soldier Spy" and" Rush".
The Tartars
The Tartars/ I Tartari is a 1961 Italian/ Yugoslavian international co-production Technicolor film directed by Richard Thorpe and starring Victor Mature and Orson Welles.
Richard France (writer)
Richard France( born May 5, 1938) is an American playwright, author, and film and drama critic.
He is a recognized authority on the stage work of American filmmaker Orson Welles.
His publication," The Theatre of Orson Welles", which received a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book Award in 1979, has been called" a landmark study" and has been translated into Japanese.
His 1990 companion volume," Orson Welles on Shakespeare" has been praised by Welles critics and biographers.
Richard Linklater
Richard Stuart Linklater( born July 30, 1960) is an American filmmaker.
Linklater is known for his realistic and natural humanist films, which revolve mainly around suburban culture and the effects of the passage of time.
His films include the observational comedy film" Slacker"( 1990); the coming- of- age comedy film" Dazed and Confused"( 1993); the romantic drama" Before" trilogy," Before Sunrise"( 1995)," Before Sunset"( 2004), and" Before Midnight"( 2013); the music- themed comedy" School of Rock"( 2003); the animated films" Waking Life"( 2001) and" A Scanner Darkly"( 2006); the epic coming- of age drama" Boyhood"( 2014); and the comedy film" Everybody Wants Some!!"( 2016).
In 2015, Linklater was included on the annual" Time 100" list of the 100 most influential people in the world.
Linklater is known to have a distinct style and method of filmmaking.
Many of his films are noted for their loosely structured narrative; several of his projects — the" Before ..." films and" Boyhood" — feature the same actors filmed over an extended period of years.
Robert Kaplow
Robert Kaplow( born c. 1954) is an American novelist and teacher whose coming- of- age novel was made into a film titled" Me and Orson Welles".
The story is about" youthful creative ambition" and has received positive reviews from" The New York Times" which described it as" nimble, likable and smart."
Kaplow has written nine books and used to teach English language and film studies at Summit High School in New Jersey.
Me and Orson Welles
Me and Orson Welles is a 2008 British- American period drama film directed by Richard Linklater and starring Zac Efron, Christian McKay, and Claire Danes.
Based on Robert Kaplow's novel of the same name, the story, set in 1937 New York, tells of a teenager hired to perform in Orson Welles's groundbreaking stage adaptation of William Shakespeare's" Julius Caesar".
He becomes attracted to a career- driven production assistant.
The film was shot in London and New York and on the Isle of Man in February, March and April 2008, and was released in the United States on November 25, 2009, and the United Kingdom on December 4, 2009.
McKay's portrayal of Welles was recognized with a multitude of accolades, and" Me and Orson Welles" was named one of the top ten independent films of the year by the National Board of Review.

Question: Are the directors of both films Lord And Lady Algy (Film) and Me And Orson Welles from the same country?
Answer: yes