Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.
Peter Levin
Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre.
John Wayne
Marion Mitchell Morrison (born Marion Robert Morrison; May 26, 1907 – June 11, 1979), known professionally as John Wayne and nicknamed Duke, was an American actor, filmmaker, and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient.
He was among the top box office draws for three decades.
Wayne was born in Winterset, Iowa but grew up in Southern California.
He lost a football scholarship to the University of Southern California as a result of a bodysurfing accident, and began working for the Fox Film Corporation.
He appeared mostly in small parts, but his first leading role came in Raoul Walsh's Western "The Big Trail" (1930), an early widescreen film epic which was a box-office failure.
Leading roles followed in numerous during the 1930s, most of them also Westerns, without becoming a major name.
It was John Ford's "Stagecoach" (1939)
that made him a mainstream star, and he starred in 142 motion pictures altogether.
According to one biographer, "John Wayne personified for millions the nation's frontier heritage."
Wayne's other roles in Westerns include a cattleman driving his herd on the Chisholm Trail in "Red River" (1948), a Civil War veteran whose niece is abducted by a tribe of Comanches in "The Searchers" (1956), a troubled rancher competing with a lawyer (James Stewart) for a woman's hand in "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" (1962), and a cantankerous one-eyed marshal in "True Grit" (1969), for which he received the Academy Award for Best Actor.
He is also remembered for his roles in "The Quiet Man" (1952), "Rio Bravo" (1959) with Dean Martin, and "The Longest Day" (1962).
In his final screen performance, he starred as an aging gunfighter battling cancer in "The Shootist" (1976).
He appeared with many important Hollywood stars of his era, and made his last public appearance at the Academy Awards ceremony on April 9, 1979.
José Gregorio Esparza
José Gregorio Esparza( February 25, 1802 – March 6, 1836), also known as Gregorio Esparza, was the last Texan defender to enter the Alamo during the early days of March 1836 in the Siege of the Alamo and was the only one that was not burned in the pyres.
He had brought his family into the Alamo compound along with him.
They were able to survive the battle and were not executed by the conquering army.
William D. Howell
William D. Howell( 1797–1836) was an American surgeon who died as a defender of the Alamo in 1836.
Howell was a doctor who was born in Massachusetts in 1797, but lived in New York before traveling to Texas by way of New Orleans in 1835.
He came to Texas as a member of Capt. Thomas H. Breece's company of New Orleans Greys.
Howell participated in the Siege of Bexar and later served at the Alamo as a member of Capt. William Blazeby's infantry company.
On March 6, 1836 Howell died in the Battle of the Alamo.
The Seventh Company Outdoors
The Seventh Company Outdoors is a 1977 French comedy film directed by Robert Lamoureux.
It is a sequel to Now Where Did the 7th Company Get to ?.
Heroes of the Alamo
Heroes of the Alamo( 1937) is a low- budget retelling of the events of the Texas Revolution and the Battle of the Alamo.
It was produced by Anthony J. Xydias and reuses the battle scenes of his 1926 silent film" Davy Crockett at the Fall of the Alamo".
About 35 minutes of the latter film is available on the DVD of" Heroes of the Alamo", all that remains of the silent film.
The Alamo: Shrine of Texas Liberty
The Alamo: Shrine of Texas Liberty is a 1938 American black- and- white war film directed by Stuart Paton and produced by H. W. Kier and Norman Sheldon.
The film was a two- reel short produced in a couple of weeks San Antonio, Texas.
The film was done in pantomime and audio was done by narration and organ music.
The film starred Coates Gwynne, Sterling Waters and Mrs. Florence Griffith.
The film is an educational reenactment of the siege at the Alamo, but the filming location was actually Mission San José.
The film was released soon after the centennial of the Alamo.
The Alamo (1960 film)
The Alamo is a 1960 American historical epic and war film about the 1836 Battle of the Alamo produced and directed by John Wayne and starring Wayne as Davy Crockett.
The picture also stars Richard Widmark as Jim Bowie and Laurence Harvey as William B. Travis, and the supporting cast features Frankie Avalon, Patrick Wayne, Linda Cristal, Joan O'Brien, Chill Wills, Joseph Calleia, Ken Curtis, Ruben Padilla as Santa Anna, and guest star Richard Boone as Sam Houston.
The motion picture was photographed in 70 mm Todd-AO by William H. Clothier and released by United Artists.
Now Where Did the 7th Company Get to?
Now Where Did the 7th Company Get To? is a 1973 French- Italian comedy war film directed by Robert Lamoureux.
The film portrays the adventures of a French Army squad lost somewhere on the front in May 1940 during the Battle of France.

Question: Where did the director of film The Alamo (1960 Film) study?
Answer: University of Southern California