Gary Fleder
Gary Fleder( born December 19, 1965) is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer.
His most recently completed film," Homefront," was released by Open Road Films and Millennium Films in November 2013.
In recent years he has been a prolific director of television pilots.
John Sturges
John Eliot Sturges( January 3, 1910 – August 18, 1992) was an American film director.
His movies include" Bad Day at Black Rock"( 1955)," Gunfight at the O.K. Corral"( 1957)," The Magnificent Seven"( 1960)," The Great Escape"( 1963), and" Ice Station Zebra"( 1968).
In 2013," The Magnificent Seven" was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being" culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
He was not related to director Preston Sturges.
Mystery Street
Mystery Street is a 1950 black- and- white film noir directed by John Sturges with cinematography by cinematographer John Alton.
The film features Ricardo Montalban, Sally Forrest, Bruce Bennett, Elsa Lanchester, and Marshall Thompson.
The MGM film was shot on location in Boston and Cape Cod; according to one critic, it was" the first commercial feature to be predominantly shot" on location in Boston.
Also featured are Harvard Medical School in Roxbury, Massachusetts and Harvard University in nearby Cambridge.
The film's story earned Leonard Spigelgass a nomination as Best Story for the 23rd Academy Awards.
John Brown (offensive tackle)
John C. Brown( born June 9, 1939) is a former American football tackle who played ten seasons for two National Football League( NFL) teams, the Cleveland Browns and the Pittsburgh Steelers.
He played tackle at Syracuse University alongside Ernie Davis.
Brown played high school football at Camden High School in his hometown.
In the 2008 movie The Express, Ernie's best friend and roommate is Jack Buckley( Omar Benson Miller), a huge lineman who's called" JB".
The character is based on Brown.
Leonard Spigelgass
Leonard Spigelgass( November 26, 1908 – February 15, 1985) was an American film producer and screenwriter.
During his career, Spigelgass wrote the scripts for 11 Academy Award- winning films.
He himself was nominated in 1950 for the story for" Mystery Street" and garnered three Writers Guild of America nominations over the course of his career.
Stevie Baggs
Stevie Baggs( born December 30, 1981) is an Actor, inspirational speaker, author of book Greater Than The Game and American former gridiron football linebacker.
He most recently played for the Calgary Stampeders of the Canadian Football League( CFL).
He played college football at Bethune- Cookman University, where he was a three- time All- American and Mel Blount SBN Defensive Player of the Year not to mention the winner of the Ernie Davis award.
Baggs has also played for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, Edmonton Eskimos, Saskatchewan Roughriders, and Hamilton Tiger- Cats.
The Express: The Ernie Davis Story
The Express: The Ernie Davis Story is a 2008 American sports film produced by John Davis and directed by Gary Fleder.
The storyline was conceived from a screenplay written by Charles Leavitt from a book titled" Ernie Davis: The Elmira Express", authored by Robert C. Gallagher.
The film is based on the life of Syracuse University football player Ernie Davis, the first African American to win the Heisman Trophy, portrayed by actor Rob Brown.
" The Express" explores civil rights topics, such as racism, discrimination and athletics.
The film was a co-production between the film studios of Relativity Media and Davis Entertainment.
It was commercially distributed by Universal Pictures theatrically, and by Universal Studios Home Entertainment for home media.
Dennis Quaid and Charles S. Dutton star in principal supporting roles.
The original motion picture soundtrack with a musical score composed by Mark Isham, was released by the Lakeshore Records label on October 28, 2008.
" The Express" premiered in theaters nationwide in the United States on October 10, 2008.
Despite receiving generally positive reviews from critics, the film was a box office bomb, grossing just$ 9.8 million against its$ 40 million budget.
The Blu- ray version of the film, featuring deleted scenes and the director's commentary was released on January 20, 2009.
The Ernie Game
The Ernie Game is a 1967 Canadian drama film directed by Don Owen.
Called" One of the most innovative examples of personal cinema to come from English Canada in the Sixties" by the Cinematheque Ontario," The Ernie Game" was part of a proposed trio of works intended to celebrate the Canadian Centennial.
The film centres on Ernie Turner and his attempts to survive in the world after he's released from an asylum.
He grows increasingly alienated and his fragile mental state declines, moving between two women, ex-girlfriend and current lover.
The Ernie Game" provides a resonant portrait of mental illness," writes Steve Gravestock of the Cinematheque," its pathologically narcissistic protagonist representing Owen ’s most nightmarish vision of the artist as fraud and pariah."
Produced by the National Film Board of Canada," The Ernie Game" received the Etrog Awards, now known as Genie Awards, for Best Direction and Best Feature Film in 1968.
It was also entered into the 18th Berlin International Film Festival and the Chicago International Film Festival
John Morris (actor)
John Charles Morris( born October 2, 1984) is an American voice actor.
He is best known for his role as the voice of Andy Davis in the" Toy Story" films.
Edward O. Phillips
Edward O. Phillips( born November 26, 1931) is a Canadian novelist, who has written both mystery novels and mainstream literary fiction.
He is best known for his mystery novel series featuring gay detective Geoffrey Chadwick.

Question: Do both Mystery Street and The Express: The Ernie Davis Story films have the directors from the same country?
Answer: yes