The Golden Cocoon
The Golden Cocoon is a 1925 American drama film directed by Millard Webb and written by Louis D. Lighton and Hope Loring.
It is based on the 1924 novel" The Golden Cocoon" by Ruth Cross.
The film stars Huntley Gordon, Helene Chadwick, Richard Tucker, Frank Campeau, Margaret Seddon and Carrie Clark Ward.
The film was released by Warner Bros. on January 30, 1926.
Friends of Mr. Sweeney
Friends of Mr. Sweeney is a 1934 American comedy film directed by Edward Ludwig and written by Warren B. Duff, Sid Sutherland, F. Hugh Herbert and Erwin S. Gelsey.
It is based on the 1925 novel" Friends of Mr. Sweeney" by Elmer Davis.
The film stars Charlie Ruggles, Ann Dvorak, Eugene Pallette, Robert Barrat, Berton Churchill and Dorothy Burgess.
The film was released by Warner Bros. on July 28, 1934.
Yolonda Ross
Yolonda Ross is an American character actress, writer and director born (31 July 1974).
Claude Weisz
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Sepideh Farsi
Sepideh Farsi is an Iranian film director, born in Tehran in 1965.
Joshua Sinclair
Joshua Sinclair( born May 7, 1953) is an American writer, producer, actor and director born in New York City.
Jacques Décombe
Jacques Décombe is a French author, actor and director born in 1953.
Millard Webb
Millard Webb( 6 December 1893 – 21 April 1935), was an American screenwriter and director.
He directed 20 films between 1920 and 1933.
His best- known film is the 1926 silent John Barrymore adventure" The Sea Beast", a version of" Moby Dick", costarring Dolores Costello.
Webb also directed the early sound Florenz Ziegfeld produced talkie" Glorifying the American Girl" released by Paramount in 1929.
In 1927 he directed" Naughty But Nice", produced by John McCormick and First National Pictures.
His active years were from 1916 to 1933.
He was married to Lydia Stocking( 1918 –1923).
Mary Eaton married Webb in 1929, but they separated.
He was born in Clay City, Kentucky, U.S., and died in Los Angeles, California of intestinal ailment at the age of 40.
Fred Roy Krug
Fred R. Krug is an American film and television producer- director born in Bern, Switzerland.
Edward Ludwig
Edward Irving Ludwig( October 7, 1899 – August 20, 1982) was a Russian- born American film director and writer.
He directed nearly 100 films between 1921 and 1963( some under the names Edward I. Luddy and Charles Fuhr).
Ludwig was also one of the directors of John Payne's NBC western series" The Restless Gun"( 1957- 1959).
Ludwig and Erle C. Kenton were the principal directors of the CBS television series," The Texan"( 1958- 1960), starring Rory Calhoun as a" Robin Hood of the West" who drifts through the region helping persons in need.
" The Texan" in its first season ran opposite" The Restless Gun" in its second and last season.
Ludwig was born in the Ukraine, then part od the Russian Empire, entered the United States from Canada on March 6, 1911, became a naturalized citizen December 23, 1932, and died in Santa Monica, California.

Question: Which film has the director born earlier, The Golden Cocoon or Friends of Mr. Sweeney?
Answer: The Golden Cocoon