Howard W. Koch
Howard Winchel Koch( April 11, 1916 – February 16, 2001) was an American producer and director of film and television.
Kirk Douglas
Kirk Douglas( born Issur Danielovitch; December 9, 1916) is an American actor, producer, director and author.
A centenarian, he is one of the last surviving stars of the film industry's Golden Age.
After an impoverished childhood with immigrant parents and six sisters, he made his film debut in" The Strange Love of Martha Ivers"( 1946) with Barbara Stanwyck and Lizabeth Scott.
Douglas soon developed into a leading box- office star throughout the 1950s, known for serious dramas, including westerns and war movies.
During his career, he appeared in more than 90 movies.
Douglas is known for his explosive acting style, which he displayed as a criminal defense attorney in" Town Without Pity"( 1961).
Douglas became an international star through positive reception for his leading role as an unscrupulous boxing hero in" Champion"( 1949), which brought him his first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor.
Other early films include" Young Man with a Horn"( 1950), playing opposite Lauren Bacall and Doris Day," Ace in the Hole" opposite Jan Sterling( 1951), and" Detective Story"( 1951), for which he received a Golden Globe nomination as Best Actor in a Drama.
He received a second Oscar nomination for his dramatic role in" The Bad and the Beautiful"( 1952), opposite Lana Turner, and his third nomination for portraying Vincent van Gogh in" Lust for Life"( 1956), which landed him a second Golden Globe nomination.
In 1955, he established Bryna Productions, which began producing films as varied as" Paths of Glory"( 1957) and" Spartacus"( 1960).
In those two films he collaborated with the then- relatively- unknown director Stanley Kubrick, taking lead roles in both films.
Douglas has been praised for helping to break the Hollywood blacklist by having Dalton Trumbo write" Spartacus" with an official on- screen credit.
He produced and starred in" Lonely Are the Brave"( 1962), considered a classic, and" Seven Days in May"( 1964), opposite Burt Lancaster, with whom he made seven films.
In 1963, he starred in the Broadway play" One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", a story that he purchased and later gave to his son Michael Douglas, who turned it into an Oscar- winning film.
As an actor and philanthropist, Douglas has received three Academy Award nominations, an Oscar for Lifetime Achievement, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
As an author, he has written ten novels and memoirs.
He is No. 17 on the American Film Institute's list of the greatest male screen legends of classic Hollywood cinema, the highest- ranked living person on the list.
After barely surviving a helicopter crash in 1991 and then suffering a stroke in 1996, he has focused on renewing his spiritual and religious life.
He lives with his second wife( of years), Anne Buydens, a producer.
Brian Johnson (special effects artist)
Brian Johnson( born 1939 or 1940) is a British designer and director of film and television special effects.
House of the Black Death
House of the Black Death is a 1965 American horror film directed by Harold Daniels, Reginald LeBorg and Jerry Warren.
The film was written by Richard Mahoney, based on a novel titled" The Widderburn Horror" by Lora Crozetti.
The film is about two elderly brothers who are warlocks, Belial( Lon Chaney Jr.) and Andre( John Carradine), who have been feuding with each other for years over the family estate.
Belial, who sports small goat's horns on his forehead, has been using his black magic to bewitch members of the family, while Andre spends the entire film bedridden.
The two actors did not share any scenes in the film.
Jerry Warren
Jerry Warren( March 10, 1925 – August 21, 1988) was an American film director, producer, editor, screenwriter, cinematographer, and actor.
Warren grew up wanting to get into the film business in Los Angeles, California.
He appeared in small parts in a few 1940s films such as" Ghost CatchersAnchors Aweigh", and" Unconquered".
After meeting with producers, Warren took on his first film as a director and producer with" Man Beast" in 1956.
He initially created his own films, although relying heavily on stock footage.
Later, he would just buy foreign films that already existed and re-edit them, dubbing some scenes in English and inserting new footage which he shot with American actors such as John Carradine and Katherine Victor.
Warren even wrote some screenplays for his films under the" nom de plumeJacques Lecoutier", which he sometimes misspelled in the credits.
Posse (1975 film)
Posse is a 1975 Technicolor American revisionist Western Panavision film, produced by, directed by and starring Kirk Douglas.
The screenplay was written by Christopher Knopf and William Roberts.
The plot centers on a U.S. marshal with political ambitions leading an elite posse in pursuit of a notorious bank robber to further his political career.
The film premiered in New York City on June 4, 1975, and in June the same year in Berlin at the 25th Berlin International Film Festival, where Douglas was nominated for the Golden Bear.
Rachel Feldman
Rachel Feldman( born August 22, 1954) is an American director of film and television and screenwriter of television films.
Hanro Smitsman
Hanro Smitsman, born in 1967 in Breda( Netherlands), is a writer and director of film and television.
Peter Levin
Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre.
Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.

Question: Are director of film Posse (1975 Film) and director of film House Of The Black Death from the same country?
Answer: yes