Donald D. Lorenzen
Donald D. Lorenzen, or Don Lorenzen,( 1920 – 80) was a San Fernando Valley funeral director who was a member of the Los Angeles City Council from 1969 to 1977.
Don't Bother to Knock (1961 film)
Do n't Bother to Knock
( US: Why Bother to Knock) is a 1961 CinemaScope British comedy film directed by Cyril Frankel and co-produced by and starring Richard Todd.
Also starring with Todd were Nicole Maurey, Elke Sommer and John Le Mesurier.
Don't Bother to Knock
Do n't Bother to Knock is a 1952 American film noir thriller starring Richard Widmark and Marilyn Monroe and directed by Roy Ward Baker.
The screenplay was written by Daniel Taradash, based on the novel" Mischief" by Charlotte Armstrong, published in 1951.
Monroe is featured as a disturbed babysitter watching a child at the same New York hotel where a pilot, played by Widmark, is staying.
Her strange behavior makes him increasingly aware that she is the last person with whom the parents should have entrusted their daughter.
Wale Adebanwi
Wale Adebanwi( born 1969) is a Nigerian- born first Black Rhodes Professor at St Antony's College, Oxford.
Samuel Fuller
Samuel Michael Fuller( August 12, 1912 – October 30, 1997) was an American screenwriter, novelist, and film director known for low- budget, understated genre movies with controversial themes, often made outside the conventional studio system.
Fuller wrote his first screenplay for" Hats Off" in 1936, and made his directorial debut with the Western" I Shot Jesse James"( 1949).
He would continue to direct several other Westerns and war thrillers throughout the 1950s.
Fuller shifted from Westerns and war thrillers in the 1960s with his low- budget thriller" Shock Corridor" in 1963, followed by the neo-noir" The Naked Kiss"( 1964).
He was inactive in filmmaking for most of the 1970s, before writing and directing the war epic" The Big Red One"( 1980), and the experimental" White Dog"( 1982), whose screenplay he co-wrote with Curtis Hanson.
Verboten!
Verboten! is a 1959 film written, produced and directed by Samuel Fuller and starring James Best, Susan Cummings, Tom Pittman, and Harold Daye.
It was the last film of the influential but troubled RKO Pictures studio, which co-produced it with Fuller's own Globe Enterprises.
It was filmed at the RKO Forty Acres backlot.
Distribution was handled by Columbia Pictures.
" Verboten!" was the first of Samuel Fuller's films to be set during World War II, of which he was a veteran.
He had previously drawn on his war experience to make movies about the Korean War and the French Indochina War.
Raymond Harvey was the film's technical adviser; he had previously worked with Fuller on his" Fixed Bayonets!"( 1951).
Daniel Taradash
Daniel Taradash( January 29, 1913 – February 22, 2003) was an American screenwriter.
Taradash's credits include" Golden Boy"( 1939)," From Here to Eternity"( 1952)," Rancho Notorious"( 1952)," Do n't Bother to Knock"( 1952)," Désirée"( 1954)," Picnic"( 1955)," Storm Center"( 1956), which he also directed," Bell, Book and Candle"( 1958)," Morituri"( 1965)," Hawaii"( 1966)," Castle Keep"( 1969)," Doctors' Wives"( 1971), and" Bogie"( 1980), a film biography of Humphrey Bogart.
Roy Ward Baker
Roy Ward Baker( 19 December 1916 – 5 October 2010), born Roy Horace Baker, was an English film director, credited as Roy Baker for much of his career.
His best known film is" A Night to Remember"( 1958) which won a Golden Globe for Best English- Language Foreign Film in 1959.
His later career included many horror films and television shows.
Michael Shepley
Arthur Michael Shepley- Smith( 29 September 1907 – 28 September 1961), known professionally as Michael Shepley, was a British actor, appearing in theatre, film and some television between 1929 and 1961.
He was born in Plymouth, Devon.
Shepley made his screen début in the 1931 Twickenham Studios film" Black Coffee".
He went on to appear in more than sixty films, the last of which was" Do n't Bother to Knock" in 1961, the year of his death.
Henry Moore (cricketer)
Henry Walter Moore( 1849 – 20 August 1916) was an English- born first- class cricketer who spent most of his life in New Zealand.

Question: Which film has the director who was born first, Verboten! or Don'T Bother To Knock?
Answer: Verboten!