Sydney Newman
Sydney Cecil Newman, OC( April 1, 1917 – October 30, 1997) was a Canadian film and television producer, who played a pioneering role in British television drama from the late 1950s to the late 1960s.
After his return to Canada in 1970, Newman was appointed Acting Director of the Broadcast Programs Branch for the Canadian Radio and Television Commission( CRTC) and then head of the National Film Board of Canada( NFB).
He also occupied senior positions at the Canadian Film Development Corporation and Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and acted as an advisor to the Secretary of State.
During his time in Britain in the 1950s and 1960s, he worked first with the Associated British Corporation( ABC, now Thames Television), before moving across to the BBC in 1962, holding the role of Head of Drama with both organisations.
During this phase of his career, he was responsible for initiating two hugely popular television programmes, the spy- fi series" The Avengers" and the science- fiction series" Doctor Who," as well as overseeing the production of groundbreaking social realist drama series such as" Armchair Theatre" and" The Wednesday Play."
The Museum of Broadcast Communications describes Newman as" the most significant agent in the development of British television drama."
His obituary in" The Guardian" declared that" For ten brief but glorious years, Sydney Newman ... was the most important impresario in Britain ...
His death marks not just the end of an era but the laying to rest of a whole philosophy of popular art."
In Quebec, as commissioner of the NFB, he attracted controversy for his decision to suppress distribution of several politically sensitive films by French Canadian directors.
Elliot Silverstein
Elliot Silverstein( born August 3, 1927, in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American director, who is best known for being the director of the movie" Cat Ballou"( 1965).
Cocaine (film)
Cocaine is a 1922 British crime film directed by Graham Cutts and starring Hilda Bayley, Flora Le Breton, Ward McAllister and Cyril Raymond.
A melodrama – it depicts the distribution of cocaine by gangsters through a series of London nightclubs and the revenge sought by a man after the death of his daughter.
Because of its depiction of drug use, it was the most controversial British film of the 1920s.
It was feared by the authorities that it might encourage the spread of narcotics.
However, as the film had a clear message about the dangers of using drugs, it was eventually passed by the censors in June 1922 and released in some cinemas under the alternative title While London Sleeps.
The Chinese gangster Min Fu was reportedly based on a real- life criminal Brilliant Chang.
Scotty Fox
Scott Fox is a pornographic film director who is a member of the AVN Hall of Fame.
Howard Bretherton
Howard Bretherton( 13 February 1890, Tacoma, Washington – 12 April 1969, San Diego, California) was an American film director, film editor, and the father of film editor David Bretherton.
Ben Palmer
Ben Palmer is a British film and television director who is known for being the director of" Bo' Selecta" and" The Inbetweeners".
Menace (1934 British film)
Menace is a 1934 British crime film directed by Adrian Brunel and starring Victor Varconi, Joan Maude and D. A. Clarke- Smith.
The film was made at Shepperton Studios by the Sound City production company.
It was also known by the alternative title When London Sleeps.
Dan Milne
Dan Milne is a British actor/ director who is possibly best known for his role in" EastEnders".
While London Sleeps
While London Sleeps is a 1926 Warner Bros. film about a police-dog, Rinty, who helps Scotland Yard defeat a dangerous criminal organisation known as the Mediterranean Brotherhood that operates out of the Limehouse district of London.
Walter Morosco wrote the screenplay.
It was the first of many films directed by Howard Bretherton, and one of several created for Rin Tin Tin, a German Shepherd dog used in films during the 1920s and 1930s.
The film was also released with a Vitaphone sound-on-disc soundtrack with a music score and sound effects, and only the sound discs survive today.
The British release prints censored the more horrific aspects of the film.
George Kotsonaros only appeared in two horror films, this one and "The Wizard" (1927), and he played a beast-man in both movies.
He died in a car accident in Alabama in 1933.
Train Busters
Train Busters( aka R.C.A.F. Train- Busters; its alternate French language version was known as La guerre des airs) is a 13- minute 1943 Canadian documentary film, directed by Sydney Newman.
The film was made by the Royal Canadian Air Force( RCAF) Overseas Film Unit and the National Film Board of Canada( NFB) as part of the NFB's" Canada Carries On" series.
" Train Busters" depicts the Allied night bombing campaign over occupied Europe that was complemented by close air support missions flown by the RCAF targeting enemy trains.

Question: Which film has the director who is older, Train Busters or While London Sleeps?
Answer: While London Sleeps