The Fight Continues
The Fight Continues( Swedish: Striden går vidare) is a 1941 Swedish drama film directed by Gustaf Molander and starring Victor Sjöström, Renée Björling and Anne- Margrethe Björlin.
The film's art direction was by Arne Åkermark.
Bringing Out the Dead
Bringing Out the Dead is a 1999 American drama film directed by Martin Scorsese, written by Paul Schrader, based on the novel about a paramedic by Joe Connelly and starring Nicolas Cage, Patricia Arquette, John Goodman, Ving Rhames, and Tom Sizemore.
It was also the final LaserDisc released in North America, being released on October 3, 2000.
Wale Adebanwi
Wale Adebanwi( born 1969) is a Nigerian- born first Black Rhodes Professor at St Antony's College, Oxford.
Hartley Lobban
Hartley W Lobban (9 May 1926 – 15 October 2004) was a Jamaican-born first-class cricketer who played 17 matches for Worcestershire in the early 1950s.
Joe Connelly (writer)
Joe Connelly is an American writer.
Connelly is best known for his first novel," Bringing Out the Dead", which was made into an eponymous film.
Claude Weisz
Claude Weisz is a French film director born in Paris.
John McMahon (Surrey and Somerset cricketer)
John William Joseph McMahon( 28 December 1917 – 8 May 2001) was an Australian- born first- class cricketer who played for Surrey and Somerset in England from 1947 to 1957.
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.
Martin Scorsese
Martin Charles Scorsese( born November 17, 1942) is an American filmmaker and actor, whose career spans more than 50 years.
Part of the New Hollywood wave of filmmaking, he is widely regarded as one of the most significant and influential filmmakers in cinematic history.
Scorsese's body of work explores such themes as Italian- American identity, Catholic concepts of guilt and redemption, faith, machismo, modern crime, and gang conflict.
Many of his films are also known for their depiction of violence and liberal use of profanity.
In 1990, he founded The Film Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to film preservation, and in 2007 he founded the World Cinema Foundation.
He is a recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award for his contributions to the cinema, and has won an Academy Award, a Palme d' Or, Cannes Film Festival Best Director Award, Silver Lion, Grammy Award, Emmys, Golden Globes, BAFTAs, and Directors Guild of America Awards.
He has directed works such as the crime film" Mean Streets"( 1973), the vigilante- thriller" Taxi Driver"( 1976), the biographical sports drama" Raging Bull"( 1980), the black comedies" The King of Comedy"( 1983) and" After Hours"( 1985), the religious epic" The Last Temptation of Christ"( 1988), the crime film" Goodfellas"( 1990), the psychological thriller" Cape Fear"( 1991), the historical romantic drama" The Age of Innocence"( 1993) and the crime epics" Casino"( 1995) and" The Irishman"( 2019), most of which he collaborated on with actor and close friend Robert De Niro.
Scorsese has also been noted for his successful collaborations with actor Leonardo DiCaprio, having directed him in five films, beginning with" Gangs of New York"( 2002) and most recently" The Wolf of Wall Street"( 2013).
Their third film together," The Departed"( 2006), won Scorsese the Academy Award for Best Director in addition to the film winning the award for Best Picture.
Scorsese's other film work includes the biographical drama" The Aviator"( 2004), the psychological thriller" Shutter Island"( 2010), the historical adventure drama" Hugo"( 2011), and the religious epic" Silence"( 2016).
His work in television includes the pilot episodes of the HBO series" Boardwalk Empire" and" Vinyl", the latter of which he also co-created.
With eight Best Director Oscar nominations, he is the most -nominated living director and is tied with Billy Wilder for the second- most nominations overall.
As a fan of rock music, he has directed several documentaries on the subject, including" The Last Waltz"( 1978)," No Direction Home"( 2005)," Shine a Light"( 2008),( 2011), and( 2019).
Gustaf Molander
Gustaf Harald August Molander( 18 November 1888 – 19 June 1973) was a Swedish actor and film director.
His parents were director Harald Molander, Sr.( 1858–1900) and singer and actress Lydia Molander," née" Wessler, and his brother was director Olof Molander( 1892 – 1966).
He was the father of director and producer Harald Molander from his first marriage to actress Karin Molander and father to actor Jan Molander from his second marriage to Elsa Fahlberg( 1892- 1977).
Gustaf Molander was born in Helsingfors( now Helsinki) in the Grand Duchy of Finland( in the Russian Empire), where his father was working at the Swedish Theatre.
He studied in the school of the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm 1907 – 1909, acted at the Swedish theatre in Helsingfors 1909 – 1913, and then at the Royal Dramatic Theatre from 1913 – 1926.
The last years there he headed the school; his students included Greta Garbo.
Molander wrote several screenplays for Victor Sjöström and Mauritz Stiller, and was helped by the latter to get employment as a director for Svensk Filmindustri, where he worked 1923 – 1956.
All in all, he directed sixty- two films.
He often worked with Gösta Ekman, and his films include" Intermezzo"( 1936), which became Ingrid Bergman's breakthrough and paved her way to America, where she starred in the 1939 Hollywood remake of the film.

Question: Which film has the director born first, The Fight Continues or Bringing Out The Dead?
Answer: The Fight Continues