Cannonball (film)
Cannonball( stylized on- screen as Cannonball!) is a 1976 American comedy film directed by Paul Bartel and starring David Carradine.
The film is one of two released in 1976( the other being" The Gumball Rally") that were based on a real illegal cross-continent road race that took place for a number of years in the United States.
The same topic later became the basis for the films" The Cannonball RunCannonball Run II" and" Speed Zone".
The film was written and directed by Paul Bartel, who also directed" Death Race 2000".
The name of the film and the plot were inspired by Erwin G." Cannon Ball" Baker( 1882 – 1960), who traveled across the United States several times, and by the Cannonball Baker Sea- To- Shining- Sea Memorial Trophy Dash, an illegal cross-continent road race introduced by Brock Yates to protest against the 55 MPH speed limit.
Ron Howard
Ronald William Howard( born March 1, 1954) is an American filmmaker and actor.
Howard first came to prominence as a child actor, guest- starring in several television series, including an episode of" The Twilight Zone".
He gained national attention for playing young Opie Taylor, the son of Sheriff Andy Taylor( played by Andy Griffith) in the sitcom" The Andy Griffith Show" from 1960 through 1968.
During this time, he also appeared in the musical film" The Music Man"( 1962), a critical and commercial success.
Howard was cast in one of the lead roles in the coming- of- age film" American Graffiti"( 1973), which received widespread acclaim and became one of the most profitable films of all time.
The following year, Howard became a household name for playing Richie Cunningham in the sitcom" Happy Days", a role he would play from 1974 through 1980.
Howard continued appearing in films during this time, such as the western film" The Shootist"( 1976) and the comedy film" Grand Theft Auto"( 1977), which also marked his directorial debut.
In 1980, Howard left" Happy Days" to focus on directing.
His films include the science- fiction/ fantasy" Cocoon"( 1985), the fantasy" Willow"( 1988), the thriller" Backdraft"( 1991), the historical docudrama" Apollo 13"( 1995), the Christmas comedy" How the Grinch Stole Christmas", the biographical drama" A Beautiful Mind"( 2001), the biographical sports drama" Cinderella Man"( 2005), the thriller" The Da Vinci Code"( 2006), the historical drama" Frost/ Nixon"( 2008),( 2018), and the documentary" Pavarotti"( 2019).
For" A Beautiful Mind", Howard won the Academy Award for Best Director and Academy Award for Best Picture.
In 2003, Howard was awarded the National Medal of Arts.
Asteroid
12561 Howard is named after him.
He was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame in 2013.
Howard has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions in the television and motion pictures industries.
Gung Ho (film)
Gung Ho( released in Australia as Working Class Man) is a 1986 American comedy film directed by Ron Howard and starring Michael Keaton.
The story portrayed the takeover of an American car plant by a Japanese corporation( although the title is an Americanized Chinese expression, for" work" and" together").
Most of the movie was filmed on location in the Pittsburgh area with additional scenes shot in Tokyo and Argentina.
Jihmi Kennedy
Jihmi Kennedy( born November 1956) is an American actor who is best known for his roles in" Glory" and" Gung Ho".
After co-starring in several notable films during the 1980s, he quit acting and worked as a teacher in North Carolina for most of the 1990s.
He returned to acting in 2001.
Clean and Sober
Clean and Sober is a 1988 American drama film directed by Glenn Gordon Caron and starring Michael Keaton as a real estate agent struggling with a substance abuse problem.
This film served as Keaton's second dramatic departure from comedies, after" Touch and Go".
The supporting cast includes Kathy Baker, M. Emmet Walsh, Morgan Freeman, Luca Bercovici and Tate Donovan.
Ron Howard, who previously directed Keaton in the comedies" Night Shift"( 1982) and" Gung Ho"( 1986), served as co-producer.
Paul Bartel
Paul Bartel( August 6, 1938 – May 13, 2000) was an American actor, writer and director.
Bartel was perhaps most known for his 1982 hit black comedy" Eating Raoul", which he wrote, starred in and directed.
Bartel appeared in over 90 movies and TV episodes, including such titles as" Eat My Dust"( 1976)," Hollywood Boulevard"( 1976)," Rock' n' Roll High School"( 1979)," Get Crazy"( 1983) and" Amazon Women on the Moon"( 1987).
He frequently co-starred with friend and former Warhol girl Mary Woronov; the pair appeared in 17 films together, often as husband and wife.
Bartel also directed 11 low- budget films, many of which he also acted in or wrote.
He started in 1968 with the short" The Secret Cinema", a paranoid delusional fantasy of self- referential cinema.
He graduated to features in 1972 with the horror- comedy" Private Parts".
He would go on to direct such cult films as" Death Race 2000"( 1975)," Eating Raoul"( 1982)," Lust in the Dust"( 1985) and" Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills"( 1989).
Edwin Blum
Edwin Harvey Blum( 2 August 1906 – 2 May 1995) was an American screenwriter.
He was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey and died in Santa Monica, California.
Films written by Blum include" Stalag 17 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" and" Gung Ho".
I Want Your Love (film)
I Want Your
Love is the title of both a 2010 short film and a 2012 feature- length film.
Both films were directed and written by Travis Mathews.
The drama films both revolve around the friends and ex-lovers of Jesse Metzger, a gay man in his mid-thirties who is forced to move back to his hometown from San Francisco due to financial reasons.
The actors' own names, along with much of their real- life stories, were used for their characters in both films, which features graphic sexual scenes.
The production of both films was aided by the gay pornographic studio NakedSword.
This led to the full- length film being refused exemption from classification, which would have allowed it to screen at the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a decision to which actor James Franco( who invited Mathews to collaborate on Franco's film" Interior. Leather Bar.") reacted negatively.
Rodney Kageyama
Rodney Masao Kageyama (November 1, 1941 – December 9, 2018) was an American stage, film and TV actor.
He was a Nisei Japanese American (second-generation) and besides acting in Asian American theater groups, he was also a director and designer.
With his roles in the “Gung Ho” film and television series and the “Karate Kid” franchise, he was a trailblazer for Asian Americans in Hollywood.
Gung Ho!
Gung Ho!( full title: Gung Ho!: The Story of Carlson's Makin Island Raiders) is a 1943 American war film directed by Ray Enright and starring Randolph Scott.
The story is based somewhat on the real- life World War II Makin Island raid led by Lieutenant Colonel Evans Carlson's 2nd Marine Raider Battalion.

Question: Are the directors of both films Cannonball (Film) and Gung Ho (Film) from the same country?
Answer: yes