Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder( born Samuel Wilder, June 22, 1906 – March 27, 2002) was an Austrian- born American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, artist, and journalist whose career spanned more than five decades.
He is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile filmmakers of the Hollywood Golden Age of cinema.
With" The Apartment", Wilder became the first person to win Academy Awards as producer, director, and screenwriter for the same film.
Wilder became a screenwriter in the late 1920s while living in Berlin.
After the rise of the Nazi Party, he left for Paris, where he made his directorial debut.
He moved to Hollywood in 1933, and in 1939 he had a hit when he co-wrote the screenplay for the romantic comedy" Ninotchka", starring Greta Garbo.
Wilder established his directorial reputation with an adaption of James M. Cain's" Double Indemnity"( 1944), a film noir.
Wilder co-wrote the screenplay with crime novelist Raymond Chandler.
Wilder earned the Best Director and Best Screenplay Academy Awards for the adaptation of a Charles R. Jackson story" The Lost Weekend"( 1945), about alcoholism.
In 1950, Wilder co-wrote and directed the critically acclaimed" Sunset Boulevard", as well as" Stalag 17" in 1953.
From the mid-1950s on, Wilder made mostly comedies.
Among the classics Wilder created in this period are the farces" The Seven Year Itch"( 1955) and" Some Like It Hot"( 1959), and satires such as" The Apartment"( 1960).
He directed fourteen different actors in Oscar- nominated performances.
Wilder was recognized with the American Film Institute( AFI) Life Achievement Award in 1986.
In 1988, Wilder was awarded the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award.
In 1993, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts.
Long Days of Vengeance
Long Days of Vengeance( is a 1967 Western film directed by Florestano Vancini.
It is the only western directed by Vancini, here credited as Stan Vance.
The film is a spaghetti western version of Alexandre Dumas' novel" The Count of Monte Cristo".
Fists of Vengeance
The Fists of Vengeance is a 1972 Hong Kong film.
It was produced under the Shaw Studios banner.
Florestano Vancini
Florestano Vancini( Ferrara, 24 August 1926- Rome, 18 September 2008) was an Italian film director and screenwriter.
He directed over 20 films since 1960.
His 1966 film" Le stagioni del nostro amore", starring Enrico Maria Salerno, was entered into the 16th Berlin International Film Festival.
His 1973 film" The Assassination of Matteotti" was entered into the 8th Moscow International Film Festival where it won a Special Prize.
In 1999 he was a member of the jury at the 21st Moscow International Film Festival.
Riders of Vengeance
Riders of Vengeance is a 1919 American Western film directed by John Ford and featuring Harry Carey.
The film is considered to be lost.
Long Days of Hate
Long Days of Hate( Italian: I lunghi giorni dell'odio, also known as This Man Ca n't Die) is a 1968 Italian spaghetti western film directed by Gianfranco Baldanello.
Yojimbo
Based on the success of" Yojimbo", Kurosawa's next film," Sanjuro"( 1962), was altered to incorporate the lead character of this film.
In both films, the character wears a rather dilapidated dark kimono bearing the same family" mon".
The Apartment
The Apartment is a 1960 American romantic comedy film produced and directed by Billy Wilder from a screenplay he co-wrote with I. A. L. Diamond, starring Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine, alongside Fred MacMurray, Ray Walston, Jack Kruschen, David Lewis, Willard Waterman, David White, Hope Holiday and Edie Adams.
The story follows C. C. “ Bud ” Baxter( Lemmon), an insurance clerk who, in the hope of climbing the corporate ladder, lets more-senior coworkers use his Upper West Side apartment to conduct extramarital affairs.
Bud is attracted to the elevator operator, Fran Kubelik( MacLaine), who in turn is having an affair with Bud's immediate boss, Sheldrake( MacMurray).
" The Apartment" was distributed by United Artists to favorable reviews and commercial success, despite controversy owing to its subject matter.
At the 33rd Academy Awards," The Apartment" was nominated for ten awards and won five, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Screenplay.
Lemmon and MacLaine were Oscar-nominated and won Golden Globe Awards for their performances in the film.
It provided the basis for" Promises, Promises", a 1968 Broadway musical by Burt Bacharach, Hal David and Neil Simon.
In the years since its release," The Apartment" has come to be regarded as one of the greatest films ever made, appearing in lists by the American Film Institute and" Sight and Sound" magazine, and being selected by the United States Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry.
Matt Corboy
Matt Corboy( born June 4, 1973) is an American actor.
He has appeared in both films and television series.
Brian Andrews (actor)
Brian Andrews is an American actor who has appeared in movies and on television.
He is best known for his role as Tommy Doyle in the classic John Carpenter horror movie" Halloween".
He has also appeared in the films" The Great SantiniThree O'Clock High" and" The Long Days of Summer".
His first television role was in the soap opera" Days of Our Lives" in 1970, as Michael William Horton.
Andrews has appeared on TV movies and made guest appearances on TV shows like" Kung FuBarettaQuincy The Bronx Zoo".
Andrews resides in San Fernando Valley, California.

Question: Do both films, Long Days of Vengeance and The Apartment, have the directors who are from the same country?
Answer: no