They Knew Mr. Knight (film)
They Knew Mr. Knight is a 1946 British drama film directed by Norman Walker and starring Mervyn Johns, Nora Swinburne and Joyce Howard.
It was based on a 1934 novel of the same title by Dorothy Whipple.
A man is sentenced to twelve months in Lincoln jail following his involvement in a share scam, plunging himself and his family into despair.
However, by the time of his release he is able to face his uncertain future with fortitude.
The film was made by Norman Walker's G.H.W. Productions, funded by the Rank Organisation, at Denham Studios.
It suffered a financial loss on its release and it was the last of four films that Walker made for Rank.
The Teahouse of the Ten Lotus Flowers
The Teahouse of the Ten Lotus Flowers( German: Das Teehaus zu den zehn Lotosblumen) is a 1919 German silent crime film( filmed in color) directed by Georg Jacoby and starring Ellen Richter, Victor Janson and Meinhart Maur.
The film's sets were designed by the art director Kurt Richter.
Norman Walker (director)
Norman Walker (8 October 1892 – 4 November 1963) was an English film director.
In the 1940s he set up his own company G.H.W. Productions, backed by the Rank Organisation, and released four films.
The Teahouse of the August Moon (film)
The Teahouse of the August Moon is a 1956 American comedy film directed by Daniel Mann and starring Marlon Brando.
It satirizes the U.S. occupation and Americanization of the island of Okinawa following the end of World War II in 1945.
John Patrick adapted the screenplay from his own Pulitzer- Prize- and Tony- Award- winning Broadway play of 1953.
The play was, in turn, adapted from a 1951 novel by Vern J. Sneider.
The film was entered into the 7th Berlin International Film Festival.
Georg Jacoby
Georg Jacoby( 23 July 1882 – 21 February 1964) was a German film director and screenwriter.
Wale Adebanwi
Wale Adebanwi( born 1969) is a Nigerian- born first Black Rhodes Professor at St Antony's College, Oxford.
Vern Sneider
Vernon J. Sneider( 6 October 1916 – 1 May 1981) was an American novelist perhaps most noted for his 1951 novel" The Teahouse of the August Moon", which was later adapted by John Patrick for a Broadway play in 1953, a motion picture in 1956, and the Broadway musical" Lovely Ladies, Kind Gentlemen" in 1970.
The play" The Teahouse of the August Moon" won the Pulitzer Prize in Drama in 1954.
His novel" A Pail of Oysters", about life during the White Terror by Chinese Nationalists regime in Taiwan, was reissued by Camphor Press on February 28, 2016, the 69th anniversary of the 1947 2-28 Incident.
He was born and died in Monroe, Michigan.
He was the son of Fred Sneider and Matilda D. Althover Sneider.
After graduating from the University of Notre Dame in 1940, he entered the Army.
He was a member of a military government team that landed in Okinawa in April 1945.
There he became commander of Tobaru, a village of 5,000 people that became Tobiki Village in" The Teahouse".
He was married first to Barbara Lee Cook( 1925 – 1968).
Hassan Zee
Hassan Zee is a Pakistani- American film director who was born in Chakwal, Pakistan.
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.
Michael Gallagher (translator)
Michael Gallagher( born 1930) is an author and translator of Japanese literature.
His translation of Yukio Mishima's" Spring Snow" was a finalist for the National Book Award in 1973, while his nonfiction work" Laws of Heaven" was the winner of the Alpha Sigma Nu Jesuit Book Award in Theology.
As a Jesuit scholastic, he spent three years teaching English at St. Xavier High School in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he directed several plays, including" The Teahouse of the August Moon".
He left the Jesuit order and served briefly as a paratrooper in Korea.

Question: Which film has the director who was born first, They Knew Mr. Knight (Film) or The Teahouse Of The Ten Lotus Flowers?
Answer: The Teahouse Of The Ten Lotus Flowers