William Mastrosimone
William Mastrosimone( born August 19, 1947) is an American playwright and screenwriter from Trenton, New Jersey.
He attended high school at The Pennington School and received a graduate degree in playwrighting from Mason Gross School of the Arts, a part of Rutgers University.
His plays include" The Woolgatherer Extremities Shivaree", and" Cat's Paw".
He also wrote" Bang Bang You're Dead," which was once able to be downloaded from the Internet and performed by students for free.
Other plays include" The Afghan Women" and" Nanawatai", upon which the film" The Beast" is based.
Two recent plays are" Sleepwalk", a story again focusing on the traumas of modern teenage life, and" Dirty Business", a play about a party girl caught between the mafia and the newly elected President of the United States.
Mastrosimone's first play was" The Woolgatherer" which premiered at Rutgers Theatre Company in New Jersey of 1979.
His screenwriting credits include," With HonorsInto the West" and the adaptation of his play" Extremities".
He won 2 Daytime Emmy Awards for" Bang, Bang You're Dead" and was nominated for a Prime Time Emmy for" Into the West" and" The Burning Season".
His play" Bang Bang You're Dead" is being toured by' Playground Theatre Project' with students from Actor's Playground School of Theatre( in NJ), directed by Ralph Colombino, based in the Tri-State Area.
This company goes to middle schools, high schools, and universities to prevent violence.
Lance Comfort
Lance Comfort( 11 August 1908 – 25 August 1966) was an English film director and producer born in Harrow, London.
In a career spanning over 25 years he became one of the most prolific film directors in Britain, though he never gained critical attention and remained on the fringes of the film industry, creating mostly B movies.
Comfort carried on working almost right up to his death in Worthing, Sussex, 1966.
He had four children: Edward, born in 1929, James, born in 1931, Anna, born in 1934 and Jack, born in 1936.
Paul Frankeur
Paul Frankeur( 29 June 1905- 27 October 1974) was a French actor who appeared in films by Jacques Tati(" Jour de fête") and Luis Buñuel(" The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie" and" The Phantom of Liberty").
He was sometimes credited as Paul Francoeur.
Our Man in Marrakesh
Our Man in Marrakesh( released in North America as Bang!
Bang! You're Dead!) is a 1966 British comedy spy film shot in Morocco produced and co-written by Harry Alan Towers, directed by Don Sharp and starring Tony Randall, Herbert Lom and Senta Berger.
Jacques Cottin
Jacques Cottin was a French costume designer whose films included" Jour de fête"( 1949)," Mon oncle"( 1958), and" Playtime"( 1967), for Jacques Tati.
In 1970 he had a cameo in François Truffaut's" Bed and Board", playing the character of Monsieur Hulot, made famous by Tati.
Bang! You're Dead
Bang!
You're Dead is a 1954 British psychological film drama, directed by Lance Comfort and starring Jack Warner, Anthony Richmond, Veronica Hurst, Derek Farr and Sean Barrett.
The film takes as its subject the accidental killing of a man by a child, and the struggles of the child and his companion to comprehend the gravity of what has happened.
Berlin, Appointment for the Spies
Berlin, Appointment for the Spies( Italian:" Berlino- Appuntamento per le spie") is a 1965 Italian Eurospy film directed by Vittorio Sala and starring Dana Andrews.
The film is also known as" Bang You're Dead".
It was retitled Spy in Your Eye for American International Pictures' American release where it was double billed with" Secret Agent Fireball".
Kelly Masterson
Kelly Masterson is an American screenwriter, playwright and writer who lives in New York.
He wrote the screenplay for the film" Before the Devil Knows You're Dead", for which he is perhaps best known.
Before moving to New York to stage several of his early plays, he studied Theology at the University of California, Davis.
He tried to get the script for" Before the Devil Knows You're Dead," made seven years before director Sidney Lumet agreed to direct it.
In describing his script he has said: Subsequent to his success with" Before the Devil Knows You're Dead", he has worked in several media including stage plays, film and television.
Masterson's play" Edith." about Woodrow and Edith Wilson premiered at the Berkshire Theater Festival in 2012.
He also collaborated with Korean director Bong Joon- ho on the critically acclaimed" Snowpiercer", an English- language production that received a North American release in 2014.
Masterson wrote the teleplay for the television movie," Killing Kennedy", which aired in November 2013 on the National Geographic Channel.
Jour de fête
Jour de fête(" The Big Day") is a 1949 French comedy film starring Jacques Tati in his feature film directional debut as an inept and easily distracted mailman in a backward French village.
Shot largely in and around Sainte- Sévère- sur- Indre, where Tati had lived during the Occupation, most of the actors were unknown and villagers served as extras.
Jacques Tati
Jacques Tati( born Jacques Tatischeff,; 9 October 1907 – 5 November 1982) was a French mime, filmmaker, actor, and screenwriter.
Throughout his long career, he worked as a comic actor, writer, and director.
In a poll conducted by" Entertainment Weekly" of the Greatest Movie Directors, Tati was voted the 46th greatest of all time.
With only six feature- length films to his credit as director, he directed fewer films than any other director on this list of 50.
Tati's" Playtime"( 1967) ranked 43rd in the 2012" Sight& Sound" critics' poll of the greatest films ever made.
As David Bellos puts it," Tati, from" l' Ecole des facteurs" to" Playtime", is the epitome of what an" auteur" is( in film theory) supposed to be: the controlling mind behind a vision of the world on film".

Question: Which film has the director who was born first, Jour De Fête or Bang! You'Re Dead?
Answer: Jour De Fête