R. G. Springsteen
Robert G. Springsteen (September 8, 1904 – December 9, 1989) was an American director of Hollywood B movies and television shows.
He was most often credited on screen as R. G. Springsteen.
Donald Crisp
Donald Crisp( born George William Crisp, 27 July 188225 May 1974) was an English film actor.
He was an early producer, director and screenwriter.
His career lasted from the early silent film era into the 1960s.
He won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1942 for his performance in" How Green Was My Valley".
Morton Lowry
Morton Lowry, born Edward Morton Lowater( 13 February 1914 – 26 November 1987) was a British actor.
He is best known for his film roles as John Stapleton in" The Hound of The Baskervilles"( 1939) and for his role as Mr. Jonas in" How Green was My Valley".
He also appeared in other films including" Pursuit to Algiers" and" The Picture of Dorian Gray" both in 1945.
Arthur Miller (cinematographer)
Arthur Charles Miller, A.S.C.( July 8, 1895 – July 13, 1970) was an American cinematographer.
He was nominated for the Oscar for Best Cinematography six times, winning three times: for" How Green Was My Valley" in 1941," The Song of Bernadette" in 1944, and" Anna and the King of Siam" in 1947.
Secret Venture
Secret Venture is a 1955 British B-movie thriller film directed by R. G. Springsteen and starring Kent Taylor, Jane Hylton and Kathleen Byron.
Blindfold (1966 film)
Blindfold is a 1966 American motion picture by Universal Pictures, starring Rock Hudson and Claudia Cardinale that was based on Lucille Fletcher's 1960 novel of the same name.
It was the last film directed by Philip Dunne, a successful Hollywood screenwriter of pictures such as" How Green Was My Valley" and" The Robe".
Sequences were filmed in Silver Springs, Florida and Central Park in New York City.
John Ford
John Ford( February 1, 1894 – August 31, 1973) was an American film director.
He is renowned both for Westerns such as" Stagecoach"( 1939)," The Searchers"( 1956), and" The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance"( 1962), as well as adaptations of classic 20th- century American novels such as the film" The Grapes of Wrath"( 1940).
His four Academy Awards for Best Director( in 1935, 1940, 1941, and 1952) remain a record.
One of the films for which he won the award," How Green Was My Valley", also won Best Picture.
In a career that spanned more than 50 years, Ford directed more than 140 films( although most of his silent films are now lost) and he is widely regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers of his generation.
Ford's work was held in high regard by his colleagues, with Orson Welles and Ingmar Bergman among those who have named him one of the greatest directors of all time.
Ford made frequent use of location shooting and long shots, in which his characters were framed against a vast, harsh, and rugged natural terrain.
Nathan Juran
Naftuli" Nathan" Hertz Juran( Gura Humorului –, Palos Verdes Estates, California, USA) was an American film art director, and later film and television director.
As an art director, he won the Oscar for Best Art Direction in 1942 for" How Green Was My Valley", along with Richard Day and Thomas Little.
His work on" The Razor's Edge" in 1946 also received an Academy nomination.
In the 1950s, he began to direct, and was known for science fiction and fantasy films such as" Attack of the 50 Foot Woman".
He was also the brother of quality guru Joseph M. Juran.
How Green Was My Valley (film)
How Green
Was My Valley is a 1941 drama film directed by John Ford.
The film, based on the 1939 novel of the same name by Richard Llewellyn, was produced by Darryl F. Zanuck and scripted by Philip Dunne.
The movie features Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O' Hara, Anna Lee, Donald Crisp, and Roddy McDowall.
It was nominated for ten Academy Awards, famously beating" Citizen Kane" and" The Maltese Falcon" for Best Picture along with winning Best Director, Best Cinematography, and Best Supporting Actor.
The movie tells of the Morgans, a hard- working Welsh mining family, the mother, kind and gentle, and the father, hard and strict, living, in the heart of the South Wales Valleys during the 19th century.
The story chronicles life in the South Wales coalfields, the loss of that way of life and its effects on the family.
The fictional village in the movie is based on Gilfach Goch; Llewellyn spent many summers there visiting his grandfather, and it served as the inspiration for the novel.
In 1990, the movie was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry of the Library of Congress as being" culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
The Academy Film Archive preserved" How Green Was My Valley" during 1998.
Philip Dunne (writer)
Philip Ives Dunne( February 11, 1908 – June 2, 1992) was a Hollywood screenwriter, film director and producer, who worked prolifically from 1932 until 1965.
He spent the majority of his career at 20th Century Fox crafting well regarded romantic and historical dramas, usually adapted from another medium.
Dunne was a leading Screen Writers Guild organizer and was politically active during the" Hollywood Blacklist" episode of the 1940s- 1950s.
He is best known for the films" How Green Was My Valley"( 1941)," The Ghost and Mrs. Muir"( 1947)," The Robe"( 1953) and" The Agony and the Ecstasy"( 1965).
Dunne received two Academy Award nominations for screenwriting:" How Green Was My Valley"( 1941) and" David and Bathsheba"( 1951).
He also received a Golden Globe nomination for his 1965 screen adaptation of Irving Stone's novel" The Agony and the Ecstasy", as well as several peer awards from the Writers Guild of America( WGA), including the Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement.
Many notable directors worked with Dunne's screenplays, including Carol Reed, John Ford, Jacques Tourneur, Elia Kazan, Otto Preminger, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, and Michael Curtiz, among others.

Question: Do both directors of films How Green Was My Valley (Film) and Secret Venture have the same nationality?
Answer: yes