Rachel Feldman
Rachel Feldman( born August 22, 1954) is an American director of film and television and screenwriter of television films.
Howard W. Koch
Howard Winchel Koch( April 11, 1916 – February 16, 2001) was an American producer and director of film and television.
Brian Johnson (special effects artist)
Brian Johnson( born 1939 or 1940) is a British designer and director of film and television special effects.
Louis King
Louis King( born June 28, 1898, Christiansburg, Virginia – died September 7, 1962) was an American actor and film director of westerns and adventure movies in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s.
K. Balachander
Kailasam Balachander( 9 July 1930 – 23 December 2014) was an Indian filmmaker and playwright who worked mainly in the Tamil film industry.
He was well known for his distinct film- making style, and the Indian film industry knew him as a master of unconventional themes and hard- hitting contemporary subject matter.
Balachander's films are well known for their portrayal of women as bold personalities and central characters.
Popularly referred to as" Iyakkunar Sigaram"( lit." the director who scaled the peak"), his films are usually centred on unusual or complicated interpersonal relationships and social themes.
He started his film career in 1964 as a screenwriter and graduated to a director with" Neerkumizhi"( 1965).
In a career that spanned 50 years, he had contributed to nearly 100 feature films either as a screenwriter or director, thus becoming one of the most prolific filmmakers in the country.
Known among his colleagues as a tough task master, he was credited with having nurtured numerous actors, notably Nagesh, Sujatha, Kamal Haasan, Rajinikanth, Chiranjeevi, Jayaprada, Sridevi, Jayasudha, Saritha, Renuka, Nassar, Prakash Raj, Ramesh Aravind and Vivek.
In his film career, Balachander had won nine National Film Awards and 13 Filmfare Awards.
He was honored with the Padma Shri( 1987), India's fourth highest civilian award, and the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, India's highest award in cinema.
He also made films under his production house, Kavithalaya Productions.
Apart from Tamil, he made films in other languages such as Telugu, Kannada and Hindi.
Towards the tail end of his career, he directed a few TV serials and made a few film appearances as well.
Thappida Thala
Thappida Thaala  is a 1978 Indian Kannada language film directed by K. Balachander.
It stars Rajnikanth and Saritha in the lead roles.
It was simultaneously made in Tamil as "Thappu Thalangal".
It was later remade in Malayalam as Kazhukan
Hanro Smitsman
Hanro Smitsman, born in 1967 in Breda( Netherlands), is a writer and director of film and television.
The Deceiver (film)
The Deceiver is a 1931 American pre-Code mystery film directed by Louis King.
It was written by Jack Cunningham, based on a short story called "It Might Have Happened" by Bella Muni and Abem Finkel.
The film stars Lloyd Hughes, Ian Keith and Dorothy Sebastian.
John Wayne makes a minor appearance as a stand-in playing Ian Keith's corpse.
It featured a lot of song and tap dance numbers by Negro performers in an act billed as "Hot Harlem".
The film premiered on November 21, 1931.
Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.
Peter Levin
Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre.

Question: Are director of film The Deceiver (Film) and director of film Thappida Thala from the same country?
Answer: no