Orphan of Lowood
Orphan of Lowood( German: Die Waise von Lowood) is a 1926 German silent drama film directed by Curtis Bernhardt and starring Evelyn Holt, Olaf Fønss and Dina Diercks.
It is based on the 1847 British novel" Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Bront ë.
It was shot at the Terra Studios in Marienfelde.
" Jane Eyre" was remade as a sound film in 1934.
Director Bernhardt, a Jew wanted by the Gestapo, escaped from Nazi Germany and immigrated to Hollywood( via England) where he directed films for MGM, RKO, Columbia Pictures and Warner Brothers.
Overland Telegraph (film)
Overland Telegraph is a 1951 Western starring Tim Holt.
Gilbert Rotherdale McMinn
Gilbert Rotherdale McMinn (1841 – 18 October 1924) was an Australian surveyor born in Ireland noted for his work in the Northern Territory surveying the Overland Telegraph Line.
His middle name is occasionally spelt "Rutherdale".
Curtis Bernhardt
Curtis Bernhardt( 15 April 1899 – 22 February 1981) was a German film director born in Worms, Germany, under the name Kurt Bernhardt.
He trained as an actor in Germany, and performed on the stage, before starting as a film director in 1924, with" Nameless Heroes".
Other films include" A Stolen Life"( 1946) and" Sirocco"( 1951).
Bernhardt made films in Germany from 1925 until 1933, when he was forced to flee the Nazi regime — who briefly had him arrested — because he was Jewish.
Bernhardt directed films in France and England before moving on to Hollywood to work for Warner Brothers in 1940.
He produced and directed his last Hollywood picture," Kisses for My President"( 1964), about the nation's first female Chief Executive starring Polly Bergen and Fred MacMurray.
He is interred at Glendale's Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, near his wife, Pearl Argyle Wellman Bernhardt.
Horace Carpentier
Horace Walpole Carpentier( 1824–1918) was a lawyer and the first mayor of Oakland, California.
He also served as president of the Overland Telegraph Company which oversaw the construction of the western portion of the first transcontinental telegraph in the United States.
Gwen Munro
Gwen Munro( born 1915) was an Australian actor best known for playing the female lead in" Orphan of the Wilderness"( 1936).
Alfred Giles (explorer)
Alfred Giles( 18 February 1846 – 20 March 1931), born in Datchet, England, was a South Australian bushman, drover and explorer who crossed Australia from south to north seven times, mostly in connection with the building of the Overland Telegraph Line 1870 – 1872.
The Overland Telegraph
The Overland Telegraph is a 1929 American Western silent film directed by John Waters and written by Harry Sinclair Drago, George C. Hull and Edward J. Meagher.
The film stars Tim McCoy, Dorothy Janis, Frank Rice, Lawford Davidson, Clarence Geldart and Chief John Big Tree.
The film was released on March 2, 1929, by Metro- Goldwyn- Mayer.
John Waters (director born 1893)
John Waters( October 31, 1893 – May 5, 1965) was an American film director, second unit director and, earlier, an assistant director.
His career began in the early days of silent film and culminated in two consecutive Academy Award nominations in the newly instituted category of Best Assistant Director.
The second nomination, for MGM's" Viva Villa!", won him an Oscar statuette at the 7th Academy Awards on February 27, 1935.
Richard Randall Knuckey
Richard Randall Knuckey( 26 September 1842 – 14 June 1914), often referred to as R.R. Knuckey and popularly known as Dick Knuckey, was a surveyor on the Overland Telegraph Line in central Australia from 1871 to 1872.
He later became Chief Officer at the Electric Telegraph Department in Adelaide.

Question: Which film has the director who died first, The Overland Telegraph or Orphan of Lowood?
Answer: The Overland Telegraph