Carel Struycken
Carel Struycken( born 30 July 1948) is a Dutch film, television, and stage actor.
He is best known for playing the Giant/ Fireman in" Twin Peaks"( 1990 – 1991, 2017), in( 1987– 1992), and Lurch in the films" The Addams Family"( 1991)," Addams Family Values"( 1993)," Addams Family Reunion"( 1998).
He also appeared in the films" Gerald's Game"( 2017), from Netflix, and" Doctor Sleep"( 2019), both based on Stephen King novels and directed by Mike Flanagan.
Barry Sonnenfeld
Barry Sonnenfeld( born April 1, 1953) is an American filmmaker and television director.
He originally worked as a cinematographer for the Coen brothers before directing films such as" The Addams Family"( 1991) and its sequel" Addams Family Values"( 1993) alongside the" Men in Black" trilogy( 1997 – 2012)," Wild Wild West"( 1999) and" Get Shorty"( 1995).
Sonnenfeld has collaborated with actor and singer Will Smith four times.
Larry Wilson (screenwriter)
Larry Wilson( born January 23, 1948) is an American film producer and screenwriter.
He is best known for his screenwriting work on the films" Beetlejuice"( 1988) and" The Addams Family"( 1991).
He also co-wrote the films" The Little Vampire"( 2000) and, for television," The Year Without a Santa Claus"( 2006).
He wrote and directed a number of episodes of the" Tales from the Crypt" television series from 1991 to 1996.
John Sturges
John Eliot Sturges( January 3, 1910 – August 18, 1992) was an American film director.
His movies include" Bad Day at Black Rock"( 1955)," Gunfight at the O.K. Corral"( 1957)," The Magnificent Seven"( 1960)," The Great Escape"( 1963), and" Ice Station Zebra"( 1968).
In 2013," The Magnificent Seven" was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being" culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
He was not related to director Preston Sturges.
Bad Day at Black Rock
Bad Day at Black Rock is a 1955 American thriller film, directed by John Sturges and starring Spencer Tracy and Robert Ryan, that combines elements of the western genre with those of film noir.
The supporting cast includes Anne Francis, Dean Jagger, Walter Brennan, Lee Marvin, and Ernest Borgnine.
The film tells the story of a mysterious stranger who arrives at a tiny isolated town in a desert of the southwest United States in search of a man.
The film was adapted by Don McGuire and Millard Kaufman from the short story" Bad Time at Honda" by Howard Breslin.
The original story had appeared in" The American Magazine" in January 1947, with full- color illustrations by Robert Fawcett.
In 2018, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being" culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."
John Franklin (actor)
John Franklin( born John Paul Salapatek; June 16, 1959) is an American actor best known for playing Isaac Chroner in" Children of the Corn"( 1984), and Cousin Itt in" The Addams Family"( 1991).
Howard Breslin
Howard Mary Breslin( 23 December 1912 – 30 May 1964) was an American novelist and radio script writer.
He mainly wrote novels of historical fiction and is most notable for" The Tamarack Tree" and" Bad Time at Honda", a short story that was the basis of the film" Bad Day at Black Rock".
He also published under the nom de plume Michael Niall.
The Addams Family (1991 film)
The Addams Family is a 1991 American supernatural black comedy film based on the characters from the cartoon created by cartoonist Charles Addams and the 1964 TV series produced by David Levy.
Directed by former cinematographer Barry Sonnenfeld in his screen directing debut, the film stars Anjelica Huston, who was nominated for a Golden Globe for her performance as Morticia Addams, Raul Julia as Gomez Addams, and Christopher Lloyd as Uncle Fester.
The film focuses on a bizarre, macabre, aristocratic family who reconnect with who they believe to be a long- lost relative, Gomez's brother Fester Addams, who is actually the adopted son of a loan shark intending to swindle the Addams clan out of their vast wealth and fortune.
The film was noted for its troubled production; originally developed at Orion, the film went$ 5 million over budget due to constant rewrites throughout shooting; health problems of people involved in the filming and an overall stressful filming for Sonnenfeld himself, caused multiple delays.
The rise in production costs from the film's$ 25 million budget to$ 30 million led Orion, fearful of another big- budget flop and financially struggling, to sell the film to Paramount, who completed the film and handled the film's domestic distribution, while Metro- Goldwyn- Mayer distributed the film internationally.
The film was commercially successful, making back several times its production costs, and was followed by a sequel," Addams Family Values", two years later.
Coincidentally, Orion's parent studio, MGM, would release the 2019 animated film.
Millard Kaufman
Millard Kaufman( March 12, 1917 – March 14, 2009) was an American screenwriter and novelist.
His works include the Academy Award- nominated" Bad Day at Black Rock"( 1955).
He was also one of the creators of Mr. Magoo.
Jimmy Workman
James Christopher Workman( born October 4, 1980) is a retired American actor, best known for playing the role of Pugsley Addams in" The Addams Family"( 1991) and" Addams Family Values"( 1993).

Question: Are both directors of films The Addams Family (1991 Film) and Bad Day At Black Rock from the same country?
Answer: yes