Seymour Friedman
Seymour Friedman( August 17, 1917 – April 2, 2003) was an American film director.
He later worked as a production manager in television.
Friedman began his career as an assistant director, before enlisting for military service following America's entry into World War II.
He directed his first film," Trapped by Boston Blackie", in 1948.
Like many of the other films he directed, it was a low- budget series film.
In the early 1950s, Friedman went to Britain to make a couple of films, before returning to Hollywood.
He directed his last film in 1956, and switched to working entirely in television.
Alias Boston Blackie
Alias Boston Blackie( 1942) is the third in a series of Columbia Pictures" B" movies starring Chester Morris as Boston Blackie.
It was preceded by" Meet Boston BlackieConfessions of Boston Blackie" and followed by" Boston Blackie Goes Hollywood".
Once again, Blackie is suspected of committing a crime, in this instance of helping a prisoner escape.
A Matter of Fat
A Matter of Fat is a 1969 documentary film by William Weintraub chronicling the efforts of a 358- pound man, Gilles Lorrain, to lose half his body weight as part of a hospital supervised weight loss program.
In the film, Lorrain recounts his life and experiences, often with humour.
In one 21- second time lapse sequence, Weintraub shows Lorrain's 150- pound weight loss, filmed at two frames a day for seven months.
The film also shows Lorrain's return to his family after the gruelling program, and his conviction that he will be one of one in four dieters who can keep the weight off.
In addition to focusing on Lorrain's story, the film explores what other obese people are doing to lose weight, and hears from medical authorities on misconceptions and practices in the weight loss industry.
" A Matter of Fat" also motivated the film's director to lose weight.
Produced by the National Film Board of Canada," A Matter of Fat" features narration by Lorne Greene.
The film received four awards, including the Etrog Award for Best Film Over 30 Minutes.
Confessions of Boston Blackie
Confessions of Boston Blackie is a 1941 American crime film directed by Edward Dmytryk and starring Chester Morris and Harriet Hilliard.
A woman consigns a family heirloom to a pair of unscrupulous art dealers in order to raise money to help her sick brother.
This film is the second in the series of 14 Columbia Pictures Boston Blackie films, all starring Morris as the reformed crook.
It was preceded by" Meet Boston Blackie"( 1941) and followed by" Alias Boston Blackie"( 1942).
William Weintraub
William Weintraub,( February 19, 1926 – November 6, 2017) was a Canadian journalist, author, filmmaker and lecturer, known for his long association with Canada's National Film Board( NFB).
Born and educated in Montreal, Weintraub graduated from McGill University where he had worked on the" McGill Daily".
He began his career as a reporter at" The Montreal Gazette" in the 1950s, later moving to" Weekend" magazine.
His experience in journalism provided the basis for Weintraub's 1961 novel" Why Rock the Boat?" and his 2001 memoir" Getting Started".
Among Weintraub's contemporaries and friends were authors Mordecai Richler, Mavis Gallant, Norman Levine and Brian Moore.
Weintraub's satirical 1979 novel" The Underdogs" provoked controversy by imagining a future socialist republic of Quebec, in which English- speakers were an oppressed minority, complete with a violent resistance movement.
One planned stage version was cancelled before its premiere, but another version was later a hit at the Just For Laughs festival.
In a film career spanning decades, Weintraub was involved with more than 150 NFB productions, serving variously as writer, producer and director.
Productions ranged from" Canada: Beef Cattle" to historical documentaries to a portrait of Canadian writer Margaret Laurence.
His 1993 documentary" The Rise and Fall of English Montreal" dealt with the second large Quebec diaspora that began in the 1960s and accelerated rapidly after the 1976 Quebec election.
The" National Post" wrote that he said that Torontonians should express their gratitude to a major benefactor of the city and erect a very large heroic statue at the head of Bay Street of former Premier of Quebec René Lévesque.
Weintraub published four books after his seventieth birthday including" City Unique"( 1996), an exploration of English Montreal in the 1940s and 1950s, which received the QSPELL Prize for Non-Fiction from the Quebec Writers' Federation Awards.
In 2003, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.
Trapped by Boston Blackie
Trapped by Boston Blackie is a 1948 American crime drama directed by Seymour Friedman.
It is the thirteenth of fourteen Columbia Pictures films starring Chester Morris as reformed crook Boston Blackie, and the final film with George E. Stone as" The Runt".
Boston Blackie's Rendezvous
Boston Blackie's Rendezvous is a 1945 American crime film directed by Arthur Dreifuss.
Boston Blackie's life gets complicated when maniac murderer James Cook( Steve Cochran) goes on a killing spree while pretending to be Boston Blackie.
To further complicate matters, the murderer kidnaps Sally Brown( Nina Foch) to keep Boston Blackie at bay.
The working title of this film was" Surprise in the Night".
After Midnight with Boston Blackie
After Midnight with Boston Blackie is a 1943 crime film directed by Lew Landers.
It is the fifth of a series of 14 Columbia Pictures movies starring Chester Morris as Boston Blackie.
When a recently paroled friend of Boston Blackie is killed, he finds himself once again the prime suspect of Police Inspector Farraday.
A Close Call for Boston Blackie
A Close Call for Boston Blackie( 1946) is the tenth of fourteen Columbia Pictures crime films directed by Lew Landers starring Chester Morris as Boston Blackie.
Boston Blackie and the Law
Boston Blackie and the Law is the twelfth of fourteen Columbia Pictures films starring Chester Morris as reformed crook Boston Blackie.

Question: Are the directors of both films A Matter Of Fat and Trapped By Boston Blackie from the same country?
Answer: no