Karl Grune
Karl Grune (22 January 1890 – 2 October 1962) was an Austrian film director and writer who made many silent films in the 1920s.
Grune was born into a Jewish family in Vienna, where he later attended drama school.
He volunteered in the First World War, where an injury temporarily deprived him of the ability to speak in 1918.
After the war he made his directing debut in 1919 with "Menschen in KettenPeople in Chains").
In 1923 he made "Schlagende Wetter" with Liane Haid and Eugen Klöpfer in the leading roles.
The film is a notable early example of naturalism in film making, at a time when expressionism was the norm.
Also that year he made "Die StraßeThe Street"), which is considered Grune's most notable film.
In 1926 he made "Die Brüder SchellenbergThe Brothers Schellenberg") with Conrad Veidt and Lil Dagover.
Many of his early films are now lost.
He emigrated to England in 1933 and there made "Abdul the Damned" with Fritz Kortner in 1935, and in 1936 he filmed Ruggiero Leoncavallo's opera Pagliacci with Richard Tauber.
In his later career he turned to producing films in the 1940s.
He died in Bournemouth, England in 1962.
The Laughing Lady
" For the 1929 film see The Laughing Lady( 1929 film)"
The Laughing Lady is a 1946 British Technicolor musical drama film directed by Paul L. Stein and starring Anne Ziegler, Webster Booth and Francis L. Sullivan.
Based on a play by Ingram D'Abbes, its plot follows a young aristocrat who makes a deal with Robespierre during the French Revolution.
Allan Dwan
Allan Dwan (3 April 1885 – 28 December 1981) was a pioneering Canadian-born American motion picture director, producer, and screenwriter.
Fred Roy Krug
Fred R. Krug is an American film and television producer- director born in Bern, Switzerland.
Waterloo (1929 film)
Waterloo is a 1929 German silent war film directed by Karl Grune and starring Charles Willy Kayser, Charles Vanel and Otto Gebühr.
It depicts the Allied forces victory over Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.
It was made at the Munich studios of Bavaria Film.
The film's sets were designed by the art director Ludwig Reiber.
Claude Weisz
Claude Weisz is a French film director born in Paris.
Sepideh Farsi
Sepideh Farsi is an Iranian film director, born in Tehran in 1965.
Jacques Décombe
Jacques Décombe is a French author, actor and director born in 1953.
The Kingdom of Twilight
The Kingdom of Twilight is a 1929 film directed by British author and explorer Alexander MacDonald.
What a Widow!
What a Widow! was a 1930 American pre-Code romantic comedy film directed by Allan Dwan and produced by and starring Gloria Swanson.
It was distributed through United Artists.
The film was produced by Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. It received generally positive reviews and was noted for its animated title sequence created by William Dietz, but was met with lukewarm returns at the box office.

Question: Which film has the director born earlier, Waterloo (1929 Film) or What A Widow!?
Answer: What A Widow!