Hassan Zee
Hassan Zee is a Pakistani- American film director who was born in Chakwal, Pakistan.
Peter Richardson (British director)
Peter Richardson( born 15 October 1951) is an English director, screenwriter, actor, and comedian.
Richardson founded the Comic Strip troupe of performers, which showcased his double act with Nigel Planer and launched the careers of French and Saunders, Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson, and Alexei Sayle.
Richardson approached Channel 4 to make a series of short, self- contained one- off comedy films with this group, which led to" The Comic Strip Presents ...", many of which were written, directed by and featured him in acting roles.
Richardson began his career as a teenager acting in Alan Bennett's" Forty Years On".
Trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School 1971- 73.
He later created his own experimental theatre shows with Nigel Planer amongst others, mixing comedy and improvisation with rock music.
Two of these shows," Rank" and" The Wild Boys" toured nationally.
Although he did not reach the same level of public recognition as some of his contemporaries, Richardson was influential on British television comedy throughout the 1980s as the driving force behind" The Comic Strip Presents ..." films, one of the first examples of alternative comedy to appear on British television.
Richardson has been involved in the production of over 40 Comic Strip films and has directed 17 of them.
The series won a Rose D'Or for" The Strike" in 1988.
He developed the series into feature films;" The SupergrassEat the Rich The Pope Must Die", and, none of which achieved great box office success.
In the 1990s, Richardson introduced a new generation of performers, Doon Mackichan, Mark Caven, Phil Cornwell, Sara Stockbridge, George Yiasoumi and Gary Beadle, who appeared in his productions.
He co-wrote and also directed the 1990s cult mockumentary comedy series Stella Street with Phil Cornwell and John Sessions.
In 2004, Richardson co -founded the production company Great Western Features with Nick Smith, which is based in Totnes, Devon.
In 2005, he directed the Comic Strip film" Sex Actually".
In the 2010s, Richardson wrote and directed two more Comic Strip films, 2011's" The Hunt for Tony Blair" and 2012's" Five Go To Rehab".
Rear Window
Rear Window is a 1954 American Technicolor mystery thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and written by John Michael Hayes based on Cornell Woolrich's 1942 short story" It Had to Be Murder".
Originally released by Paramount Pictures, the film stars James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter, and Raymond Burr.
It was screened at the 1954 Venice Film Festival.
The film is considered by many filmgoers, critics, and scholars to be one of Hitchcock's best and one of the greatest films ever made.
It received four Academy Award nominations and was ranked number 42 on AFI's 100 Years ... 100
Movies list and number 48 on the 10th- anniversary edition, and in 1997 was added to the United States National Film Registry in the Library of Congress as being" culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Wale Adebanwi
Wale Adebanwi( born 1969) is a Nigerian- born first Black Rhodes Professor at St Antony's College, Oxford.
The Pope Must Die
The Pope Must Die( U.S. /Canadian alternative title The Pope Must Diet!) is a 1991 comedy film directed by Peter Richardson and released by Palace Pictures with the backing of Channel 4 Films.
The script was written by Richardson with Pete Richens, derived from elements of an earlier screenplay for a three- part mini-series satirising the Catholic Church, which was rejected by Channel 4.
" The Pope Must Die" stars Robbie Coltrane as a low ranking priest who is mistakenly elected Pope, then has to avoid being assassinated by the Mafia.
The film co-stars Adrian Edmondson, Annette Crosbie, Herbert Lom, Alex Rocco and Richardson.
The film was originally planned as a part of a three- part mini series for Channel 4, which was cancelled by the station after press outcry.
This led Richardson to sever his long relationship with Channel 4 and move his future productions to the BBC.
The budget for the film was later approved by Palace Pictures with the backing of Channel 4 Films.
The production was filmed in 1990 in the former Yugoslavia on a budget of £ 2.5 million.
The film's subject matter was controversial, which caused the distributors serious difficulties with its promotion, London Transport refusing to carry advertising for it until the film's posters were censored.
In the United States the Big Three television networks refused to show commercials for the film, which they said was sacrilegious and offensive.
Many newspapers in the US also censored or refused to carry advertising for the film.
The film was released to mixed reviews, and struggled at the box office, failing to make back its budget at the cinema.
The film was released on VHS but it is not currently available on DVD or Blu-ray.
Hartley Lobban
Hartley W Lobban (9 May 1926 – 15 October 2004) was a Jamaican-born first-class cricketer who played 17 matches for Worcestershire in the early 1950s.
Annette Crosbie
Annette Crosbie,( born 12 February 1934) is a Scottish actress.
She is known for her role as Margaret Meldrew in the BBC sitcom" One Foot in the Grave"( 1990 – 2000).
She twice won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress, for" The Six Wives of Henry VIII" in 1971 and" Edward the Seventh" in 1976, and was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for the 1976 film" The Slipper and the Rose".
Her other film appearances include" The Pope Must Die"( 1991)," Shooting Fish"( 1997)," Calendar Girls"( 2003) and" Into the Woods"( 2014).
This Man Must Die
This Man Must Die , American title The Beast Must Die, is a 1969 French and Italian psychological thriller film directed by Claude Chabrol.
The story is based on a 1938 novel by Cecil Day-Lewis, writing as Nicholas Blake, "The Beast Must Die".
The film had a total of 1,092,910 admissions in France.
Henry Moore (cricketer)
Henry Walter Moore( 1849 – 20 August 1916) was an English- born first- class cricketer who spent most of his life in New Zealand.
Alfred Hitchcock
Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock,( 13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an English film director and producer, widely regarded as one of the most influential and extensively studied filmmakers in the history of cinema.
Known as" the Master of Suspense", he directed over 50 feature films in a career spanning six decades, becoming as well known as any of his actors thanks to his many interviews, his cameo roles in most of his films, and his hosting and producing of the television anthology" Alfred Hitchcock Presents"( 1955 – 1965).
His films garnered a total of 46 Oscar nominations and six wins.
Born in Leytonstone, Essex, Hitchcock entered the film industry in 1919 as a title card designer after training as a technical clerk and copy writer for a telegraph- cable company.
He made his directorial debut with the silent film" The Pleasure Garden"( 1925).
His first successful film,( 1927), helped to shape the thriller genre, while his 1929 film," Blackmail", was the first British.
Two of his 1930s thrillers," The 39 Steps"( 1935) and" The Lady Vanishes"( 1938), are ranked among the greatest British films of the 20th century.
By 1939 Hitchcock was a filmmaker of international importance, and film producer David O. Selznick persuaded him to move to Hollywood.
A string of successful films followed, including" Rebecca"( 1940)," Foreign Correspondent"( 1940)," Suspicion"( 1941)," Shadow of a Doubt"( 1943), and" Notorious"( 1946).
" Rebecca" won the Academy Award for Best Picture, although Hitchcock himself was only nominated as Best Director; he was also nominated for" Lifeboat"( 1944) and" Spellbound"( 1945), although he never won the Best Director Academy Award.
The" Hitchcockian" style includes the use of camera movement to mimic a person's gaze, thereby turning viewers into voyeurs, and framing shots to maximise anxiety and fear.
The film critic Robin Wood wrote that the meaning of a Hitchcock film" is there in the method, in the progression from shot to shot.
A Hitchcock film is an organism, with the whole implied in every detail and every detail related to the whole."
After a brief lull of commercial success in the late 1940s, Hitchcock returned to form with" Strangers on a Train"( 1951) and" Dial M For Murder"( 1954).
By 1960 Hitchcock had directed four films often ranked among the greatest of all time:" Rear Window"( 1954)," Vertigo"( 1958)," North by Northwest"( 1959), and" Psycho"( 1960) with the first and last of these garnering him Best Director nominations.
In 2012," Vertigo" replaced Orson Welles's" Citizen Kane"( 1941) as the British Film Institute's greatest film ever made based on its world- wide poll of hundreds of film critics.
By 2018 eight of his films had been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry, including his personal favourite," Shadow of a Doubt"( 1943).
He received the BAFTA Fellowship in 1971, the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1979 and was knighted in December that year, four months before he died.

Question: Which film has the director who was born first, The Pope Must Die or Rear Window?
Answer: Rear Window