The Blue Max
The Blue Max is a 1966 British war film in DeLuxe Color and filmed in CinemaScope, about a German fighter pilot on the Western Front during World War I.
It was directed by John Guillermin, stars George Peppard, James Mason and Ursula Andress, and features Karl Michael Vogler and Jeremy Kemp.
The screenplay was written by David Pursall, Jack Seddon, and Gerald Hanley, based on the novel of the same name by Jack D. Hunter as adapted by Ben Barzman and Basilio Franchina.
In contrast to films that romanticise the Flying Aces of the Great War, the protagonist of" The Blue Max" is depicted as a man who appears to have no regard for anyone but himself.
Set against the realities of modern warfare, the film also explores the decline of chivalry and the advent of total war.
Reflections (1984 film)
Reflections is a 1984 British drama film directed by Kevin Billington and starring Gabriel Byrne, Donal McCann and Fionnula Flanagan.
The film is an adaptation for the British broadcaster Channel 4 of the 1982 novel" The Newton Letter" by John Banville, who also wrote the screenplay.
John Guillermin
John Guillermin( 11 November 192527 September 2015) was a British film director, writer and producer who was most active in big budget, action adventure films throughout his lengthy career.
His more well- known films include" I Was Monty's Double"( 1958)," Tarzan's Greatest Adventure"( 1959)," Never Let Go"( 1960)," Tarzan Goes to India"( 1962)," Waltz of the Toreadors"( 1962)," The Blue Max"( 1966)," The Bridge at Remagen"( 1969)," The Towering Inferno"( 1974)," King Kong"( 1976)," Death on the Nile"( 1978)," Sheena"( 1984) and" King Kong Lives"( 1986).
From the 1980s he worked on much less prestigious projects, and his final films consisted of lower budgeted theatrical releases and made- for- TV films.
According to one obituary," Regardless of whether he was directing a light comedy, war epic or crime drama, Mr. Guillermin had a reputation as an intense, temperamental perfectionist, notorious for screaming at cast and crew alike.
His domineering manner often alienated producers and actors ...
But Mr. Guillermin's impeccable eye and ability to capture both intimate moments and large- scale action scenes usually overcame that reputation."
Kevin Billington
Kevin Billington( born 12 June 1934) is an English film director, who has worked in the theatre, film and television since the 1960s.
The son of a factory worker, and educated at Bryanston School and Queens' College, Cambridge, early in his career he worked for the BBC as a radio producer in Leeds( 1959 – 60) and then for television in Manchester( 1960 – 61) before working on the early evening" Tonight" and on documentaries for the BBC and ATV until 1967.
Billington's films include" The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer"( 1970), which stars Peter Cook, while his theatre work includes several productions of plays by Harold Pinter, his brother- in- law.
Billington's television work includes" Henry VIII"( 1979) for the BBC Television Shakespeare project, one of the best received productions in the series.
He also directed" The Good Soldier"( Granada 1981), based on the novel by Ford Madox Ford, and" A Time to Dance"( BBC 1992), adapted by Melvyn Bragg from his own work of fiction.
He is married to Lady Rachel Billington, having met while they were both working in New York, they married the following year in 1967.
The couple have four children and five grandchildren.
Wale Adebanwi
Wale Adebanwi( born 1969) is a Nigerian- born first Black Rhodes Professor at St Antony's College, Oxford.
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.
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.
Rumbi Katedza
Rumbi Katedza is a Zimbabwean Film Producer and Director who was born on 17 January 1974.
Jack D. Hunter
Jack Dayton Hunter( June 4, 1921 – April 13, 2009) was an American author and artist, best known for his novel," The Blue Max", which was made into a film of the same name.
Hassan Zee
Hassan Zee is a Pakistani- American film director who was born in Chakwal, Pakistan.

Question: Which film has the director who was born first, The Blue Max or Reflections (1984 Film)?
Answer: The Blue Max