The Blob
The Blob is an independently made 1958 American science fiction- horror film in widescreen color by De Luxe, produced by Jack H. Harris, directed by Irvin Yeaworth, and written by Kay Linaker and Theodore Simonson.
The film stars Steve McQueen( in his starring feature film debut, as Steven McQueen) and Aneta Corsaut and co-stars Earl Rowe and Olin Howland.
" The Blob" was distributed by Paramount Pictures as a double feature with" I Married a Monster from Outer Space".
The storyline concerns a growing, corrosive, alien amoeboidal entity that crashes to Earth from outer space inside a meteorite.
It devours and dissolves citizens in the small communities of Phoenixville and Downingtown, PA, growing larger, redder, and more aggressive each time it does so, eventually becoming larger than a building.
Lewis R. Foster
Lewis R. Foster( August 5, 1898 – June 10, 1974) was an American screenwriter, film/ television director, and film/ television producer.
He directed and wrote over one hundred films and television series between 1926 and 1960.
Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.
Beware! The Blob
Beware!
The Blob( a.k.a. Beware the Blob, Son of Blob, Son of the Blob, The Blob II or The Blob Returns) is a 1972 British independent comedy science- fiction horror film.
It is a sequel to" The Blob".
The film was directed by Larry Hagman.
The screenplay was penned by Anthony Harris and Jack Woods III, based on a story by Jack H. Harris and Richard Clair.
The film originally earned a PG rating from the MPAA, though it is now unrated.
Hanro Smitsman
Hanro Smitsman, born in 1967 in Breda( Netherlands), is a writer and director of film and television.
Peter Levin
Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre.
El Paso (film)
El Paso is a 1949 American Cinecolor Western film directed by Lewis R. Foster and starring John Payne, Gail Russell and Sterling Hayden.
Howard W. Koch
Howard Winchel Koch( April 11, 1916 – February 16, 2001) was an American producer and director of film and television.
Brian Johnson (special effects artist)
Brian Johnson( born 1939 or 1940) is a British designer and director of film and television special effects.
Irvin Yeaworth
Irvin Shortess" Shorty" Yeaworth Jr.( February 14, 1926 – July 19, 2004) was a German- born American film director, producer, screenwriter and theme park builder.
He began his career singing at age 10 at KDKA, the world's first radio station in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
He later became a radio producer.
He directed more than 400 films for motivational, educational, and religious purposes, including television specials for evangelist Billy Graham.
As an impresario, he directed the Wayne( Pa.) Concert Series from 1979 to 2003.
However, he is best known for directing the classic film" The Blob" which depicts a growing osmosis alien slime that devours.
In the 1970s he began leading American Christians on tours of Israel and Jordan which he continued to do up until his death.
While in these countries he designed and produced World's Fair and theme park pavilions for local enterprises.
He was married to Jean Yeaworth for 59 years, who worked on most of his films as music supervisor or writer, and together they had five children.
Before he died in a road accident in Amman, he was building a theme park called Jordanian Experience at the Aqaba Gateway in Jordan.
In 2007, The Colonial Theatre in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania( the filming location of the famous" Running Out" scene in" The Blob") honored Irvin Yeaworth and" The Blob" by holding a film contest in which amateur film- makers competed for the" Shorty" award, named after Yeaworth's nickname.

Question: Do director of film The Blob and director of film El Paso (film) have the same nationality?
Answer: yes