William Desmond Taylor
William Desmond Taylor (born William Cunningham Deane-Tanner, 26 April 1872 – 1 February 1922) was an Anglo-Irish-American director and actor.
A popular figure in the growing Hollywood motion picture colony of the 1910s and early 1920s, he directed 59 silent films between 1914 and 1922 and acted in 27 between 1913 and 1915.
Taylor's murder on 1 February 1922, along with other Hollywood scandals, such as the Roscoe Arbuckle trial, led to a frenzy of sensationalist and often fabricated newspaper reports.
The murder remains an official cold case.
Brian Johnson (special effects artist)
Brian Johnson( born 1939 or 1940) is a British designer and director of film and television special effects.
William Berke
William A. Berke( October 3, 1903 – February 15, 1958) was an American film director, producer and screenwriter.
He directed nearly 90 films between 1934 and 1958.
He also produced nearly 80 films between 1933 and 1958.
He was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and died in Los Angeles, California.
Richard Fleischer later recalled Berke" was known as King of the B's.
For years and years he had made nothing but pictures with ten or twelve day shooting schedules, minuscule budgets of about$ 100,000 and no stars.
Without bothering with editing or any postproduction chores and with short shooting schedules, he was able to squeeze in eight or ten pictures a year.
And he was going nuts".
According to Fleischer, Berke eventually pestered RKO executives enough to be assigned an A picture with a long shooting schedule and stars and he still shot it in twelve days.
The Parson of Panamint (1916 film)
The Parson of Panamint is a lost 1916 American Western silent film directed by William Desmond Taylor and written by Julia Crawford Ivers and Peter B. Kyne.
The film stars Dustin Farnum, Winifred Kingston, Pomeroy Cannon, Howard Davies, Colin Chase and Ogden Crane.
The film was released on September 3, 1916, by Paramount Pictures.
Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.
Highway 13 (film)
Highway 13 is a 1948 American film directed by William Berke and starring Robert Lowery.
Lowery had just made" Shep Comes Home" for financier Robert L. Lippert.
Hanro Smitsman
Hanro Smitsman, born in 1967 in Breda( Netherlands), is a writer and director of film and television.
The Parson of Panamint (1941 film)
The Parson of Panamint is a 1941 American drama film directed by William C. McGann and written by Adrian Scott and Harold Shumate.
The film stars Charlie Ruggles, Ellen Drew, Phillip Terry, Joseph Schildkraut, Porter Hall and Henry Kolker.
The film was released on July 25, 1941, by Paramount Pictures.
Peter Levin
Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre.
Howard W. Koch
Howard Winchel Koch( April 11, 1916 – February 16, 2001) was an American producer and director of film and television.

Question: Are director of film Highway 13 (Film) and director of film The Parson Of Panamint (1916 Film) both from the same country?
Answer: yes