George V. Higgins
George V. Higgins (November 13, 1939 – November 6, 1999) was an American author, lawyer, newspaper columnist, raconteur and college professor.
He authored 29 books, including "Bomber's Law,Trust" and "Kennedy for the Defense" and is best known for his bestselling crime novels, including "The Friends of Eddie Coyle", which established the Boston noir genre of gangster tales that spawned several popular films by followers in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
The Friends at the Margherita Cafe
The Friends at the Margherita Cafe( also known as" The Friends of Bar Margherita") is a 2009 Italian comedy- drama film directed by Pupi Avati.
The Friends of Eddie Coyle
The Friends of Eddie Coyle is a 1973 American neo- noir crime film directed by Peter Yates and starring Robert Mitchum and Peter Boyle.
The screenplay by Paul Monash was adapted from the 1970 novel of the same name by George V. Higgins.
The film tells the story of Eddie Coyle( Mitchum), a small- time member of the Irish Mob in Boston, Massachusetts.
Critical reception was positive, with particular praise for Mitchum's performance.
Peter Yates
Peter James Yates( 24 July 1929 – 9 January 2011) was an English film director and producer.
He was born in Aldershot, Hampshire.
Diarmuid Hegarty (Griffith College)
Diarmuid Hegarty BComm LLB is the President of Griffith College Ireland.
He is also Chairman of the Friends of the Vocal Arts.
Querelle
Querelle is a 1982 West German- French English- language drama film directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and starring Brad Davis, adapted from French author Jean Genet's 1947 novel" Querelle of Brest".
It marked Fassbinder's final film as a writer/ director; it was posthumously released just months after the director died of a drug overdose in June 1982.
Ashbel Green (editor)
Ashbel Green( 1928–2013) was a senior editor and vice president at Alfred A. Knopf.
He spearheaded the publishing of over 500 books including," The Friends of Eddie Coyle" and" A Reporter's Life"( Walter Cronkite autobiography).
He was the namesake and descendant of Ashbel Green, a Presbyterian minister.
Wings of Danger
Wings of Danger, released in the United States as Dead on Course, is a 1952 British crime film directed by Terence Fisher and starring Zachary Scott, Robert Beatty and Kay Kendall.
The screenplay concerns a pilot who is suspected of smuggling.
Terence Fisher
Terence Fisher( 23 February 1904 – 18 June 1980) was a British film director best known for his work for Hammer Films.
He was the first to bring gothic horror alive in full colour, and the sexual overtones and explicit horror in his films, while mild by modern standards, were unprecedented in his day.
His first major gothic horror film was" The Curse of Frankenstein"( 1957), which launched Hammer's association with the genre and made British actors Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee leading horror stars of the era.
He went on to film several adaptations of classic horror subjects, including" Dracula"( 1958)," The Mummy"( 1959), and" The Curse of the Werewolf"( 1961).
Given their subject matter and lurid approach, Fisher's films, though commercially successful, were largely dismissed by critics during his career.
It is only in recent years that Fisher has become recognised as an" auteur" in his own right.
His most famous films are characterised by a blend of fairytale myth and the supernatural alongside themes of sexuality, morality, and ‘ the charm of evil ’.
Drawing heavily on a Christian conservative outlook, there is often a hero who defeats the powers of darkness by a combination of faith in God and reason, in contrast to other characters, who are either blindly superstitious or bound by cold, godless rationalism.
For detailed discussions of Fisher's work, see" Terence Fisher: Horror, Myth, and Religion" by Paul Leggett( McFarland and Co, 2002)," British Film Makers: Terence Fisher" by Peter Hutchings( Manchester University Press, 2013), and" The Films of Terence Fisher: Hammer Horror and Beyond" by Wheeler Winston Dixon( Auteur Publishing, 2017).
Rulman Merswin
Rulman Merswin( c. 1307- 1382) was a German mystic, leader for a time of the Friends of God.

Question: Which film has the director died earlier, Wings Of Danger or The Friends Of Eddie Coyle?
Answer: Wings Of Danger