Robert Van Lewing
Robert Van Lewing( March 27,
1921- December 17, 1983) was an American bank robber and listed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list from 1966- 1967.
A long time career criminal, Lewing's criminal record included prior arrests and convictions on a number of armed robbery charges before being officially added as the 226th fugitive to the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list on January 12, 1966.
In March 1966, entered a St. Louis bank and, threatening the bank teller with a pistol, escaped with$ 2,456.
After being identified by three eyewitnesses, Lewing fled St. Louis but he remained in Missouri.
Eventually traced to Kansas City, Lewing was arrested by FBI agents on February 6, 1967 and later convicted of several federal bank robbery charges.
Charles Guggenheim
Charles Eli Guggenheim( March 31, 1924 – October 9, 2002) was an American film director and producer.
The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery
The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery( also called The St. Louis Bank Robbery, the film title in the opening credits) is a 1959 heist film, directed by Charles Guggenheim and starring Steve McQueen as a college dropout hired to be the getaway driver in a bank robbery.
Based on a 1953 bank robbery attempt of Southwest Bank in St. Louis, the film was shot on location in 1958 with some of the men and women from the St. Louis Police Department, as well as local residents and bank employees, playing the same parts they did in the actual robbery attempt.
Steve McQueen was quite unknown when filming began, because he would get the role of Josh Randall in the TV series" Wanted Dead or Alive" only some months later.
American Heist
American Heist is a 2014 crime drama film directed by Russian director Sarik Andreasyan, based on the 1959 film" The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery" directed by Charles Guggenheim and John Stix.
The film stars Hayden Christensen, Jordana Brewster, Adrien Brody and Akon.
It had its world premiere in the Special Presentations section of the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival on September 11, 2014, and was released theatrically in Canada on July 24, 2015, by Mongrel Media.
Fred William Bowerman
Fred William Bowerman( January 8, 1893 – May 1, 1953) was an American bank robber and Depression- era outlaw.
A veteran holdup man, his criminal career lasted over 30 years and he was placed on the FBI's" Ten Most Wanted" list in 1953.
That same year, his last, Bowerman organized and led the disastrous Southwest Bank holdup in St. Louis, Missouri, which resulted in a standoff between himself and his three partners against a force of over 100 officers of the St. Louis Police Department.
The events were later made into a film," The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery"( 1959), starring Crahan Denton and Steve McQueen.
Frederick George Holweck
Frederick George Holweck( born Friedrich Georg Holweck; 29 December 1856 –15 February 1927) was a German- American Roman Catholic parish priest and scholar, hagiographer and church historian.
Monsignor Holweck contributed a number of articles to the" Catholic Encyclopedia".
As rector of St. Francis de Sales Church in St. Louis, Missouri, he was tasked with rebuilding the church after the original was destroyed by the great St. Louis Tornado of 1896.
The second edifice, incorporating many of the characteristics of German ecclesiastical architecture is familiarly known as" the Cathedral of south St. Louis".
He also served as vicar- general of the Archdiocese of St. Louis.
Leo Felton
Leo Vincelette Felton( born 1970, Silver Spring, Maryland) is an American white supremacist who was convicted of bank robbery and plotting to build a bomb in Boston.
He is an Odinist.
Jack Conway (filmmaker)
Jack Ryan Conway (July 17, 1887 – October 11, 1952) was an American film director and film producer, as well as an actor of many films in the first half of the 20th century.
A Teapicker's Song of Goodbye
The production company being Toho Co, Ltd have also distributed another film called'A Farewell to the Woman Called My Sister'- which was also released at the same time as'A Teapicker's Song of Goodbye'.
This movie was also a black and white film.
Lombardi, Ltd.
Lombardi, Ltd.( also sometimes styled" Lombardi Limited" in publicity materials) is a surviving 1919 American silent feature comedy film.
It was adapted by June Mathis from a 1917 play of the same name by Frederick and Fanny Hatton, and directed by Jack Conway.
Warner Baxter had an early uncredited minor role in the film.

Question: Do both films Lombardi, Ltd. and The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery have the directors that share the same nationality?
Answer: yes