Question: Who directed a 1980 American biographical black-and-white sports drama film, that had a French-born American film editor who has worked with the director for over forty years, edit all the films? 

Context articles: Richard A. Harris
Million Dollar Arm
Raging Bull
John F. Link Sr.
James B. Clark (director)
Craig Alpert
Rudi Fehr
Michael Kahn (film editor)
Thelma Schoonmaker
Peter Cowie

Richard A. Harris is an American film editor with a career spanning nearly forty years.
 He graduated from the School of Cinematic Arts of the University of Southern California in 1956.
Million Dollar Arm is a 2014 American biographical sports drama film directed by Craig Gillespie and produced by Walt Disney Pictures from a screenplay written by Thomas McCarthy.
 The film is based on the true story of baseball pitchers Rinku Singh and Dinesh Patel who were discovered by sports agent J. B. Bernstein after winning a reality show competition.
Raging Bull is a 1980 American biographical black-and-white sports drama film directed by Martin Scorsese, produced by Robert Chartoff and Irwin Winkler and adapted by Paul Schrader and Mardik Martin from Jake LaMotta's memoir "".
 It stars Robert De Niro as Jake LaMotta, an Italian American middleweight boxer whose self-destructive and obsessive rage, sexual jealousy, and animalistic appetite destroyed his relationship with his wife and family.
 Also featured in the film are Joe Pesci as Joey, LaMotta's well-intentioned brother and manager who tries to help Jake battle his inner demons, and Cathy Moriarty as his wife.
 The film features supporting roles from Nicholas Colasanto, Theresa Saldana, and Frank Vincent.
John F. Link Sr. (March 22, 1901 – April 8, 1968) was an Oscar-nominated American film editor from the 1930s through the 1960s.
 Born in Alabama on March 22, 1901, he began editing in 1930.
 He began editing film shorts, and from 1930-32 he edited almost 20.
 Link was given his first opportunity to edit a feature film in 1932, with "Carnival Boat", directed by Albert Rogell, and starring Bill Boyd and Ginger Rogers.
 In his 30-year career, he would edit over 30 films, with the highlight of his career would be the 1943 classic, "For Whom the Bell Tolls", starring Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman.
 Link, along with co-editor Sherman Todd, received an Academy Award nomination for their work on this film.
James B. Clark, Jr. (May 14, 1908 – July 19, 2000) was an American film director, film editor, and television director.
 His career as a film editor began in 1937, and he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing in 1941 for "How Green Was My Valley".
 He continued to work as a film editor until 1960, but in 1955 also began a career as a film and television director.
 He tended to focus on works involving people's relationships with animals.
 Among the more popular and notable projects he directed were the films "A Dog of Flanders" (1959), "The Sad Horse" (1959), "Misty" (1961), "Flipper" (1963), "Island of the Blue Dolphins" (1964), and "My Side of the Mountain" (1969), and episodes of the television series "My Friend Flicka" (1955-1956), "Batman" (1966-1967), and "Lassie" (1969-1971).
Craig Alpert is an American film editor.
 Alpert began his career as an assistant editor at Pixar, where he worked on films such as "Toy Story 2".
 He then worked as an assistant editor on "The Matrix Reloaded", "Hulk", "Meet the Fockers", and as an additional editor on "The 40 Year Old Virgin", and "".
 Alpert has since gone on to edit several high-profile comedy films.
Rudolf “Rudi” Fehr, A.C.E. (July 6, 1911 – April 16, 1999) was a German-born, American film editor and studio executive.
 He had more than thirty credits as an editor of feature films including "Key Largo" (1946), "Dial M for Murder" (1954), and "Prizzi's Honor" (1985).
 He worked for more than forty years for the Warner Brothers film studio, where he was the Head of Post-production from 1955 through 1976.
 Fehr was instrumental in establishing the 1967 "sister city" connection between Los Angeles and Berlin, which he had fled in the 1930s.
Michael Kahn (born December 8, 1935) is an American film editor.
 His credits range from TV's "Hogan's Heroes" to feature films directed by George C. Scott ("The Savage is Loose") and Steven Spielberg, with whom he has had an extended, notable collaboration for over forty years.
Thelma Colbert Schoonmaker (born January 3, 1940) is a French-born American film editor who has worked with director Martin Scorsese for over forty years.
 She started working with Scorsese on his debut feature film "Who's That Knocking at My Door" (1967), and edited all of Scorsese's films since "Raging Bull" (1980).
 Schoonmaker has received seven Academy Award nominations for Best Film Editing, and has won three times—for "Raging Bull" (1980), "The Aviator" (2004), and "The Departed" (2006).
Peter Cowie (born 24 December 1939) is a film historian and author of more than thirty books on film.
 In 1963 he was the founder/publisher and general editor of the annual "International Film Guide", a survey of worldwide film production, which he continued to edit for forty years.
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