Question: Did Pen Densham and Robert Aldrich have the same profession?

Context articles: Houdini (1998 film)
Robert Aldrich
Pen Densham
Jay Aldrich
Don't Mess with Bill (film)
Robert Aldrich (historian)
Space Rangers (TV series)
Michael Luciano
Moll Flanders (1996 film)
The Kiss (1988 film)

Houdini is a 1998 television film about the life of the magician Harry Houdini, directed and written by Pen Densham.
 It stars Johnathon Schaech, Stacy Edwards, Paul Sorvino and David Warner.
 It debuted on the TNT Network in December 1998.
Robert Burgess Aldrich (August 9, 1918 – December 5, 1983) was an American film director, writer and producer, notable for such films as "Vera Cruz" (1954), "Kiss Me Deadly" (1955), "The Big Knife" (1955), "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
" (1962), "Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte" (1964), "The Flight of the Phoenix" (1965), "The Dirty Dozen" (1967) and "The Longest Yard" (1974).
Pen Densham (born 14 October 1947, Ruislip, Middlesex, United Kingdom) is a British-Canadian-American film and television writer, producer, director and author, known for writing and producing films such as "" and television revivals of "The Outer Limits" and "The Twilight Zone", as well as writing, producing and directing MGM's "Moll Flanders".
Jay Robert Aldrich (born April 14, 1961) is a former Major League Baseball player who pitched for the Milwaukee Brewers, Atlanta Braves and the Baltimore Orioles.
 He attended Montclair State University.
 In 1995, Aldrich signed on as a replacement player for the Pittsburgh Pirates before the resolution of the player's strike.
Don't Mess with Bill is a 1980 American short documentary film about Canadian martial arts pioneer Bill Underwood, produced by Pen Densham.
 It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.
Robert Aldrich (born July 29, 1954, in New York) is an Australian historian and writer.
 Aldrich is a Professor of European History, he teaches and researches modern European and colonial history, including the history of France since the Revolution, the history of the French and British overseas empires, the history of 'sites of memory' and the history of gender and sexuality.
Space Rangers is an American futuristic science fiction drama.
 The series aired on CBS in 1993.
 The show was created by Pen Densham and Trilogy Entertainment Group.
Michael Luciano (May 2, 1909 – September 15, 1992) was an American film and television editor with about forty feature film credits and many additional credits for television programs.
 From 1954 to 1977, Luciano edited 20 (nearly all) of the films directed, and often produced, by Robert Aldrich.
 Aldrich was a prolific and independent maker of popular films "who depicted corruption and evil unflinchingly, and pushed limits on violence throughout his career."
 Their early collaboration, the film noir "Kiss Me Deadly" (1955), was entered into the US National Film Registry in 1999; the unusual editing of the film has been noted by several critics.
 Luciano's work with Aldrich was recognized by four Academy Award nominations, for "Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte" (1964), "The Flight of the Phoenix" (1965), "The Dirty Dozen" (1967), and "The Longest Yard" (1974).
 The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences never recognized Aldrich himself.
Moll Flanders is a 1996 film starring Robin Wright and Morgan Freeman.
 The film was directed by Pen Densham.
 The original music score was composed by Mark Mancina.
 The film is based on the novel of the same name by Daniel Defoe.
The Kiss is a 1988 American horror film directed by Pen Densham and starring Joanna Pacula and Meredith Salenger.
 The plot follows two young women who find themselves haunted by an ancient parasitic curse that was passed on to one of them by a kiss.
 Film critics and historians have claimed the film to be an allegory of the AIDS epidemic of the late 1980s.