Question: Who was the director of the 1989 comedy film starring the actor who played Andy Dufresne in the prison drama film "The Shawshank Redemption"?

Context articles: The Shawshank Redemption (soundtrack)
William Sadler (actor)
The Shawshank Redemption
Prison film
Ohio State Reformatory
Morgan Freeman
Miss Firecracker
Bob Gunton
Frank Darabont
Tim Robbins

The Shawshank Redemption is the original soundtrack of the 1994 film "The Shawshank Redemption" starring Morgan Freeman, Tim Robbins, Bob Gunton, William Sadler, Clancy Brown, and others.
William Thomas Sadler (born April 13, 1950) is an American film and television actor.
 His television and motion picture roles have included Lewis Burwell "Chesty" Puller in "The Pacific", in "", Sheriff Jim Valenti in "Roswell", convict Heywood in "The Shawshank Redemption", Senator Vernon Trent in "Hard To Kill", and the Grim Reaper in "Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey", a role for which he won the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor, and his role as Colonel Stuart opposite Bruce Willis in "Die Hard 2".
 He played the character of President of the United States, Matthew Ellis, in "Iron Man 3", in "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.", and in "WHIH Newsfront", and recurs as Steve McGarrett's murdered father in the latter-day 2000's remake of "Hawaii Five-O".
 In 2015, Sadler had an appearance in the TV series "Z Nation".
The Shawshank Redemption is a 1994 American drama film written and directed by Frank Darabont, and based on the Stephen King novella "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption".
 The film tells the story of banker Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins), who is sentenced to life in Shawshank State Penitentiary for the murder of his wife and her lover, despite his claims of innocence.
 Over the following two decades, he befriends contraband smuggler Ellis "Red" Redding (Morgan Freeman), and becomes instrumental in a money laundering operation led by warden Samuel Norton (Bob Gunton).
 The film also stars William Sadler, Clancy Brown, Gil Bellows, and James Whitmore.
A prison film is a film genre concerned with prison life and often prison escape.
 These films range from acclaimed dramas examining the nature of prisons, such as "Cool Hand Luke", "Midnight Express", "Brubaker", "Escape from Alcatraz", "The Shawshank Redemption", and "Kiss of the Spider Woman" to actioners like "Lock Up" and "Undisputed", and even comedies satirizing the genre like "Stir Crazy", "Life", and "Let's Go To Prison".
The Ohio State Reformatory (OSR), also known as the Mansfield Reformatory, is a historic prison located in Mansfield, Ohio in the United States.
 It was built between 1886 and 1910 and remained in operation until 1990, when a United States Federal Court ruling (the 'Boyd Consent Decree') ordered the facility to be closed.
 While this facility was used in a number of films (including several while the facility was still in operation), TV shows and music videos, it was made famous by the film "The Shawshank Redemption" (1994) when it was used for the majority of the movie.
Morgan Freeman (born June 1, 1937) is an American actor, producer and narrator.
 Freeman won an Academy Award in 2005 for Best Supporting Actor with "Million Dollar Baby" (2004), and he has received Oscar nominations for his performances in "Street Smart" (1987), "Driving Miss Daisy" (1989), "The Shawshank Redemption" (1994) and "Invictus" (2009).
 He has also won a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award.
Miss Firecracker is a 1989 comedy film directed by Thomas Schlamme.
 It stars Holly Hunter, Mary Steenburgen, Tim Robbins, Alfre Woodard, and Scott Glenn.
 The film, set in Yazoo City, Mississippi, was written by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Beth Henley and is based on her 1984 play, "The Miss Firecracker Contest".
Robert Patrick Gunton Jr. (born November 15, 1945) is an American actor.
 He is known for playing strict, authoritarian characters, with his best known roles as Warden Samuel Norton in the 1994 prison film "The Shawshank Redemption", Chief George Earle in 1993's "Demolition Man", Dr. Walcott, the domineering dean of Virginia Medical School in "Patch Adams", and President Juan Peron in the original Broadway production of "Evita", for which he received a Tony Award nomination.
 He also appears in the "Daredevil" TV series as Leland Owlsley.
Frank Árpád Darabont (born Darabont Ferenc Árpád; January 28, 1959) is a French-Hungarian-American film director, screenwriter and producer who has been nominated for three Academy Awards and a Golden Globe Award.
 In his early career he was primarily a screenwriter for horror films such as "", "The Blob" and "The Fly II".
 As a director he is known for his film adaptations of Stephen King novellas and novels such as "The Shawshank Redemption", "The Green Mile", and "The Mist".
Timothy Francis Robbins (born October 16, 1958) is an American actor, screenwriter, director, producer, activist and musician.
 He is well known for his portrayal of Andy Dufresne in the prison drama film "The Shawshank Redemption" (1994).