Question: Who started his career in film first, Alex Proyas or Alexander Mackendrick?

Context articles: Alex Proyas
Jon Gustafsson
The Devil's Disciple (1959 film)
The Man in the White Suit
Sweet Smell of Success
Mandy (film)
Dark City (1998 film)
Whisky Galore! (1949 film)
Don't Make Waves
Alexander Mackendrick

Alexander "Alex" Proyas ( ; born 23 September 1963) is an Australian film director, screenwriter, and producer.
 Proyas is best known for directing the films "The Crow" (1994), "Dark City" (1998), "I, Robot" (2004), "Knowing" (2009), and "Gods of Egypt" (2016).
Jon Gustafsson is an Iceland born film director.
 The Icelandic spelling of his name is Jón Gústafsson.
 Best known for directing the Canadian documentary film Wrath of Gods, starring Gerard Butler, Wendy Ord, Sarah Polley, Paul Stephens and Sturla Gunnarsson.
 He grew up in Iceland where he started his career as a television performer before studying filmmaking at Manchester Polytechnic and directing for film and theatre at CalArts where he was mentored by the legendary Ealing Studios director Alexander Mackendrick.
 Wrath of Gods was his second documentary for CBC Newsworld, the first one was The Importance of Being Icelandic.
 He immigrated to Canada where he directed the low-budget feature film Kanadiana and the music video Brighter Hell for the Canadian rock band The Watchmen.
 In 2011 Jon Gustafsson produced the award winning short film In A Heartbeat, directed by Karolina Lewicka, through his production company Artio Films.
The Devil's Disciple is a 1959 film adaptation of the 1897 George Bernard Shaw play "The Devil's Disciple".
 The Anglo-American film was directed by Guy Hamilton, who replaced Alexander Mackendrick, and starred Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas and Laurence Olivier.
 Mary Grant designed the film's costumes.
The Man In The White Suit is a 1951 science-fiction satirical comedy film made by Ealing Studios.
 It starred Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood and Cecil Parker and was directed by Alexander Mackendrick.
 The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Writing (Screenplay) for Roger MacDougall, John Dighton and Alexander Mackendrick (who was a cousin of Roger MacDougall).
Sweet Smell of Success is a 1957 American film noir made by Hecht-Hill-Lancaster Productions and released by United Artists.
 It was directed by Alexander Mackendrick and stars Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Susan Harrison and Martin Milner.
 The screenplay was written by Clifford Odets, Ernest Lehman and Mackendrick from the novelette by Lehman.
 Mary Grant designed the film's costumes.
Mandy is a 1952 British film about a family's struggle to give their deaf daughter a better life.
 It was directed by Alexander Mackendrick and is based on the novel "The Day Is Ours" by Hilda Lewis.
 It stars Phyllis Calvert, Jack Hawkins and Terence Morgan, and features the first film appearance by Jane Asher.
 In the US the film was released as The Story of Mandy, later also distributed as Crash of Silence.
Dark City is a 1998 American-Australian neo-noir science fiction film directed by Alex Proyas.
 The screenplay was written by Proyas, Lem Dobbs and David S. Goyer.
 The film stars Rufus Sewell, Kiefer Sutherland, Jennifer Connelly, and William Hurt.
 Sewell plays John Murdoch, an amnesiac man who finds himself suspected of murder.
 Murdoch attempts to discover his true identity and clear his name while on the run from the police and a mysterious group known only as the "Strangers".
Whisky Galore!
 is a 1949 British comedy film produced by Ealing Studios starring Basil Radford, Bruce Seton, Joan Greenwood and Gordon Jackson.
 It was the directorial debut of Alexander Mackendrick; the screenplay was by Compton MacKenzie, based on his 1947 novel "Whisky Galore".
 The storybased on a true eventconcerns a shipwreck off a fictional Scottish island, the inhabitants of which have run out of whisky; the islanders find out the ship is carrying 50,000 cases of whisky, which they salvage, against the opposition of the local Customs and Excise men.
Don't Make Waves is a 1967 American sex farce (with elements of the beach party genre) starring Tony Curtis, Claudia Cardinale, Dave Draper and Sharon Tate.
 Distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the film was directed by Alexander Mackendrick and is based on the 1959 novel "Muscle Beach", by Ira Wallach, who also wrote the screenplay.
Alexander Mackendrick (September 8, 1912 – December 22, 1993) was an American born Scottish director and teacher.
 He was born in Boston, Massachusetts and later moved to Scotland.
 He began making television commercials before moving into post-production editing and directing films, most notably for Ealing Studios where his films include "Whisky Galore!
" (1949), "The Man in the White Suit" (1951), and "The Ladykillers" (1955).