Question: Are both John Roecker and Michael Gordon stage actors?

Context articles: Live Freaky! Die Freaky!
Nadigar Sangam
British Actors Film Company
Tangled Lives
Michael Gordon (film director)
Jim the Penman (1915 film)
Judith Anderson
George Gaul
Youssef Wahbi
John Roecker

Live Freaky Die Freaky is a stop motion-animated, musical independent film directed by John Roecker.
 It is a black comedy based on the Charles Manson murders.
 It premiered on DVD in the United States on January 17, 2006 and played in a few theatres on January 20, 27 and 28.
The Nadigar Sangam (English: Actors' association ), officially known as the South Indian Artistes' Association (SIAA), is a union for film, television, and stage actors in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, based in Chennai.
 Formed in 1952, the group has a charitable trust fund to provide pension to retired actors, voiced support for actors caught in controversy, and have collectively protested socio-political issues.
The British Actors Film Company was a British film production company that operated between 1916 and 1923 during the Silent era.
 It involved a consortium of prominent stage actors that included figures such as A.E. Matthews and Leslie Howard.
 The actors often exchanged their salaries for a share of the profits.
 Many of its films were made at Bushey Studios to the north of London.
Tangled Lives is a 1917 American silent drama film produced and distributed by the Fox Film Corporation.
 The film was directed by J. Gordon Edwards and starred husband and wife stage actors Genevieve Hamper and Robert B. Mantell.
Michael Gordon (born Irving Kunin Gordon; September 6, 1909 – April 29, 1993) was an American stage actor and stage and film director.
Jim the Penman is a 1915 silent film crime drama produced by the Famous Players Film Company and released through Paramount Pictures.
 It was the first movie based on a well-known stage play, "Jim the Penman" by Charles Lawrence Young, about a forger in Victorian Britain.
 The film was directed by Edwin S. Porter and starred stage actor John B. Mason, in his debut film, in line with Adolph Zukor's efforts to recruit famous stage actors for films.
 Co-starring with Mason was the young up-and-coming favorite Harold Lockwood.
 Mason had played the part on the stage in the 1910 season on Broadway.
Dame Judith Anderson, AC, DBE (born Frances Margaret Anderson; 10 February 18973 January 1992) was an Australian-born British actress who had a successful career in stage, film and television.
 A preeminent stage actress in her era, she won two Emmy Awards and a Tony Award and was also nominated for a Grammy Award and an Academy Award.
 She is considered one of the 20th-century's greatest classical stage actors.
George Gaul (September 22, 1885 – October 6, 1939) was an American stage actor in the first half of the 20th century.
 Gaul never appeared in motion pictures but was one America's most successful stage actors in the 1920s.
 He was born in Philadelphia to John Gall and his wife Rebecca (née Baxter).
 He was educated at Lawrenceville Preparatory School in Lawrenceville, New Jersey and made his Broadway debut in 1909.
 Over the course of his career he toured with Billie Burke, Otis Skinner and Charles Coburn.
 In the 1920s he appeared in the Theatre Guild's "The S.S. Tenacity" and "Back to Methuselah".
 He's best remembered for originating the part of Chico in the original Broadway production of "Seventh Heaven" in 1922.
 One of his last plays was Eugene O'Neill's "Dynamo"(1929).
 Gaul made his last stage appearance in 1932.
Youssef Wahbi (Arabic: يوسف وهبي‎ ‎ Turkish: "Yusuf Vehbi" ) (July 14, 1898 – October 17, 1982) was an Egyptian stage and film actor and director, a leading star of the 1930s and 1940s and one of the most prominent Egyptian stage actors of any era, who also served on the jury of the Cannes Film Festival in 1946.
 He was born to a high state official in Egypt but renounced his family's wealth and traveled to Rome in the 1920s to study theatre.
 Besides his stage work, he acted in about 50 films, starting with "Awlad al-Zawat" ("Sons of Aristocrats"; 1932) to "Iskanderiya... lih?"
 ("Alexandria... Why?"
, 1978).
 He died, sick with arthritis and with a fractured pelvis, survived by his wife.
John Roecker is an independent filmmaker who is associated with the punk subculture.
 He currently resides in Los Angeles, California.
 Roecker is probably best known for "Live Freaky!
 Die Freaky!
", a stop motion animated comedy based on the true crime book "Helter Skelter".