Question: Are Sam Mendes and John Rawlins both film directors?

Context articles: Lost Lagoon (film)
Fort Defiance (film)
Air Devils
Nicholas Rawlins
Bangladesh Film Directors Association
John Rawlins (director)
Sam Mendes
Torpedo Boat (film)
Neal Street Productions
Ladies Courageous

Lost Lagoon is a 1958 American drama film directed by John Rawlins and written by Milton Subotsky, John Rawlins and Jeffrey Lynn.
 The film stars Jeffrey Lynn, Lelia Barry, Peter Donat, Don Gibson, Roger Clark and Jane Hartley.
 The film was released on February 1, 1958, by United Artists.
Fort Defiance is a 1951 American Western film directed by John Rawlins and written by Louis Lantz.
 The film stars Dane Clark, Ben Johnson, Peter Graves, Tracey Roberts, George Cleveland and Ralph Sanford.
 The film was released on October 9, 1951, by United Artists.
Air Devils is a 1938 American comedy and action film directed by John Rawlins, based on an original story, "The Fighting Marines" by Harold Buckley.
 The film stars Larry J. Blake, Dick Purcell and Beryl Wallace.
Nicholas Rawlins is a British experimental psychologist.
 He was born in 1949, and was married to the philosopher Susan Hurley from 1986 until her death on 16 August 2007.
 He is the only son of Sir John Rawlins and the grandson of Stuart Rawlins.
 He was educated at Westbury House School and Winchester College before reading for a BA in Psychology, Physiology and Philosophy at University College, Oxford.
 He was awarded first class honours in 1971.
 He subsequently studied for a D.Phil at Oxford under the supervision of Jeffrey Alan Gray.
Bangladesh Film Directors Association is the pan-national trade body of film directors in Bangladesh.
 The Bangladesh Film Directors Association’s General Secretary is Badiul Alam Khokon.
 Mushfiqur Rahman Gulzar is the president of Bangladesh Film Directors Association.
John Rawlins (June 9, 1902 – May 20, 1997) was an American film editor and film director.
 He directed 44 films between 1932 and 1958.
 He was born in Long Beach, California and died in Arcadia, California.
Samuel Alexander Mendes, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born 1 August 1965) is an English stage and film director.
 He is best known for directing the drama film "American Beauty" (1999), which earned him the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Director, the crime film "Road to Perdition" (2002), and the "James Bond" films "Skyfall" (2012) and "Spectre" (2015).
Torpedo Boat is a 1942 American drama film directed by John Rawlins and written by Maxwell Shane.
 The film stars Richard Arlen, Jean Parker, Mary Carlisle, Phillip Terry, Dick Purcell and Ralph Sanford.
 The film was released on January 24, 1948, by Paramount Pictures.
Neal Street Productions is a British film, television and theatre production company.
 The company was set up in 2003 by Sam Mendes, Pippa Harris and Caro Newling.
 Nicolas Brown joined in 2013 to work across the film and TV portfolio.
 The company's movies include "Revolutionary Road", "Jarhead" and "Starter for 10".
 Their TV dramas include the award-winning "Stuart: A Life Backwards" with Tom Hardy and Benedict Cumberbatch, "Penny Dreadful" and "Call the Midwife".
 In theatre Neal Street has produced "The Bridge Project", "Shrek the Musical" and the London West End musical of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", directed by Sam Mendes.
Ladies Courageous (also called Fury in the Sky in a 1950 Realart re-release) is a 1944 war film based on the novel "Looking For Trouble" (1941) by Virginia Spencer Cowles.
 Directed by John Rawlins, the film stars Loretta Young and Geraldine Fitzgerald.
 It tells the story of the paramilitary Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron formed in the United States during World War II.
 Film historians and scholars consider "Ladies Courageous" an "à-clef" story of famed aviator Jacqueline Cochran and test pilot Nancy Harkness Love's work to mobilize women pilots to contribute to the war effort.