Question: What country of origin does Smitty and Louis Gossett Jr. have in common?

Context articles: Iron Eagle
Louis Gossett Jr.
Companions in Nightmare
An Officer and a Gentleman
Smitty (film)
The Punisher (1989 film)
The Powers of Matthew Star
20th International Emmy Awards
Roots: The Gift
Sadat (miniseries)

Iron Eagle is a 1986 Metrocolor American-Canadian action film directed by Sidney J. Furie and starring Jason Gedrick and Louis Gossett, Jr. While it received mixed reviews, the film earned US$24,159,872 at the U.S. box office.
 "Iron Eagle" was followed by three sequels: "Iron Eagle II", "" and "Iron Eagle on the Attack", with Gossett being the only actor to have appeared in all four films.
Louis Cameron Gossett Jr. (born May 27, 1936) is an American actor.
 He is best known for his role as Gunnery Sergeant Emil Foley in the 1982 film "An Officer and a Gentleman", and his role as Fiddler in the 1977 ABC television miniseries "Roots".
 Gossett has also starred in numerous film productions including "A Raisin In The Sun," "The Landlord," "Skin Game", "Travels with My Aunt", "The Laughing Policeman", "The Deep", "Jaws 3-D" (1983), Wolfgang Petersen's "Enemy Mine", the "Iron Eagle" series, "Toy Soldiers" and "The Punisher", in an acting career that spans over five decades.
Companions in Nightmare is a 1968 crime-drama film.
 It had early roles for Louis Gossett Jr. and Bettye Ackerman, and it also starred Gig Young, Melvyn Douglas, Patrick O'Neal and Leslie Nielsen.
An Officer and a Gentleman is a 1982 American romantic drama film starring Richard Gere, Debra Winger and Louis Gossett, Jr., who won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the film.
 It tells the story of Zack (Gere), a U.S. Navy Aviation Officer Candidate who is beginning his training at Aviation Officer Candidate School.
 While Zack meets his first true girlfriend during his training, a local young woman named Paula (Winger), he also comes into conflict with the hard-driving Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant (Gossett, Jr.), the drill instructor training his class.
Smitty is a 2012 American family drama film directed by David Mickey Evans and starring Mira Sorvino, Peter Fonda and Louis Gossett Jr..
The Punisher is a 1989 Australian-American action film directed by Mark Goldblatt, written by Boaz Yakin, and starring Dolph Lundgren and Louis Gossett, Jr. Based on the Marvel Comics' character of the same name, the film changes many details of the character's comic book origin and the main character does not wear the trademark "skull" shirt.
 Shot in Sydney, Australia, "The Punisher" co-stars Jeroen Krabbé, Kim Miyori, Nancy Everhard, and Barry Otto.
The Powers of Matthew Star is an American sci-fi television series that aired from September 17, 1982 through April 8, 1983, on NBC.
 It starred Peter Barton as the title character, alien prince Matthew ‘E’Hawke’ Star of the planet Quadris.
 Also starring were Amy Steel as Pam Elliot, Matthew’s girlfriend at Crestridge High, and Louis Gossett Jr. as Matthew’s guardian Walt ‘D’hai’ Shepherd.
The 20th International Emmy Awards took place in November 23, 1992, at the Sheraton New York.
 The Award ceremony was hosted by Louis Gossett Jr. and María Conchita Alonso, and televised in November 29, 1992, by PBS.
Roots: The Gift is a 1988 television film.
 It is the third installment of the "Roots" series, which traces the maternal family history of African American author Alex Haley, starting with his fourth great-grandfather Kunta Kinte.
 The film premiered on ABC on 11 December 1988, with AT&T as the sole national sponsor for the broadcast.
 LeVar Burton and Louis Gossett Jr. reprise their respective roles of Kunta Kinte and Fiddler.
 The film takes place between the second and third episodes of the original "Roots" miniseries.
Sadat is a 1983 American two-part, four-hour television miniseries based on the life and death of the late 3rd President of Egypt, Anwar Sadat starring Louis Gossett Jr. as Sadat and Madolyn Smith as Sadat's wife, Jehan.
 It was distributed by Columbia Pictures Television through Operation Prime Time.
 Gossett's performance earned him a nomination for an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award.