Question: Which director was born first, John D. Hancock or Richard Rush?

Context articles: John D. Hancock
Mary Louise Hancock
The Stunt Man
A Man Called Dagger
USRC Rush (1885)
Racking focus
Richard Rush
Richard Rush (director)
Jae Head
Hancock and Joan

John D. Hancock (born February 12, 1939) is an American stage and film director, producer and writer.
 He is perhaps best known for his work on "Bang the Drum Slowly".
 Hancock's theatrical work includes direction of both classic and contemporary plays, from Shakespeare to Saul Bellow.
Mary Louise Hancock (born July 5, 1920) is a retired New Hampshire state senator, former New Hampshire State Planning Director and has been called the 'Grand Dame' and the 'Queen Bee' of New Hampshire politics.
 She is a long term resident of New Hampshire's capital city of Concord and was the first woman to be elected senator from the state's 15th district.
 She received both the Robert Frost Award and the Susan B. Anthony Award.
 She has received honorary degrees from Keene State College as well as Notre Dame College of New Hampshire.
 Ms. Hancock is a distant relative of famed revolutionary John Hancock.
The Stunt Man is a 1980 American film directed by Richard Rush, starring Peter O'Toole, Steve Railsback, and Barbara Hershey.
 The movie was adapted by Lawrence B. Marcus and Rush from the 1970 novel of the same name by Paul Brodeur.
 It tells the story of a young fugitive who hides as a stunt double on the set of an anti-war movie whose charismatic director will do seemingly anything for the sake of his art.
A Man Called Dagger (1968) is a low-budget spy film that was the first collaboration between director Richard Rush, cinematographer László Kovács and stuntman Gary Warner Kent (who also did the film's special effects).
USRC "Rush" was a Revenue Cutter named for Richard Rush, eighth Secretary of the Treasury.
 She was a replacement for the USRC "Rush" (1874) and was much larger, but re-used the engine from the first "Rush".
 She was completed in November 1885.
 In January 1886, soon after commissioning, she was assigned to search for the whaler "Amethyst", last seen in the Bering Sea the previous October.
A rack focus in filmmaking and television production is the practice of changing the focus of the lens during a shot.
 The term can refer to small or large changes of focus.
 If the focus is shallow, then the technique becomes more noticeable.
 In professional films, a camera assistant called a focus puller is responsible for rack focusing.
 In his documentary film, "The Sinister Saga of Making "The Stunt Man"" the director Richard Rush claims he developed the technique in the 1960s.
 In the commentary to the TV series "Firefly", visual effects supervisor Loni Peristere comments that rack focus has been taboo in recent cinematography because such shots cannot be "repaired" in post production.
Richard Rush (August 29, 1780 – July 30, 1859) was the 8th United States Attorney General and the 8th United States Secretary of the Treasury.
 He also served as John Quincy Adams's running mate on the National Republican ticket in 1828.
Richard Rush (born April 15, 1929 in New York, New York) is an American movie director, scriptwriter, and producer.
 He is best known for the Oscar-nominated "The Stunt Man".
 His other works, however, have been less celebrated.
 The next best-known of his movies is "Color of Night" — also nominated, but in this case for the Golden Raspberry Award.
 Rush also directed "Freebie and the Bean", an over-the-top police buddy comedy/drama starring Alan Arkin and James Caan.
 He co-wrote the screenplay for the 1990 movie "Air America".
Jae Head (born December 27, 1996) is an American teen actor.
 He is best known for portraying Sean Junior (S.J.) Tuohy, son of Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy (played by Tim McGraw and Sandra Bullock), in the 2009 film "The Blind Side" directed by John Lee Hancock.
 Head first gained popularity by playing Bo Miller, a young boy befriended by Tim Riggins on the television series "Friday Night Lights".
 Subsequently, show creator Peter Berg cast Head in his film "Hancock" alongside Will Smith, Charlize Theron, and Jason Bateman.
 Head has also appeared in episodes of the CBS sitcom "How I Met Your Mother", "MADtv", and "".
Hancock and Joan is a 2008 British biographical television film based on the affair between the comedian Tony Hancock and Joan Le Mesurier, the third wife of actor John Le Mesurier.
 It was first transmitted on BBC Four on 26 March 2008 as part of the "Curse of Comedy" season.
 It features Ken Stott and Maxine Peake as the title characters, and Alex Jennings as John.
 Written by Richard Cottan, directed by Richard Laxton and produced by Simon Heath, it was made by World Productions for the BBC.