Question: Which was a film director and screenwriter, Albert Ward or Roy Del Ruth?

Context articles: Man from 1997
Albert Ward (film director)
The Maltese Falcon (1931 film)
Hogan's Alley (film)
The Alligator People
The Hottentot
The Aviator (1929 film)
Roy Del Ruth
Starlift
Why Must I Die?

Man From 1997 is a time travel episode of the 1956–57 anthology television series "Conflict" directed by Roy del Ruth, produced by Roy Huggins, written by James Gunn from a story by Alfred Bester, and starring Jacques Sernas, Charles Ruggles, Gloria Talbott and James Garner.
 The music was written by David Buttolph and the cinematographer was Ted D. McCord.
 The show was originally telecast on November 27, 1956 and a kinescope of the broadcast currently exists.
Albert Ward (1870-1956) was a British screenwriter and film director.
 He also play the role of William Shakespeare in the 1914 biopic of the playwright's career "The Life of Shakespeare".
The Maltese Falcon is a 1931 American pre-Code crime film, based on the novel of the same name by Dashiell Hammett and directed by Roy Del Ruth.
 The film stars Ricardo Cortez as private detective Sam Spade and Bebe Daniels as Ruth Wonderly.
 Maude Fulton, Brown Holmes, and Lucien Hubbard (who went uncredited) wrote the screenplay.
 The supporting cast features Dudley Digges, Thelma Todd, Walter Long, Una Merkel, and Dwight Frye.
 The film is based on the 1929 novel "The Maltese Falcon" by Dashiell Hammett published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
Hogan's Alley (1925) is a silent film comedy produced and distributed by Warner Bros..
 It was an early directing assignment for Roy Del Ruth and starred Monte Blue, Patsy Ruth Miller, and Ben Turpin.
 This film is a precursor to the sound film "One Round Hogan", a later Monte Blue boxing vehicle.
The Alligator People is a 1959 CinemaScope science fiction horror film directed by Roy Del Ruth.
 It stars Beverly Garland, Bruce Bennett and Lon Chaney Jr. This film was the penultimate feature directed by Del Ruth and quite different than those of his days at Warner Bros.
The Hottentot is a lost 1929 American pre-Code film directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring Edward Everett Horton and Patsy Ruth Miller.
 It is based on a 1920 Broadway play, "The Hottentot", by William Collier, Sr. and Victor Mapes.
The Aviator is a 1929 American Pre-Code Vitaphone comedy film produced and released by Warner Bros. Directed by Roy Del Ruth, the film was based on the play of the same name by James Montgomery and starred Edward Everett Horton and Patsy Ruth Miller.
 "The Aviator" is similar to the silent comedy "The Hottentot" (1922), where a hapless individual has to pretend to be a famous steeplehorse jockey.
 "The Aviator" today is considered a lost film.
Roy Del Ruth (October 18, 1895, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – April 27, 1961) was an American film director.
Starlift (aka Operation Starlift) is a 1951 American musical film released by Warner Brothers in directed by Roy Del Ruth and written by Karl Lamb and John D. Klorer.
 The film stars Janice Rule, Dick Wesson, Ron Hagerthy and Ruth Roman.
 "Starlift" was made during the beginning of the Korean War and centers on an Air Force flyer's wish to meet a film star, and her fellow stars' efforts to perform for injured men at the air force base.
Why Must I Die?
 is a 1960 neo noir film directed by Roy Del Ruth, and starring Terry Moore and Debra Paget.
 It was released by American International Pictures as a double feature with "The Jailbreakers".
 This was director Roy Del Ruth's final film.