Question: Who is older, Victor Sjöström or Mike Leigh?

Context articles: The Tower of Lies
The Lass from the Stormy Croft
Victor Sjöström
Greek Tragedy (play)
Confessions of a Queen
Mike Leigh
A Ruined Life
The Master of Man
Filmstaden
Karin Daughter of Ingmar

The Tower of Lies (1925) was an American silent drama film directed by Victor Sjöström based upon Selma Lagerlöf's novel "The Emperor of Portugallia" (1914).
 Released one year after "He Who Gets Slapped", the film marks the second collaboration between Sjöström, Lon Chaney and Norma Shearer.
 Also starring are William Haines, Ian Keith and Lew Cody.
The Lass from the Stormy Croft (Swedish: Tösen från Stormyrtorpet ) is a 1917 Swedish drama film directed by Victor Sjöström, based on the 1908 novella with the same title by Selma Lagerlöf.
 It was the first in a series of successful Lagerlöf adaptions by Sjöström, made possible by a deal between Lagerlöf and A-B Svenska Biografteatern (later AB Svensk Filmindustri) to adapt at least one Lagerlöf novel each year.
 Lagerlöf had for many years denied any proposal to let her novels be adapted for film, but after seeing Sjöström's "Terje Vigen" she finally decided to give her consent.
Victor David Sjöström (] ; in the United States sometimes known as Victor Seastrom; 20 September 1879 – 3 January 1960) was a pioneering Swedish film director, screenwriter and actor.
 He began his career in Sweden, before moving to Hollywood in 1924.
 Sjöström worked primarily in the silent era; his best known films include "The Phantom Carriage" (1921), "He Who Gets Slapped" (1924) and "The Wind" (1928).
 Sjöström was Sweden's most prominent director in the "Golden Age of Silent Film" in Europe.
 Later in life, he played the leading role in Ingmar Bergman's "Wild Strawberries" (1957).
Greek Tragedy is a 1989 play by British playwright Mike Leigh.
The play was originally presented at Company B Belvoir Street Theatre, Sydney Australia.
 It was devised by Mike Leigh with six Australian actors who were chosen after extensive auditions.
 The actors were Zoe Carides, Khristina Totos, Adam Hatz, George Spartels, Evodkia Katahanas and Nicholas Papademetriou.
 The production was a landmark production for Company B as it is the only play to be devised by Mike Leigh in Australia.
 It was one of the biggest successes of the theatre year and was subsequently invited to do seasons at the Edinburgh Festival and London's Theatre Royal Stratford East in 1990.
 In 2002 the play was remounted by TheatronGroup with some of the original cast in the Downstairs Theatre of Belvoir Street Theatre.
 The play runs for one hour and twenty minutes without an interval and concerns the troubled relationship of a Greek couple Alex and Calliope.
Confessions of a Queen is a 1925 drama film directed by Victor Sjöström based upon a novel by Alphonse Daudet, "Les Rois en Exil".
 Only an incomplete print of the film survives.
Mike Leigh OBE (born 20 February 1943) is an English writer and director of film and theatre.
 He studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) before honing his directing skills at East 15 Acting School and further at the Camberwell School of Art and the Central School of Art and Design.
 He began as a theatre director and playwright in the mid-1960s.
 In the 1970s and 1980s his career moved between theatre work and making films for BBC Television, many of which were characterised by a gritty "kitchen sink realism" style.
 His well-known films include the comedy-dramas "Life is Sweet" (1990) and "Career Girls" (1997), the Gilbert and Sullivan biographical film "Topsy-Turvy" (1999), and the bleak working-class drama "All or Nothing" (2002).
 His most notable works are the black comedy-drama "Naked" (1993), for which he won the Best Director Award at Cannes, the Oscar-nominated, BAFTA and Palme d'Or-winning drama "Secrets & Lies" (1996), the Golden Lion winning working-class drama "Vera Drake" (2004), and the Palme d'Or nominated biopic "Mr. Turner" (2014).
 Some of his notable stage plays include "Smelling A Rat", "It's A Great Big Shame", "Greek Tragedy", "Goose-Pimples", "Ecstasy", and "Abigail's Party".
A Ruined Life (Swedish: Ett hemligt giftermål ) is a 1912 Swedish silent film directed by Victor Sjöström.
 It was Sjöström's debut film as a director.
The Master of Man: The Story of a Sin was a best-selling 1921 novel by Hall Caine.
 The fictional story is set on the Isle of Man and is concerned with Victor Stowell, the Deemster's son, who commits a romantic indiscretion and then gives up on all of his principles in order to keep it a secret.
 However, in the face of the mounting consequences, Victor confesses publicly to his crime and is punished, but redemption comes through a woman’s love.
 The penultimate of Caine's novels, it is romantic and moralistic, returning to his regular themes of sin, justice and atonement, whilst also addressing "the woman question."
 It was adapted for a film entitled "Name the Man" in 1924 by Victor Sjöström.
 Despite the large international sales upon the book’s release, it was found to be old-fashioned by critics and it has been out of print since the 1930s.
Filmstaden (The Film Town) was a film studio situated in Råsunda, Solna Municipality in Stockholm, Sweden.
 Built by the main Swedish film producer at the time, Svensk Filmindustri, in 1919–1920, Filmstaden was one of the most modern film studios in Europe.
 Some 400 movies have been created at Filmstaden.
 The first movie to be filmed at Filmstaden was "The Phantom Carriage" by director Victor Sjöström.
 Practically all Swedish actors and film directors of the 20th century had some connection with Filmstaden.
 In 1969, Svensk Filminstustri finally left Filmstaden, and the studios were used by small film producers, production of television dramas and the "Riksteatern" Theatre.
 One of the last major films to partly have been filmed at Filmstaden was "The Emigrants".
 Most of the buildings were quite well preserved until the beginning of the 21st century when Filmstaden had to make way for a housing development.
 Some buildings, however, have been renovated and Svensk Filmindustri has moved its headquarters back to a former studio building.
Karin Daughter of Ingmar (Swedish: "Karin Ingmarsdotter" ) is a 1920 Swedish silent drama film directed by Victor Sjöström.
 It is the second part in Sjöström's large-scale adaption of Selma Lagerlöf's novel Jerusalem, following "Sons of Ingmar" from the year before, and depicting chapter three and four from the novel.
 The critical reception was, however, unenthusiastic, and Sjöström decided to not direct any more parts.
 Eventually the suite was finished by Gustaf Molander in 1926.