Question: Were both Lothar Mendes and George Albert Smith German?

Context articles: Smith Fieldhouse
The X-Rays
Three Cuckoo Clocks
Albert Smith Medal
The Man Who Could Work Miracles
Prince of Tempters
Let Me Dream Again
Luxury Liner (1933 film)
Lothar Mendes
George Albert Smith

The George Albert Smith Fieldhouse is a 5,000 seat multi-purpose arena in Provo, Utah.
 Built in 1951, it is the home of the Brigham Young University Cougars volleyball teams and most home gymnastics meets.
 It was named for George Albert Smith, the eighth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, who died the year the fieldhouse opened.
 Prior to the Marriott Center opening in 1971 it was home to the basketball teams.
 At that time, the arena held 10,500 people.
 Smith Fieldhouse also has a track and several offices used by BYU's athletic department.
The X-Rays (also known as The X-Ray Fiend) is a 1897 British short silent comedy film, directed by George Albert Smith, featuring a courting couple exposed to X-rays.
 The trick film, according to Michael Brooke of BFI Screenonline, "contains one of the first British examples of special effects created by means of jump cuts" Smith employs the jump-cut twice; first to transform his courting couple via "X rays," dramatized by means of the actors donning black bodysuits decorated with skeletons, and then to return them to normal.
 The couple in question were played by Smith's wife Laura Bayley and Tom Green (a Brighton comedian).
Three Cuckoo Clocks (German:Die drei Kuckucksuhren) is a 1926 German silent drama film directed by Lothar Mendes and starring Lillian Hall-Davis, Nina Vanna and Nils Asther.
 It premiered at the Gloria-Palast in Berlin on 25 May 1926.
 It was based on a novel by .
 Unlike many of Mendes' films from the period, which are now considered lost, it still survives.
The Albert Smith Memorial Medal is the award given to the Man of the Match in the final of the Camanachd Cup, the blue riband trophy of the sport of shinty.
 It has been presented every year since 1972 by the Smith family of Fort William in honour of Albert Smith Sr. (Born in 1888, Lochuanagan, Fort Augustus.)
 The widow of his only son, Albert Smith Jr. currently presents the medal.
 Albert Sr.'s grandson, Victor Smith is a former player for Fort William Shinty Club but never won the medal despite featuring as a key player in several Fort William wins.
The Man Who Could Work Miracles is a black-and-white 1936 British fantasy-comedy film directed by the German-born American director Lothar Mendes.
 Reputedly the best-known of Mendes' 20 films, it's a greatly expanded version of H. G. Wells’s short story of the same name and stars Roland Young with a cast of supporting players including Sir Ralph Richardson and in a London Films production from the famous Hungarian-born British producer, Sir Alexander Korda.
 H.G. Wells himself worked on the adaptation, the plot revised to reflect Wells's socialist frustrations with the British upper class, and the growing threat of Communism, Fascism and Nazism in Europe at the time, something to which Mendes, Korda and Wells were all committed to combating in their creative work.
Prince of Tempters is a 1926 American silent romance film directed by Lothar Mendes and starring Lois Moran, Ben Lyon and Lya De Putti.
 It is based on the novel "The Ex-Duke" by the British writer E. Phillips Oppenheim.
 The film was made at the Cosmopolitan Studios in New York.
 It was the first film made in America by the German director Lothar Mendes, who married Dorothy Mackaill while working on the production.
Let Me Dream Again is a 1900 British short silent drama film, directed by George Albert Smith, featuring a man dreaming about an attractive young woman and then waking up next to his wife.
 The film stars Smith's real wife, Laura Bayley, as the woman of his fantasies.
 Bayley would later appear in Smith's 1906 film 'Mary Jane's Mishap.'
 The film, according to Michael Brooke of BFI Screenonline, "is an excellent example of an early two-shot film, and is particularly interesting for the way it attempts a primitive dissolve by letting the first shot slip out of focus before cutting to the second shot, which starts off out of focus and gradually sharpens."
 Of further interest is the camera composition of the husband and wife in bed.
 The bed is placed against a wall and in front of a camera that is fixed to the floor, giving the appearance of two people lying in bed, when in reality they are standing.
 The film was shot in Smith's own studio, the former pump house at St Ann's Well Gardens in Hove.
 The film was remade by Ferdinand Zecca for Pathé as "Dream and Reality" (1901).
Luxury Liner is a 1933 American pre-Code drama film directed by Lothar Mendes and starring George Brent, Zita Johann and Vivienne Osborne.
 It was based on a 1932 novel by Gina Kaus, and made by Paramount Pictures.
 Mendes worked on a number of films for Paramount during the era.
 Shortly after making the film, he went to Britain where he directed his most celebrated film "Jew Süss".
Lothar Mendes (19 May 1894 – 25 February 1974) was a German-born screenwriter and film director.
 who began his career as an actor in Vienna and Berlin in Max Reinhardt's famous troupe.
 He went to America in the early 1920s and there he remained until 1933, directing more than a dozen features, mostly frothy comedies, while under contract to Paramount.
 His films included the last silent film made in America, "The Four Feathers" (1929) and the murder mystery "Payment Deferred" (1933) starring British expatriate Charles Laughton.
George Albert Smith Sr. (April 4, 1870 – April 4, 1951) was an American religious leader who served as the eighth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).