Question: Did both Howard M. Mitchell and Coleman Francis direct silent films?

Context articles: Red Zone Cuba
Cross-dressing in film and television
The Beast of Yucca Flats
The Skydivers
Edward A. McCarthy
Coleman Francis
Silent Orchestra
Coleman Carroll
Howard M. Mitchell
Earl Francis

Red Zone Cuba, also known as Night Train to Mundo Fine, is a 1966 American drama film directed by Coleman Francis, who also wrote, produced, and played the starring role.
 It follows the meandering adventures of an escaped convict and two ex-convicts he recruits along the way as they become involved in the 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion, and a quest to find a hidden treasure in a tungsten mine.
Cross-dressing in motion pictures began in the early days of the silent films.
 Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel brought the tradition of female impersonation in the English music halls when they came to America with Fred Karno's comedy troupe in 1910.
 Both Chaplin and Laurel occasionally dressed as women in their films.
 Even the beefy American actor Wallace Beery appeared in a series of silent films as a Swedish woman.
 The Three Stooges, especially Curly (Jerry Howard), sometimes appeared in drag in their short films.
 The tradition has continued for many years, usually played for laughs.
 Only in recent years have there been dramatic films in which cross-dressing was included, possibly because of strict censorship of American films until the mid-1960s.
 One early exception was the murderer, a transvestite who wears particularly frilly dresses and petticoats, in Alfred Hitchcock's British thriller "Murder!
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The Beast of Yucca Flats is a B-movie horror film released in 1961.
 It was produced by Anthony Cardoza, Coleman Francis, Roland Morin, Jim Oliphant, Larry Aten and Bing Stafford.
 The film was directed and written by Francis.
The Skydivers is a 1963 film produced by Anthony Cardoza and written and directed by Coleman Francis, who together also made The Beast of Yucca Flats.
 It stars actress Kevin Casey as Beth, along with, also from "The Beast of Yucca Flats", Eric Tomlin as Joe, Anthony Cardoza as Harry, and Marcia Knight as Suzy.
 The film contains performances by influential Nashville guitarist Jimmy Bryant.
Edward Anthony McCarthy (April 10, 1918 – June 7, 2005) was the second Archbishop of Miami, Florida.
 He was appointed Coadjutor Archbishop of Miami on September 17, 1976 and succeeded Coleman Francis Carroll as Archbishop of Miami on July 26, 1977.
 Archbishop McCarthy retired as Archbishop on November 3, 1994.
 He died on June 7, 2005 at the age of 87.
Coleman C. Francis (January 24, 1919 – January 15, 1973) was an American actor, writer, producer, and director.
 He was best known for his film trilogy consisting of "The Beast of Yucca Flats" (1961), "The Skydivers" (1963), "Red Zone Cuba" (1966), all three of which were filmed in the general Santa Clarita, California area and used preoccupation with light aircraft and parachuting, coffee or cigarettes serving as a prop or a center of conversation, and a vigilante-style gunning down of suspects without a trial to conclude the film as frequent motifs.
Silent Orchestra was formed in 1998 to bring live music and sound design to classic and contemporary silent films.
 They have performed their own new compositions for classic silent films at art house theaters, film festivals and art galleries since 1999.
 They have appeared on DVDs of classic Silent films released by Image Entertainment.
Coleman Francis Carroll (February 9, 1905 – July 26, 1977) was an American clergyman of the Roman Catholic Church.
 He served as Bishop (later Archbishop) of Miami from 1958 until his death in 1977.
Howard M. Mitchell (December 11, 1883 – October 9, 1958) was an American actor and film director.
 He appeared in 270 films between 1910 and 1952 and directed 38 silent films between 1915 and 1927.
Earl Coleman Francis (July 14, 1935 – July 3, 2002) was an American professional baseball player.
 A right-hander pitcher, he appeared in 103 games, 52 of them as a starter, in Major League Baseball between 1960 and 1965.
 The native of Slab Fork, West Virginia, stood 6 ft tall and weighed 210 lb .