Question: Lionel Barrymore and François Truffaut, are film directors?

<P0-S0> Les Mistons ("The Mischief Makers") is a short film directed by François Truffaut in 1957. <P0-S1>  It was his second film after "Une Visite" in 1955 but it is considered his "first short film of any real consequence". <P0-S2>  Truffaut simply called it "my first real film". <P0-S3>  Moreover, it was Bernadette Lafont's film debut. <P0-S4>  She was at that time Gérard Blain's wife. <P0-S5>  The film demonstrates already some examples for Truffaut's "trademark tracking shots" and would "help define his style" as well as "set Truffaut on a path for his career". <P0-S6>  Truffaut's narrative stresses the details of life, hereby establishing one of the traits of the French New Wave. <P0-S7>  Thus he also became a predecessor of French film directors such as Jean-Pierre Jeunet ("Amélie"). <P0-S8>  It has been stated that the formation of the French New Wave could be "tracked through two short films": Jean-Luc Godard's "All the Boys Are Called Patrick" and Truffaut's "Les Mistons". <P0-S9>  In 2013 the Museum of Modern Art in New York City screened this film together with Truffaut's "The 400 Blows". <SEP> <P1-S0>  In a film career lasting over a quarter of a century, he remains an icon of the French film industry, having worked on over 25 films. <P1-S1>  Truffaut's film "The 400 Blows" came to be a defining film of the French New Wave movement. <P1-S2>  Unique in world cinema, the movie is followed over 20 years with classics "Stolen Kisses", "Bed and Board" and "Love on the Run" between 1958 and 1979. <P1-S3> François Roland Truffaut (] ; 6 February 1932 – 21 October 1984) was a French film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film critic, as well as one of the founders of the French New Wave. <P1-S4>  He also directed such other classics as "Shoot the Piano Player" (1960), "Jules et Jim" (1961), "The Wild Child" (1970), "Two English Girls" (1971), "Day for Night" (1973) and "The Woman Next Door" (1981). <SEP> <P2-S0> A Family Affair is a 1937 American comedy film and the first entry in the sixteen Andy Hardy film series, though Mickey Rooney has a secondary role as the son of Judge Hardy, played by Lionel Barrymore. <P2-S1>  Lewis Stone and Fay Holden replaced Lionel Barrymore and Spring Byington as Judge and Mrs. Hardy in the subsequent films of the series. <SEP> <P3-S0> Lionel Barrymore (born Lionel Herbert Blythe; April 28, 1878 – November 15, 1954) was an American actor of stage, screen and radio as well as a film director. <P3-S1>  He won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in "A Free Soul" (1931), and remains best known to modern audiences for the role of the villainous Mr. Potter character in Frank Capra's 1946 film "It's a Wonderful Life". <P3-S2>  He is also particularly remembered as Ebenezer Scrooge in annual broadcasts of "A Christmas Carol" during his last two decades. <P3-S3>  He is also known for playing Dr. Leonard Gillespie in MGM's nine Dr. Kildare films, a role he reprised in a further six films focussing solely on Gillespie and in a radio series entitled "The Story of Dr. Kildare". <P3-S4>  He was a member of the theatrical Barrymore family.