Question: Are the directors of both films The Gaunt Stranger and An Everlasting Piece from the same country?

<P0-S0> The Ringer is a 1931 British crime film directed by Walter Forde and starring Patric Curwen, Esmond Knight, John Longden and Carol Goodner. <P0-S1> Scotland Yard detectives hunt for a dangerous criminal who has recently returned to England. <P0-S2> The film was based on an Edgar Wallace story" The Gaunt Stranger", which is the basis for his play" The Ringer". <P0-S3> Forde remade the same story in 1938 as" The Gaunt Stranger". <P0-S4> There was also a silent film of" The Ringer" in 1928, and a 1952 version starring Donald Wolfit. <P0-S5> It was made at Beaconsfield Studios. <SEP> <P1-S0> Levinson's best- known works are mid-budget comedy- drama and drama films such as" Diner"( 1982);" The Natural"( 1984);" Good Morning, Vietnam"( 1987);" Bugsy"( 1991); and" Wag the Dog"( 1997). <P1-S1> He won the Academy Award for Best Director for" Rain Man"( 1988), which also won the Academy Award for Best Picture. <P1-S2> Barry Levinson( born April 6, 1942) is an American filmmaker, screenwriter, and actor. <SEP> <P2-S0> An Everlasting Piece is a 2000 American comedy film. <P2-S1> It was written by and starred Barry McEvoy. <P2-S2> The plot involves two wig salesmen, one Catholic and one Protestant, who live in war- torn Belfast, Northern Ireland, in the mid-1980s. <P2-S3> The supporting cast includes comedian Billy Connolly as an patient in a psychiatric hospital. <P2-S4> McEvoy based the screenplay on the adventures of his father as a toupée peddler to both sides in the midst of the conflict. <P2-S5> The movie was shot on location in both Belfast and Dublin. <P2-S6> The movie was directed by Barry Levinson. <SEP> <P3-S0> Barry McEvoy is an Irish film actor/ writer best known for writing and playing the lead in" An Everlasting Piece"( 2000), directed by Barry Levinson. <P3-S1> McEvoy's first screen appearance of note was in the supporting role of a gangster in" Gloria"( 1999), filmed after he had spent a decade performing in Off Broadway plays in New York City. <P3-S2> He appeared in" Gettysburg"( 1993)," Veronica Guerin"( 2003),( 2006), and" Five Minutes of Heaven"( 2009). <P3-S3> McEvoy based the screenplay of" An Everlasting Piece" upon the adventures of his own father selling toupées to both Protestants and Catholics in Belfast, Northern Ireland, during the height of the conflict. <P3-S4> Before his career in film, Barry was lead singer for legendary 1980s Washington, D.C., punk band Phlegm, who released several records before disbanding in 1988. <P3-S5> McEvoy lives in Dublin with his wife and son. <P3-S6> He continues to do screenwriting and also stars in plays from time to time in both Ireland and the U.S. <SEP> <P4-S0> Walter Forde( born Thomas Seymour Woolford, 21 April 1898 – 7 January 1984) was a British actor, screenwriter and director. <P4-S1> Born in Lambeth, South London in 1898, he directed over fifty films between 1919 from the silent era through to 1949 in the sound era He died in Los Angeles, California in 1984. <SEP> <P5-S0> The Gaunt Stranger( released as The Phantom Strikes in the US) is a 1938 British mystery thriller film directed by Walter Forde. <P5-S1> It stars Sonnie Hale, Wilfrid Lawson and Alexander Knox.