Question: Are the directors of films The Terry Fox Story and Splendor In The Grass both from the same country?

<P0-S0> Eric Fryer is a Canadian actor, who played Terry Fox in the 1983 biopic" The Terry Fox Story". <P0-S1> Originally from Scarborough, Ontario, he was cast because he was a leg amputee who had some physical resemblance to Fox. <P0-S2> As he was a novice actor, however, the film's producers hired Rosemary Dunsmore as a dedicated acting coach to guide Fryer in performing. <P0-S3> At the time of his casting he did not appreciate what Fox had done, telling" The Globe and Mail" that" he was n't an inspiration because, when that's happening to you, you're in your own little world. <P0-S4> I just wanted to get on with my own life and not worry about some guy who was running across Canada. <P0-S5> I wanted to get myself together." <P0-S6> After acting Fox's life onscreen his perspective changed, however, and he began telling the press that working on the film had given him greater insight into Fox's determination and the scope of his achievement. <P0-S7> Fryer won the award for Best Actor at the 5th Genie Awards. <P0-S8> He only appeared in two other minor acting roles thereafter, appearing in episodes of" The Beachcombers High Tension", February 19, 1984) and" Home Fires". <SEP> <P1-S0> After attending Williams College and then the Yale School of Drama, he acted professionally for eight years, later joining the Group Theatre in 1932, and co-founded the Actors Studio in 1947. <P1-S1> With Robert Lewis and Cheryl Crawford, his actors' studio introduced" Method Acting" under the direction of Lee Strasberg. <P1-S2> He directed a string of successful films, including" A Streetcar Named Desire"( 1951)," On the Waterfront"( 1954), and" East of Eden"( 1955). <P1-S3> During his career, he won two Oscars as Best Director, three Tony Awards, and four Golden Globes. <P1-S4> He also received an Honorary Oscar. <P1-S5> It was followed by" Pinky", one of the first films in mainstream Hollywood to address racial prejudice against African Americans. <P1-S6> In 1954, he directed" On the Waterfront", a film about union corruption on the New York harbor waterfront. <P1-S7> The two men had made a pact to name each other in front of the committee. <P1-S8> When Kazan was awarded an honorary Oscar in 1999, dozens of actors chose not to applaud as 250 demonstrators picketed the event. <P1-S9> Kazan influenced the films of the 1950s and 1960s with his provocative, issue- driven subjects. <P1-S10> Elia Kazan( born Elias Kazantzoglou; September 7, 1909 – September 28, 2003) was a Greek- American director, producer, writer and actor, described by" The New York Times" as" one of the most honored and influential directors in Broadway and Hollywood history". <P1-S11> In 2010, Martin Scorsese co- directed the documentary film" A Letter to Elia" as a personal tribute to Kazan. <SEP> <P2-S0> The Terry Fox Story is a 1983 Canadian- American biographical film of Canadian amputee and runner Terry Fox. <P2-S1> The film stars Eric Fryer as Fox, Chris Makepeace as his brother Darrell, and Robert Duvall as Fox's publicist, Bill Vigars. <P2-S2> The cast also includes Rosalind Chao, R. H. Thomson, Elva Mai Hoover, Michael Zelniker, Saul Rubinek and Patrick Watson. <P2-S3> It was written by Howard Hume, John Kastner and Rose Kastner, and directed by Ralph L. Thomas. <P2-S4> The film was produced for HBO in the United States with Canadian co-producers. <P2-S5> Although it was also released in Canadian and British theatres, it was the first television film ever made for a cable network. <P2-S6> The movie included the song Runner, written by rock artist Ian Thomas in response to the coverage of Terry Fox's efforts. <SEP> <P3-S0> Elva Mai Hoover is a Canadian actress. <P3-S1> She is best known for her performance as Betty Fox in" The Terry Fox Story", for which she garnered a Genie Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress at the 5th Genie Awards in 1984, and her television roles as Mrs. Edison in" The Edison Twins" and Mrs. Lawson in" Road to Avonlea". <P3-S2> She has also had guest and supporting roles in other films and television series, but was active primarily as a stage actor, most notably as painter Anne Langton in Molly Thom's" The Bush- Ladies". <P3-S3> She is the mother of writer Gemma Files, through her marriage to Australian actor Gary Files. <SEP> <P4-S0> Splendor in the Grass is a 1961 American Technicolor period drama film that tells a story of a teenage girl navigating her feelings of sexual repression, love, and heartbreak. <P4-S1> Written by William Inge, who appears briefly as a Protestant clergyman and who won an Oscar for his screenplay, the film was directed by Elia Kazan and features a score by jazz composer David Amram. <SEP> <P5-S0> Ralph L. Thomas( born September 8, 1939) is a Brazilian- born Canadian film director and screenwriter. <P5-S1> He was born in São Luís, Maranhão to Canadian Baptist missionary parents and grew up there and in Canada. <P5-S2> He attended the University of Toronto for two years and began to write for the entertainment pages of the" Toronto Star" in 1963. <P5-S3> He is married to Vivienne Leebosh, film producer. <P5-S4> He was earlier married to Dorothy Thomas, a Toronto City Councillor. <P5-S5> He directed his first film in 1977 for CBC Television, a made- for- TV movie called" Tyler". <P5-S6> He continued to make movies for television for a few years before he got his big break directing the feature film" Ticket to Heaven". <P5-S7> The film won Best Motion Picture at the Genie Awards and Thomas was nominated for Best Director. <P5-S8> His follow- up film," The Terry Fox Story", also won the Genie Award for Best Motion Picture. <P5-S9> Thomas continued to direct feature and television films until 1996, although he opted to have his name removed from his 1989 film" The First Season" following producer interference in the editing.