Question: Are the directors of both films The Man from Bitter Ridge and The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945 film) from the same country?

<P0-S0> He was born in Brooklyn, New York and raised in Newark, New Jersey. <P0-S1> He earned a master's degree at Harvard and taught English at the University of Missouri. <P0-S2> During World War I, he served in the military and was afterwards appointed assistant national director of the American Jewish Relief Committee. <P0-S3> He later became a drama and film critic for the "Jewish Tribune" until the early 1920s, when he went to Hollywood to become a reader for Samuel Goldwyn. <P0-S4> Later he worked as a script clerk for directors King Vidor and Victor Sjöström before becoming a screenwriter at MGM in 1924. <P0-S5> Lewin was appointed head of the studio's script department and by the late 1920s was Irving Thalberg's personal assistant and closest associate. <P0-S6> Nominally credited as an associate producer, he produced several of MGM's most important films of the 1930s. <P0-S7> After Thalberg's death, he joined Paramount as a producer in 1937, where he remained until 1941. <P0-S8> Notable producing credits during this period include "True Confession" (1937), "Spawn of the North" (1938), "Zaza" (1939) and "So Ends Our Night" (1941). <P0-S9> In 1942, Lewin began to direct. <P0-S10> Albert Lewin (September 23, 1894 – May 9, 1968) was an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. <P0-S11> He made six films, writing all of them and producing several himself. <P0-S12> As a director and writer, he showed literary and cultural aspirations in the selection and treatment of his themes. <P0-S13> In 1966, Lewin published a novel, "The Unaltered Cat". <SEP> <P1-S0> Released in June 1945 by Metro- Goldwyn- Mayer, the film is directed by Albert Lewin and stars George Sanders as Lord Henry Wotton and Hurd Hatfield as Dorian Gray. <P1-S1> The Picture of Dorian Gray is a 1945 American horror- drama film based on Oscar Wilde's 1890 novel of the same name. <P1-S2> Shot primarily in black- and- white, the film features four colour inserts in 3- strip Technicolor of Dorian's portrait; these are a special effect, the first two inserts are the original portrait and the second two after a major period of degeneration then recovery. <SEP> <P2-S0> Jack Arnold( October 14, 1916 – March 17, 1992) was an American actor and film and television director, best known as one of the leading filmmakers of 1950s science fiction films. <P2-S1> His most notable films are" It Came from Outer Space"( 1953)," Creature from the Black Lagoon"( 1954)," Tarantula"( 1955), and" The Incredible Shrinking Man"( 1957). <SEP> <P3-S0> The Man from Bitter Ridge is a 1955 American Eastmancolor Western film directed by Jack Arnold and starring Lex Barker, Mara Corday and Stephen McNally. <SEP> <P4-S0> The Picture of Dorian Gray( 1915) is an American silent film based on the novel" The Picture of Dorian Gray"( 1890) by Oscar Wilde. <SEP> <P5-S0> William Rukard Hurd Hatfield( December 7, 1917 – December 26, 1998) was an American actor. <P5-S1> He was best known for often playing characters of handsome, narcissistic young men, most notably Dorian Gray in the film" The Picture of Dorian Gray"( 1945).