Question: Which film has the director died later, French Connection Ii or The Bandit Queen (Film)?

<P0-S0> It is a fictional sequel to the initially true story of the 1971 Academy Award winning picture" The French Connection". <P0-S1> The film expands on the central character of Det. Jimmy" Popeye" <P0-S2> Doyle who travels to Marseille, France where he is attempting to track down French drug- dealer Alain Charnier, who escaped at the end of the first film. <P0-S3> French Connection II is a 1975 American action thriller film starring Gene Hackman and directed by John Frankenheimer. <P0-S4> Hackman won an Academy Award for Best Actor for the original" The French Connection" and he and Fernando Rey are the only returning cast members. <SEP> <P1-S0> Fernando Casado Arambillet( 20 September 1917 – 9 March 1994), best known as Fernando Rey, was a Spanish film, theatre, and television actor, who worked in both Europe and the United States. <P1-S1> A suave, international actor best known for his roles in the films of surrealist director Luis Buñuel(" Tristana", 1970;" Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie", 1972;" That Obscure Object of Desire", 1977) and as the drug lord Alain Charnier in" The French Connection"( 1971) and" French Connection II"( 1975), he appeared in more than 150 films over half a century. <P1-S2> The debonair Rey was described by" French Connection" producer Philip D'Antoni as" the last of the Continental guys". <P1-S3> He achieved his greatest fame after he turned 50:" Perhaps it is a pity that my success came so late in life", he told the" Los Angeles Times It might have been better to have been successful while young, like El Cordobés in the bullring. <P1-S4> Then your life is all before you to enjoy it." <SEP> <P2-S0> John Michael Frankenheimer (February 19, 1930 – July 6, 2002) was an American film and television director known for social dramas and action/suspense films. <P2-S1> Among his credits were "Birdman of Alcatraz" (1962), "The Manchurian Candidate" (1962), "Seven Days in May" (1964), "The Train" (1965), "Seconds" (1966), "Grand Prix" (1966), "French Connection II" (1975), "Black Sunday" (1977), and "Ronin" (1998). <P2-S2> He won four Emmy Awards—three consecutive—in the 1990s for directing the television movies "Against the WallThe Burning SeasonAndersonville", and "George Wallace", the last of which also received a Golden Globe Award for Best Miniseries or Television Film. <P2-S3> Frankenheimer's 30 feature films and over 50 plays for television were notable for their influence on contemporary thought. <P2-S4> He became a pioneer of the "modern-day political thriller", having begun his career at the peak of the Cold War. <P2-S5> He was technically highly accomplished from his days in live television; many of his films were noted for creating "psychological dilemmas" for his male protagonists along with having a strong "sense of environment," similar in style to films by director Sidney Lumet, for whom he had earlier worked as assistant director. <P2-S6> He developed a "tremendous propensity for exploring political situations" which would ensnare his characters. <P2-S7> Movie critic Leonard Maltin writes that "in his time [1960s]... Frankenheimer worked with the top writers, producers and actors in a series of films that dealt with issues that were just on top of the moment—things that were facing us all." <SEP> <P3-S0> Smokey and the Bandit is a 1977 American action comedy film starring Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, Jackie Gleason, Jerry Reed, Pat McCormick, Paul Williams and Mike Henry. <P3-S1> The film was the directorial debut of stuntman Hal Needham. <P3-S2> The film follows Bo "Bandit" Darville (Reynolds) and Cledus "Snowman" Snow (Reed), two bootleggers, as they attempt to drive from Atlanta to Texarkana, pick up 400 cases of Coors beer, and illegally transport it back to Atlanta in 28 hours or less. <P3-S3> While Snow drives the truck carrying the beer, the Bandit drives a Pontiac Trans Am to distract law enforcement and keep the attention off Snow. <P3-S4> During their run, they are relentlessly pursued by Buford T. Justice (Gleason), a blusterous Texas county sheriff. <P3-S5> "Smokey and the Bandit" was followed by two sequels: "Smokey and the Bandit II" (1980) and "Smokey and the Bandit Part 3" (1983). <P3-S6> "Smokey and the Bandit" was the second highest-grossing domestic film of 1977, second only to "Star Wars", the first film in the original "Star Wars" trilogy. <SEP> <P4-S0> The Bandit Queen is a 1950 American Western film directed by William Berke. and starring Barbara Britton, Willard Parker and Phillip Reed. as the leaders of a Robin Hood type band. <SEP> <P5-S0> He directed nearly 90 films between 1934 and 1958. <P5-S1> He also produced nearly 80 films between 1933 and 1958. <P5-S2> He was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and died in Los Angeles, California. <P5-S3> William A. Berke( October 3, 1903 – February 15, 1958) was an American film director, producer and screenwriter. <P5-S4> Richard Fleischer later recalled Berke" was known as King of the B's. <P5-S5> For years and years he had made nothing but pictures with ten or twelve day shooting schedules, minuscule budgets of about$ 100,000 and no stars. <P5-S6> Without bothering with editing or any postproduction chores and with short shooting schedules, he was able to squeeze in eight or ten pictures a year. <P5-S7> And he was going nuts". <P5-S8> According to Fleischer, Berke eventually pestered RKO executives enough to be assigned an A picture with a long shooting schedule and stars and he still shot it in twelve days.