Question: Are the directors of both films Stardust Memories and Captain Midnight, The Bush King from the same country?

Captain Midnight, the Bush King The film is based on the play of same name by W. J. Lincoln and Alfred Dampier. ( US: The Bushranger's Bride) was a 1911 Australian silent drama film about the fictitious bushranger Captain Midnight which was the directorial debut of actor Alfred Rolfe. " Captain Midnight, the Bush King" is now considered lost. <SEP> Only one of his films as director survives today. Alfred Rolfe, real name Alfred Roker( 1862 – 9 September 1943), was an Australian film director and actor, best known for being the son-in- law of the celebrated actor-manager Alfred Dampier, with whom he appeared frequently on stage, and for his prolific output as a director during Australia's silent era, including" Captain Midnight, the Bush King"( 1911)," Captain Starlight, or Gentleman of the Road"( 1911) and" The Hero of the Dardanelles"( 1915). <SEP> He began his career as a comedy writer in the 1950s, writing jokes and scripts for television and publishing several books of short humor pieces. In the early 1960s, he performed as a stand-up comedian, emphasizing monologues rather than traditional jokes, where he developed the persona of an insecure, intellectual, fretful nebbish, which he maintains is quite different from his real-life personality. In 2004 Comedy Central ranked Allen fourth on a list of the 100 greatest stand-up comedians, while a UK survey ranked Allen the third-greatest comedian. By the mid-1960s Allen was writing and directing films, first specializing in slapstick comedies before moving into dramatic material influenced by European art cinema during the 1970s, and alternating between comedies and dramas to the present. He is often identified as part of the New Hollywood wave of filmmakers of the mid-1960s to late 1970s. Allen often stars in his films, typically in the persona he developed as a standup. Some of the best-known of his over 50 films are "Annie Hall" (1977), "Manhattan" (1979), "Hannah and Her Sisters" (1986), "Crimes and Misdemeanors" (1989), and "Midnight in Paris" (2011). In 2007 he said "Stardust Memories" (1980), "The Purple Rose of Cairo" (1985), and "Match Point" (2005) were his best films. Critic Roger Ebert described Allen as "a treasure of the cinema". Heywood Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg; December 1, 1935), better known as Woody Allen, is an American director, writer, actor, and comedian whose career spans more than six decades. Allen has received many accolades and honors throughout his career. He has won four Academy Awards: three for Best Original Screenplay and one for Best Director. He also garnered nine British Academy Film Awards. His screenplay for "Annie Hall" was named the funniest screenplay by the Writers Guild of America in its list of the "101 Funniest Screenplays". In 2011 PBS televised the film biography "Woody Allen: A Documentary" on its series "American Masters". <SEP> Attack on the Gold Escort is a 1911 Australian silent film. It was sometimes known as" Captain Midnight, King of the Bushrangers, or Attack of the Gold Escort", or" Captain Starlight's Attack on the Gold Escort". It is considered a lost film. The film was called" an Exciting and Thrilling Reproduction of Australian Early Days. A vivid portrayal of bush adventure, acted by Australian artistes, amid Australian scenery" which was filmed" at the exact spot where the incident happened." The movie is often confused with" Captain Midnight, the Bush King" and" Captain Starlight, or Gentleman of the Road". However it seems it was a separate movie. <SEP> The film is about a filmmaker who recalls his life and his loves- the inspirations for his films- while attending a retrospective of his work. The film is shot in black and white and is reminiscent of Federico Fellini's" 8 ½"( 1963), which it parodies. " Stardust Memories" was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award for Best Comedy written directly for screen, but was not warmly received by critics on its original release, and is not among the most renowned works in Allen's filmography. The film has nonetheless been re-evaluated to some extent, with modern reception more often positive than negative. Allen, who denies that the work is autobiographical and has expressed regret that audiences interpreted it as such, even considers it to be one of his finest, alongside" The Purple Rose of Cairo" and" Match Point". Stardust Memories is a 1980 American comedy- drama film written and directed by Woody Allen and starring himself, Charlotte Rampling, Jessica Harper, Marie- Christine Barrault and Sharon Stone in her film debut. <SEP> Captain Midnight( 1942) was the 17th serial released by Columbia Pictures. It was based upon the radio adventure serial of the same name broadcast from 1938 to 1949.