Question: Are the directors of both films A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum (Film) and Bim from the same country?

Greg Carey is an Australian- born voice actor known for his role as" Hun" in" Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles". Carey joined the Charles Sturt University theatrical production, in Bathurst, New South Wales. Carey started acting in 2001 in" Are you Game?", a University project. He became a stage manager for" One Thumb Out" in the same production facility in 2002. He starred in the same year as" Miles Gloriosus" in" A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum", another University project. He's also re-done The United Negro College Fund famous tag" A mind is a terrible thing to waste". <SEP> He is known for his work with The Beatles in the 1960s and his work on the" Superman" film series in the 1980s. Lester is an Honorary Associate of London Film School. Richard Lester Liebman( born January 19, 1932), commonly referred to as Dick Lester, is a retired American film director based in the United Kingdom. <SEP> Lenard George" Leon" Greene( born 1931) is an English actor and opera singer. At the age of 20, Greene joined the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company and sang bass with them for just over a year. After leaving the D'Oyly Carte, he appeared in bass roles for several productions between 1954 and 1962 with the Sadler's Wells Opera. In 1963, he moved on to musical comedy, appearing in the West End production of" A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" as the Roman captain Miles Gloriosus. As a result of that performance, he was asked to reprise the role for the film version of the show to begin his career in films. His films include" A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum"( 1966)," A Challenge for Robin Hood"( 1967)," The Devil Rides Out"( 1968)," The Squeeze"( 1977)," Flash Gordon"( 1980), and several" Carry On" comedies. <SEP> It was described by Bruce Paddington as" one of the most important films to be produced in Trinidad and Tobago and ... one of the classics of Caribbean cinema". In 1975 at the United States Virgin Islands Film Festival in St Thomas," Bim" won a gold medal special jury award as" a film of unusual merit". Bim is a 1975 Trinidad and Tobago film written by Raoul Pantin and directed by Hugh A. Robertson. <SEP> A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum is a 1966 British- American DeLuxe Color musical comedy film, based on the stage musical of the same name. It was inspired by the farces of the ancient Roman playwright Plautus( 251–183 BC) – specifically" PseudolusMiles Gloriosus" and" Mostellaria" – and tells the bawdy story of a slave named Pseudolus and his attempts to win his freedom by helping his young master woo the girl next door. The film was directed by Richard Lester, with Zero Mostel and Jack Gilford reprising their stage roles. It also features Buster Keaton in his last motion picture role; Phil Silvers, for whom the stage musical was originally intended; and Lester favorites Michael Crawford, Michael Hordern and Roy Kinnear. The musical was adapted for the screen by Melvin Frank and Michael Pertwee from the stage musical of the same name with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart. The film's cinematography was by Nicolas Roeg. <SEP> While Robertson was credited as an editor for only three films," Midnight Cowboy"( directed by John Schlesinger- 1969) earned him the BAFTA Award for Best Editing and a nomination for the Academy Award for Film Editing, making him the first African American person to be nominated for an Oscar in the editing category. Robertson subsequently edited Gordon Parks' film" Shaft"( 1971), which was his last credit as a film editor. By this time Robertson had turned to directing. In addition to television programs and documentaries, he directed the feature" Melinda"( 1972). He spent most of his remaining life in Trinidad and Tobago. Hugh A. Robertson( May 28, 1932 – January 10, 1988) was an African- American film director and editor, born in Brooklyn, of Jamaican parents. There he produced and directed the film" Bim"( 1975) and ran a filmmaking school. He returned to the United States in 1986.