Question: Which film has the director died later, The Deserter (1912 Film) or Kanavan?

He was born at Villupuram, Tamil Nadu. Palaniyaandi Neelakantan (2 October 1916 Villupuram – 3 September 1992 Chennai) was a Tamil film director, who was active for nearly four decades. He graduated to movies from stage play. His play "Naam Iruvar" was brought by movie mogul Avichi Meiyappa Chettiar and made into a film in 1947. Then he wrote the dialogues for films like "Vedala Ulagam" in 1948. His directorial debut was with "Oru Iravu" in (1951), the dialogue for which was written by C. N. Annadurai. Two films that made him well-known are ALS productions "Ambikapadi" (1957) and "Thirudadhe" (1961). He also has directed movies in Kannada and Sinhalese "Suneetha" and "Sujage Rahase". Neelakantan was mainly associated with creating M. G. Ramachandran's (MGR) movie persona. Between "Chakravarthi Thirumagal" in 1957 and "Needhikku Thalaivanangu" in 1976, Neelakantan directed altogether 17 of MGR's movies. <SEP> The Deserter(" Dezertir") is a 1933 Soviet drama film directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin. It was his first sound picture. <SEP> Ince was known as the" Father of the Western" and was responsible for making over 800 films. Thomas Harper Ince( November 16, 1880 – November 19, 1924) was an American silent film producer, director, screenwriter, and actor. He revolutionized the motion picture industry by creating the first major Hollywood studio facility and invented movie production by introducing the" assembly line" system of filmmaking. He was the first mogul to build his own film studio dubbed" Inceville" in Palisades Highlands. Ince was also instrumental in developing the role of the producer in motion pictures. Two of his films," The Italian"( 1915), for which he wrote the screenplay, and" Civilization"( 1916), which he directed, were selected for preservation by the National Film Registry. He later entered into a partnership with D. W. Griffith and Mack Sennett to form the Triangle Motion Picture Company, whose studios are the present- day site of Sony Pictures. He then built a new studio about a mile from Triangle, which is now the site of Culver Studios. Ince's untimely death at the height of his career, after he became severely ill aboard the private yacht of media tycoon William Randolph Hearst, has caused much speculation, although the official cause of his death was heart failure. <SEP> The film was dubbed into Hindi as" Aakhri Nishan". Kanavan, is a 1968 Indian Tamil film, directed by P. Neelakantan, starring M. G. Ramachandran in the lead role and Jayalalithaa, with C. R. Vijayakumari, S. A. Asokan, Cho among others. <SEP> The Deserter is a 1912 silent black- and- white two- reel Western film written and directed by Thomas H. Ince. It was released March 15, 1912 and starred Francis Ford and Ethel Grandin. The film was screened in December 2006 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, as part of a retrospective on Thomas H. Ince. The film is available at the Library of Congress. <SEP> Le masque de la Méduse is a 2009 fantasy horror film directed by Jean Rollin. The film is a modern-day telling of the Greek mythological tale of the Gorgon and was inspired by the 1964 classic Hammer Horror film of the same name and the 1981 cult classic" Clash of the Titans". It was Rollin's final film, as the director died in 2010.