Question: Who is older, Victor Sjöström or Mike Leigh?

Victor David Sjöström (] ; in the United States sometimes known as Victor Seastrom; 20 September 1879 – 3 January 1960) was a pioneering Swedish film director, screenwriter and actor.  He began his career in Sweden, before moving to Hollywood in 1924.  Sjöström worked primarily in the silent era; his best known films include "The Phantom Carriage" (1921), "He Who Gets Slapped" (1924) and "The Wind" (1928).  Sjöström was Sweden's most prominent director in the "Golden Age of Silent Film" in Europe.  Later in life, he played the leading role in Ingmar Bergman's "Wild Strawberries" (1957). <SEP> Greek Tragedy is a 1989 play by British playwright Mike Leigh. The play was originally presented at Company B Belvoir Street Theatre, Sydney Australia.  It was devised by Mike Leigh with six Australian actors who were chosen after extensive auditions.  The actors were Zoe Carides, Khristina Totos, Adam Hatz, George Spartels, Evodkia Katahanas and Nicholas Papademetriou.  The production was a landmark production for Company B as it is the only play to be devised by Mike Leigh in Australia.  It was one of the biggest successes of the theatre year and was subsequently invited to do seasons at the Edinburgh Festival and London's Theatre Royal Stratford East in 1990.  In 2002 the play was remounted by TheatronGroup with some of the original cast in the Downstairs Theatre of Belvoir Street Theatre.  The play runs for one hour and twenty minutes without an interval and concerns the troubled relationship of a Greek couple Alex and Calliope. <SEP> The Master of Man: The Story of a Sin was a best-selling 1921 novel by Hall Caine.  The fictional story is set on the Isle of Man and is concerned with Victor Stowell, the Deemster's son, who commits a romantic indiscretion and then gives up on all of his principles in order to keep it a secret.  However, in the face of the mounting consequences, Victor confesses publicly to his crime and is punished, but redemption comes through a woman’s love.  The penultimate of Caine's novels, it is romantic and moralistic, returning to his regular themes of sin, justice and atonement, whilst also addressing "the woman question."  It was adapted for a film entitled "Name the Man" in 1924 by Victor Sjöström.  Despite the large international sales upon the book’s release, it was found to be old-fashioned by critics and it has been out of print since the 1930s. <SEP>  He studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) before honing his directing skills at East 15 Acting School and further at the Camberwell School of Art and the Central School of Art and Design.  He began as a theatre director and playwright in the mid-1960s.  In the 1970s and 1980s his career moved between theatre work and making films for BBC Television, many of which were characterised by a gritty "kitchen sink realism" style.  His well-known films include the comedy-dramas "Life is Sweet" (1990) and "Career Girls" (1997), the Gilbert and Sullivan biographical film "Topsy-Turvy" (1999), and the bleak working-class drama "All or Nothing" (2002).  His most notable works are the black comedy-drama "Naked" (1993), for which he won the Best Director Award at Cannes, the Oscar-nominated, BAFTA and Palme d'Or-winning drama "Secrets & Lies" (1996), the Golden Lion winning working-class drama "Vera Drake" (2004), and the Palme d'Or nominated biopic "Mr. Turner" (2014). Mike Leigh OBE (born 20 February 1943) is an English writer and director of film and theatre.  Some of his notable stage plays include "Smelling A Rat", "It's A Great Big Shame", "Greek Tragedy", "Goose-Pimples", "Ecstasy", and "Abigail's Party".