Question: Do both films Old Lady 31 and The Southerner (film) have the directors that share the same nationality?

Based on the success of" Yojimbo", Kurosawa's next film," Sanjuro"( 1962), was altered to incorporate the lead character of this film. In both films, the character wears a rather dilapidated dark kimono bearing the same family" mon". <SEP> As a film director and actor, he made more than forty films from the silent era to the end of the 1960s. His films" La Grande Illusion"( 1937) and" The Rules of the Game"( 1939) are often cited by critics as among the greatest films ever made. He was ranked by the BFI's" Sight& Sound" poll of critics in 2002 as the fourth greatest director of all time. Among numerous honors accrued during his lifetime, he received a Lifetime Achievement Academy Award in 1975 for his contribution to the motion picture industry. Renoir was the son of the painter Pierre- Auguste Renoir. Jean Renoir( 15 September 1894 – 12 February 1979) was a French film director, screenwriter, actor, producer and author. He was one of the first filmmakers to be known as an" auteur". <SEP> It is based on a novel by Louise Forsslund that was turned into a play by Rachel Crothers. The film starred actress Emma Dunn reprising her 1916 stage success for the screen. The film was remade in 1940 as" The Captain Is a Lady". Old Lady 31 is a 1920 American silent comedy drama film produced and distributed by Metro Pictures and directed by John Ince. <SEP> The film received Oscar nominations for Best Director, Original Music Score, and Sound. The Southerner is a 1945 American drama film directed by Jean Renoir and based on the 1941 novel" Hold Autumn in Your Hand" by George Sessions Perry. Renoir was named Best Director by the National Board of Review, which also named the film the third best of 1945. The film, now in the public domain, portrays the hardships of a poor family struggling to establish a cotton farm in Texas in the early 1940s. <SEP> A leading man from the early 1910s, he also directed and scripted several of his own vehicles. Concentrating almost exclusively on directing from 1915 through 1928, Ince returned before the cameras as a character actor in the early years of the talkies. John Ince, also known as John E. Ince,( August 29, 1878 – April 10, 1947) was an American stage and motion pictures actor, a film director, and the eldest brother of Thomas H. Ince and Ralph Ince. <SEP> Louise Forsslund (March 13, 1873 - May 2, 1910) was the pen name of American author Mary Louise Foster, who wrote a number of short stories and novels in the first decade of the 20th century. Forsslund was her father's surname before he Americanized it to Foster, and she incorporated some of his many experiences into her stories. Her short stories appeared in publications including the "Ladies' Home JournalThe Century Magazine", and "Tom Watson's Magazine". Her last novel, "Old Lady Number 31", was turned into a play in 1916-17 and the silent film Old Lady 31 in 1920. She was a native of Sayville, New York, and died on May 2, 1910 in nearby Brentwood, New York. She married Charles Carey Waddell in 1906, who authored "The Van Suyden Sapphires" under the name Charles Carey.