Question: Do director of film I Was An American Spy and director of film Rama Paduka Pattabhishekam have the same nationality?

Badami was contracted by Sagar Movietone( Sagar Film Company) to direct" Rama Paduka Pattabhishekham" in Telugu. The success of the film established him as a director. He went on to direct" Galava Rishi"( Tamil), and" Shakuntala" in Telugu for Sagar Movietone. Rama Paduka Pattabhishekam(" English": The Coronation Of Lord Rama's Slippers)(" Telugu:" రామ పాదుక ప ట్టాభిషేకం) is a 1932 Telugu mythological drama film directed by Sarvottam Badami. Suryanarayana Yadavalli, who was a renowned stage actor played the lead role of Lord Rama in" Rama Paduka Pattabhishekam". The film starred C. S. R. Anjaneyulu, Surabhi Kamalabai, Yadavalli Suryanarayana. The film was based on a plot from the Ramayana involving Lord Rama's fourteen years exile to the forest and Bharat's coronation of Rama's padukas on the throne as symbolic representation of Rama's rule. <SEP> He started his career as a sound recordist for the first talkie in India," Alam Ara"( 1931). In 1948 he helped set up the Films Division for news- reel and documentaries, where he worked as the chief producer in the newsreel department and also made documentaries. His active years were from 1932 to 1952 when he retired from the Films Division and from making feature films to settle in Bangalore. Sarvottam Badami( 1910- 2005) was an Indian film director of Hindi, Tamil and Telugu films. <SEP> Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV. <SEP> His career as director, spanning 127 feature films and dozens of TV episodes, lasted from 1936- 68. Before that, Selander was assistant director on films such as" The Cat and the Fiddle"( 1934)," A Night at the Opera"( 1935), and Fritz Lang's" Fury"( 1936). To this day Selander remains one of the most prolific directors of feature Westerns in cinema history, having taken the helm for 107 Westerns between his first directorial feature in 1936 and 1967. Lesley Selander( May 26, 1900 – December 5, 1979) was an American film director of Westerns and adventure movies. In 1956 he was nominated for the Directors Guild of America award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Television, for his work directing a 1954 episode of" Lassie". <SEP> Howard Winchel Koch( April 11, 1916 – February 16, 2001) was an American producer and director of film and television. <SEP> I Was An American Spy is a 1951 film dramatizing the true story of Claire Phillips, an American of Filipino descent who spied on the Japanese during World War II and was captured, tortured, and sentenced to death before being rescued. The film, produced by Allied Artists and directed by Lesley Selander, starred Ann Dvorak in the title role. In addition to obtaining the rights to her 1947 book" Manila Espionage", the filmmakers brought Phillips on as a technical adviser and she made personal appearances to promote the film, Phillipse and Dvorak became good friends, with Phillips admiring Dvorak's professional dedication in this difficult role. The film begins with General Mark W. Clark paying tribute to Claire Phillips and ends with General Clark awarding her the Medal of Freedom.