Question: Are director of film The Brides Of Fu Manchu and director of film The Walking Dead (1995 Film) both from the same country?

The Blood of Fu Manchu, also known as Fu Manchu and the Kiss of Death, Kiss of Death, Kiss and Kill( U.S. title) and Against All Odds( original U.S. video title), is a 1968 British adventure crime film directed by Jesús Franco, based on the fictional Asian villain Dr. Fu Manchu created by Sax Rohmer. It was the fourth film in a series, and was preceded by" The Vengeance of Fu Manchu The Castle of Fu Manchu" followed in 1969. It was produced by Harry Alan Towers for Udastex Films. It starred Christopher Lee as Dr. Fu Manchu, Richard Greene as Scotland Yard detective Nayland Smith, and Howard Marion- Crawford as Dr. Petrie. The movie was filmed in Spain and Brazil. Shirley Eaton appears in a scene that she claimed she was never paid for; apparently, the director Jesús Franco had inserted some stock footage of her from one of her films(" The Girl from Rio"( 1968)) into the film without telling her. She only found out years later that she had been in a Fu Manchu film. <SEP> The Castle of Fu Manchu( also known as The Torture Chamber of Dr. Fu Manchu and also known by its German title Die Folterkammer des Dr. Fu Man Chu) is a 1969 film and the fifth and final Dr. Fu Manchu film with Christopher Lee portraying the title character. <SEP> The film depicts the lives of five Marines who are all assigned to rescue a group of POW during the Vietnam War in 1972. The Walking Dead is a 1995 war film written and directed by Preston A. Whitmore II and starring Allen Payne, Joe Morton and Eddie Griffin. It opened to poor reviews and low box office receipts. Previews billed it as" the black experience in Vietnam". The box- office gross was over$ 6,000,000.00. <SEP> Like the first film, it was directed by Don Sharp, and starred Christopher Lee as Fu Manchu. The Brides of Fu Manchu is a 1966 British/ West German Constantin Film co-production adventure crime film based on the fictional Chinese villain Dr. Fu Manchu, created by Sax Rohmer. It was the second film in a series, and was preceded by" The Face of Fu ManchuThe Vengeance of Fu Manchu" followed in 1967," The Blood of Fu Manchu" in 1968, and" The Castle of Fu Manchu" in 1969. It was produced by Harry Alan Towers for Hallam Productions. Nigel Green was replaced by Douglas Wilmer as Scotland Yard detective Nayland Smith. The action takes place mainly in London, where much of the location filming took place. <SEP> Donald Herman Sharp( 19 April 192114 December 2011) was an Australian- born British film director. His best known films were made for Hammer in the 1960s, and included" The Kiss of the Vampire"( 1962) and" Rasputin, the Mad Monk"( 1966). In 1965 he directed" The Face of Fu Manchu", based on the character created by Sax Rohmer, and starring Christopher Lee. Sharp also directed the sequel" The Brides of Fu Manchu"( 1966). In the 1980s he was also responsible for several hugely popular miniseries adapted from the novels of Barbara Taylor Bradford. <SEP> Preston Whitmore is best known for his 2007 comedy-drama "This Christmas". The film garnered Preston an NAACP Image Award nomination for Outstanding Directing in 2008. Whitmore has a number of television and feature film projects in development at his Los Angeles based production company, The Preston Picture Company. Preston Alexander Whitmore II (born June 26, 1962) is an American film director, film producer, and screenwriter.