Question: Which film has the director who died first, Mark Of The Frog or Kannukku Mai Ezhuthu?

Kannukku Mai Ezhuthu is a 1986 Tamil- language Indian feature film directed by J. Mahendran, starring Bhanumathi and Sujatha in lead roles. <SEP> Mahendran is regarded as one of the greatest film makers of Tamil cinema and has influenced several filmmakers of the generations followed. J. Alexander( 25 July 1939 – 2 April 2019), known professionally as Mahendran, was an Indian film director, screenwriter and actor, known for his work in the Tamil film industry. Mahendran entered the film industry as a screenwriter, writing scripts for nearly 26 films. He made an immediate impact with his first directional venture" Mullum Malarum"( 1978). Mahendran's next film" Uthiripookkal", based on a short story written by Pudumaipithan, firmly established him as an important filmmaker in Tamil cinema. His" Nenjathai Killathe" won three National Film Awards including the award for the best regional film. He has also acted in films during the latter part of his film career, including" Kamaraj"( 2004)," Theri"( 2016)," Nimir"( 2018) and" Petta"( 2019). Before his death, he was the head of the direction department of BOFTA Film Institute in Chennai. <SEP> Ben Palmer is a British film and television director who is known for being the director of" Bo' Selecta" and" The Inbetweeners". <SEP> Elizabeth Dawson Baker is an American children's novelist who made her international debut in 2002 with" The Frog Princess" which was a Texas Lone Star Reading List Book, A Book Sense Children's Pick, a Florida's Sunshine State Readers List pick and a 2006 Sasquatch Book Award nominee. " The Frog Princess" has also inspired a series of eight additional books based on it. " The Frog Princess" inspired the 2009 Disney film" The Princess and the Frog". <SEP> The film is now considered to be lost. Mark of the Frog is a 1928 American drama 10- chapter film serial directed by Arch Heath and written by Edgar Wallace. <SEP> He helped pioneer the introduction of the sound film. Many of his early films are now considered lost. Heath was born in Brooklyn. Before starting as a director, Heath played semi-pro baseball. He learned drawing as an office boy for a newspaper, and became a cartoonist for the sports page, finally succeeding Herbert Johnson at the Associated Newspapers Syndicate, signing his cartoons" Fields". He started in movies by creating campaign films for the presidential campaign of Woodrow Wilson in 1914. From cartooning he also moved on to movie animation. He became general manager of production at Eastern Film Corporation, based in New York City. At Eastern he produced his first serial" A Daughter of Uncle Sam", directed by James C. Morton, in 1918. He moved to Pathé Studios in New York. He directed his first serial," The Masked Menace", in 1927. In 1930, when the studio moved to Hollywood, Heath was appointed" production manager of all two- reel comedies." The Heath- directed 1928 film" Melody of Love" was" Universal's first 100 percent talkie feature," and" also may have been the first all- talking movie musical." Arch Heath( July 15, 1890 – January 7, 1945), also known as A. B. Heath and Arch B. Heath was an American film director and screenwriter, whose career spanned from the era of silent films to the 1940s. During World War II Heath produced films for the Signal Corps and the Office of War Information. He died at home in New York City on January 7, 1945. The Screen Writers Guild created the" Robert Meltzer Award" in honor of Heath, Meltzer and three others for" the writing of an American Film which, in addition to its value as entertainment, most effectively contributes to a better understanding or world problems."