Question: Are director of film All Things Pass and director of film Knockout (1941 Film) both from the same country?

William Clemens( September 10, 1905 – April 29, 1980) was an American film director. Born in Saginaw, Michigan, Clemens began his Hollywood career as a film editor in 1931. His first directing project was" Man Hunt" in 1936. His major credits include" On Dress Parade" with the Dead End Kids, two Perry Mason mysteries(" The Case of the Velvet Claws" and" The Case of the Stuttering Bishop"), three films featuring detective Tom Lawrence, a.k.a. " The Falcon," four films based on the Nancy Drew series, and" Calling Philo Vance" in 1940. Clemens' final project was" The Thirteenth Hour" in 1947. He died in Los Angeles, California in 1980. <SEP> All Things Pass (literally "Gone, gone") is a 1979 television film directed by Paul Verhoeven. In Douglas Keesey's book on Verhoeven, he writes that the film is a coda to Verhoeven's previous film "Soldier of Orange" (1977). It concerns several Dutch resistance fighters 35 years after World War II who have sworn revenge on a Dutch SS officer who shot their friend during the Netherlands' resistance to Nazi occupation. Upon finding the man, they discover that he is now paralysed and would suffer more to stay alive than be killed. <SEP> Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV. <SEP> Active in both the Netherlands and Hollywood, Verhoeven's blending of graphic violence and sexual content with social satire are trademarks of both his drama and science fiction films. He directed the films" Turkish Delight"( 1973)," Soldier of Orange"( 1977)," Flesh and Blood"( 1985)," RoboCop"( 1987)," Total Recall"( 1990)," Basic Instinct"( 1992)," Showgirls"( 1995)," Starship Troopers"( 1997)," Black Book"( 2006) and" Elle"( 2016). " Turkish Delight" received the award for Best Dutch Film of the Century at the Netherlands Film Festival. His films altogether received a total of nine Academy Award nominations, mainly for editing and effects. Verhoeven won the Saturn Award for Best Director for" RoboCop". His Dutch war film" Black Book"( 2006) was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language and was voted by the Dutch public, in 2008, as the best Dutch film ever made. In contrast, he won the Golden Raspberry Awards for Worst Picture and Worst Director for" Showgirls"; he is one of the few people to have accepted their Golden Raspberry awards in person, and was the first person to go to the ceremony to receive it. In 2016 he directed the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film winning movie" Elle". " The Seattle Times" praised Verhoeven by saying," director Paul Verhoeven often appears to be a one- man Dutch movie industry," while" The San Diego Union- Tribune" called Verhoeven" a busy bee whose movies pollinate the festival circuit." Paul Verhoeven( born 18 July 1938) is a Dutch director, screenwriter and film producer. <SEP> Brian Johnson( born 1939 or 1940) is a British designer and director of film and television special effects. <SEP> The film stars Arthur Kennedy, Olympe Bradna, Virginia Field, Anthony Quinn, Cliff Edwards and Cornel Wilde. Knockout is a 1941 American drama film directed by William Clemens and written by M. Coates Webster. The film was released by Warner Bros. on March 29, 1941.