Question: Are director of film Smokey and the Bandit II and director of film Beautiful Star both from the same country?

He is best known for his frequent collaborations with actor Burt Reynolds, usually in films involving fast cars, such as" Smokey and the BanditHooper The Cannonball Run" and" Stroker Ace". Hal Brett Needham( March 6, 1931 – October 25, 2013) was an American stuntman, film director, actor and writer. <SEP> The film is the sequel to the 1977 film" Smokey and the Bandit". The film was originally released in the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Australia and several other, mainly Commonwealth countries as Smokey and the Bandit Ride Again. Early video releases and TV broadcasts also used this title, but in more recent years most have reverted to the original U.S. title. It was followed by another sequel three years later," Smokey and the Bandit Part 3"( 1983), in which Reynolds only made a brief cameo appearance, and Sally Field did not appear. The plot centers on Bo" Bandit" Darville( Burt Reynolds) and Cledus" Snowman" Snow( Jerry Reed), transporting an elephant to the GOP National Convention, with Sheriff Buford T. Justice( Jackie Gleason) in hot pursuit once again. Smokey and the Bandit II is a 1980 American action comedy film directed by Hal Needham, and stars Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, Jerry Reed, Jackie Gleason and Dom DeLuise. <SEP> Smokey and the Bandit Part 3 is a 1983 American action comedy film and a sequel to" Smokey and the Bandit"( 1977) and" Smokey and the Bandit II"( 1980), starring Jackie Gleason, Jerry Reed, Paul Williams, Pat McCormick, Mike Henry and Colleen Camp. The film also includes a cameo near the film's end by the original Bandit, Burt Reynolds. With the budget of a television movie, which was around twice the budget used for the first part, many action and comedic scenes are rehashes of scenes from the previous two" Smokey and the Bandit" films. The film received overwhelming negative reviews from critics and audiences alike. <SEP> He came from a Florentine family who had settled in Provence in the 15th century, occupying a building in the centre of Avignon then called the Baroncelli Palace (now the Palais du Roure). His father's side of the family were of Tuscan origin and part of the Ghibelline tradition, and they were hereditary Marquises of Javon. Though somewhat aristocratic, the family spoke Provençal, which was rather controversial at a time when it was considered to be a language of the common people. Jacques de Baroncelli (25 June 1881 – 12 January 1951) was a French film director best known for his silent films from 1915 to the late 1930s. His brother was Folco de Baroncelli-Javon, He directed well over 80 films between 1915 and 1948 and in the 1940s released numerous films in the United States and Italy. One of his films, a version of the Pierre Louÿs novel "La Femme et le pantin" (1928) was filmed in the experimental Keller-Dorian color process. <SEP> The film's sets were designed by the art directors Paul- Louis Boutié and Georges Wakhévitch. Beautiful Star( French: Belle Étoile) is a 1938 French comedy drama film directed by Jacques de Baroncelli and starring Michel Simon, Meg Lemonnier, and Jean- Pierre Aumont. <SEP> Smokey and the Bandit is a 1977 American action comedy film starring Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, Jackie Gleason, Jerry Reed, Pat McCormick, Paul Williams and Mike Henry. The film was the directorial debut of stuntman Hal Needham. The film follows Bo "Bandit" Darville (Reynolds) and Cledus "Snowman" Snow (Reed), two bootleggers, as they attempt to drive from Atlanta to Texarkana, pick up 400 cases of Coors beer, and illegally transport it back to Atlanta in 28 hours or less. While Snow drives the truck carrying the beer, the Bandit drives a Pontiac Trans Am to distract law enforcement and keep the attention off Snow. During their run, they are relentlessly pursued by Buford T. Justice (Gleason), a blusterous Texas county sheriff. "Smokey and the Bandit" was followed by two sequels: "Smokey and the Bandit II" (1980) and "Smokey and the Bandit Part 3" (1983). "Smokey and the Bandit" was the second highest-grossing domestic film of 1977, second only to "Star Wars", the first film in the original "Star Wars" trilogy.