Question: Which film has the director who was born first, Champion (1949 Film) or U 47 – Kapitänleutnant Prien?

He is known for the films he made based on Edgar Wallace and Karl May books( see Karl May movies and Edgar Wallace movies) and also made mountain films, Heimatfilms, German war films and entries in such popular German film series as" Dr. MabuseJerry Cotton" and" Kommissar X". Reinl began his career as an extra in the mountain films of Arnold Fanck. He worked as screenwriter on the film" Tiefland" directed by and starring Leni Riefenstahl. Reinl's first movie as director was the mountain film" Mountain Crystal"( 1949). He was Oscar nominated for his documentary feature" Chariots of the Gods"( 1970). By the 1970s, he had semi-retired to the Canary Islands. In 1986, in his Tenerife retirement home, he was stabbed to death by Daniela Maria Delis, his alcoholic wife and a former actress from Czechoslovakia. Harald Reinl( 8 July 1908 in Bad Ischl, Austria – 9 October 1986 in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain) was an Austrian film director. <SEP> It stars Dieter Eppler and Sabine Sesselmann and was directed by Harald Reinl. U 47 – Kapitänleutnant Prien is a 1958 black- and- white German war film portraying the World War II career of the U- boat captain Günther Prien. <SEP> Dieter Eppler( 11 February 1927 in Stuttgart – 12 April 2008 in Stuttgart) was a German television actor and director of radio dramas. He was born on February 11, 1927 in Stuttgart, Germany. He was an actor, known for" Jonas"( 1957)," The Country Doctor"( 1987) and" The Last Winter"( 1960). He was married to Magdalene Schnaitmann and they had five children. He was a prolific German character actor, seen in many TV crime series like" TatortDerrick" and" The Old Fox". In the 1950s and 1960s, he had leading roles in several Edgar Wallace adaptations. Often portraying military types, he was noted for his starring role in" U 47 – Kapitänleutnant Prien"( 1957). He also did horror as in the character of the evil vampire in the 1962 film" Slaughter of the Vampires". He stayed in Germany and worked there and in European films until his death in 2008. <SEP> Wale Adebanwi( born 1969) is a Nigerian- born first Black Rhodes Professor at St Antony's College, Oxford. <SEP> Mark Robson (4 December 1913 – 20 June 1978) was a Canadian-born film director, producer, and editor. Robson began his 45-year career in Hollywood as a film editor. He later began working as a director and producer. He directed thirty-four films during his career, including "The Bridges at Toko-Ri" (1955), "Peyton Place" (1957), for which he earned his first Oscar nomination, "Von Ryan's Express" (1965), and "Valley of the Dolls" (1967). Robson died of a heart attack after shooting his final film, "Avalanche Express", in 1978. The film was released a year after his death. <SEP> Champion is a 1949 American film noir drama sport film based on a short story by Ring Lardner. It recounts the struggles of boxer" Midge" Kelly fighting his own demons while working to achieve success in the boxing ring. The drama was directed by Mark Robson, with cinematography by Franz Planer. The drama features Kirk Douglas, Marilyn Maxwell, and Arthur Kennedy. The film won an Academy Award for Best Film Editing and gained five other nominations as well, including a Best Actor for Douglas. Several clips from the film were used in Douglas' 1999 film" Diamonds" to illustrate his character's career as a boxer.