Question: Are both director of film Nirmalyam and director of film The Sporting Duchess (1920 Film) from the same country?

George Terwilliger( February 27, 1882 – December 12, 1970) was an American film director and screenwriter of silent and early sound- era films. He directed 76 films between 1912 and 1936. He also wrote 54 films between 1910 and 1939. He died in Hialeah, Florida. <SEP> It is based on the 1895 play" The Sporting Duchess" by Henry Hamilton, Cecil Raleigh, and Augustus Thomas. It was produced and released by the Vitagraph Company of America. The Sporting Duchess is a lost 1920 American silent drama film directed by George Terwilliger and starring Alice Joyce. <SEP> He is a prolific and versatile writer in modern Malayalam literature, and is one of the masters of post -Independence Indian literature. Madath Thekkepaattu Vasudevan Nair( born 9 August 1933), popularly known as MT, is an Indian author, screenplay writer and film director. He was born in Kudallur, a small village in the present day Anakkara panchayath in Pattambi Taluk, Palakkad district( Palghat), which was under the Malabar District in the Madras Presidency of the British Raj. He shot into fame at the age of 20 when, as a chemistry undergraduate, he won the prize for the best short story in Malayalam at World Short Story Competition conducted by" The New York Herald Tribune". His debut novel" NaalukettuAncestral Home"- translated to English as" The Legacy"), wrote at the age of 23, won the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award in 1958. His other novels include" ManjuMistKaalamTimeAsuravithu The Prodigal Son"- translated to English as" The Demon Seed") and" Randamoozham The Second Turn"). The deep emotional experiences of his early days have gone into the making of MT's novels. Most of his works are oriented towards the basic Malayalam family structure and culture and many of them were path- breaking in the history of Malayalam literature. His three seminal novels on life in the matriarchal family in Kerala are" NaalukettuAsuravithu", and" KaalamRandamoozham", which retells the story of the" Mahabharatha" from the point of view of Bhimasena, is widely credited as his masterpiece. M. T. Vasudevan Nair is a script writer and director of Malayalam films. He has directed seven films and written the screenplay for around 54 films. He won the National Film Award for Best Screenplay four times for:" Oru Vadakkan Veeragatha"( 1989)," Kadavu"( 1991)," Sadayam"( 1992), and" Parinayam"( 1994), which is the most by anyone in the screenplay category. He was awarded the highest literary award in India, Njnanpeedam, in 1995 for his overall contribution to Malayalam literature. In 2005, India's third highest civilian honour Padma Bhushan was awarded to him. He has won numerous other awards and recognition including Kendra Sahitya Akademi Award, Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award, Vayalar Award, Vallathol Award, Ezhuthachan Award and Mathrubhumi Literary Award. He was awarded the J.C. Daniel Award for lifetime achievement in Malayalam cinema for the year 2013. He served as the editor of" Mathrubhumi Illustrated Weekly" for several years. <SEP> Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV. <SEP> Brian Johnson( born 1939 or 1940) is a British designer and director of film and television special effects. <SEP> The film received the National Film Award for Best Feature Film and Kerala State Film Award for Best Film in 1974. It is one of the classics in Malayalam cinema. It is the debut of M. T. Vasudevan Nair as director and also the debut of Sukumaran and Sumithra as actors. It is the second movie of Ravi Menon, who acted earlier in a Hindi movie. This movie was a breakthrough in Ravi Menon's acting career. Nirmalyam( meaning Remains or Yesterday's Offerings) is a 1973 Malayalam film written and directed by M. T. Vasudevan Nair, and starring P. J. Antony and Shanta Devi. Malayalam actor P. J. Antony won the National Film Award for Best Actor in 1974 for his performance as a" velichappadu"( an oracle or a medium between the Goddess and the worshipper in a Hindu temple) in this movie. The movie is an adaptation of the short story" Pallivalum Kalchilambum" by M. T. Vasudevan Nair.