Question: Which film has the director died earlier, Murder By Decree or Wandering Footsteps?

He directed 142 films between 1915 and 1949. Philip E. Rosen( May 8, 1888 – October 22, 1951) was an American film director and cinematographer. He was born in Marienburg, German Empire( now, Malbork, Poland), grew up in Machias, Maine, and died in Hollywood, California of a heart attack. He was one of the founders of the American Society of Cinematographers. Rosen was married to model and actress Joyzelle Joyner. <SEP> Wandering Footsteps is a 1925 American silent melodrama film directed by Phil Rosen and starring Alec B. Francis, Estelle Taylor, and Bryant Washburn. It was released on October 23, 1925. <SEP> He is best known for his work in the Canadian film industry throughout the 1970s and 1980s, where he was responsible for some of the most successful films in Canadian film history such as" Black Christmas"( 1974)," Murder by Decree"( 1979)," Tribute"( 1980)," Porky's"( 1981), and" A Christmas Story"( 1983). He won three Genie Awards( two Best Direction and one Best Screenplay) with two additional nominations. Benjamin" Bob" Clark( August 5, 1939 – April 4, 2007) was an American director, screenwriter, producer, and actor. <SEP> Barbara Stager( born October 30, 1948) is an American woman who was convicted in 1989 of murdering her husband, Russell Stager, in 1988. Stager is also suspected of the earlier murder of her first husband, Larry Ford, who died in nearly identical circumstances. <SEP> Murder by Contract is a 1958 American film noir crime film directed by Irving Lerner. Academy Award- nominated screenwriter Ben Maddow did uncredited work on the film. Centering on an existentialist hit man assigned to kill a woman, the film is often praised for its spare style and peculiar sense of cool. Though not widely seen at the time of its release, it finally appeared on DVD, included in the boxed set" Columbia Pictures Film Noir Classics, Vol. 1( The Big Heat/ 5 Against the House/ The Lineup/ Murder by Contract/ The Sniper)," released November 3, 2009. The film has exerted an influence on American cinema, most notably on director Martin Scorsese, who famously cited" Murder by Contract" as" the film that has influenced[ him] most." <SEP> It features the Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson characters created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who are embroiled in the investigation surrounding the real- life 1888 Whitechapel murders committed by" Jack the Ripper". Christopher Plummer plays Holmes and James Mason plays Watson. Though it features a similar premise, it is notably different in tone and result to" A Study in Terror". It is loosely based on" The Ripper File" by Elwyn Jones and John Lloyd. The film's premise of the plot behind the murders is influenced by the book, by Stephen Knight, who presumed that the killings were part of a Masonic plot. Murder by Decree is a 1979 British- Canadian mystery thriller film directed by Bob Clark. The original script contained the names of the historical suspects, Sir William Gull and John Netley. In the actual film, they are represented by fictional analogues: Thomas Spivy( Gull) and William Slade( Netley). This plot device was later used in other Jack the Ripper- themed fiction, including the graphic novel" From Hell."