Question: Which film has the director born earlier, Captain Horatio Hornblower or Cruise Into Terror?

He was known for portraying John Wilkes Booth in the silent classic" The Birth of a Nation"( 1915) and for directing such films as" The Big Trail"( 1930), starring John Wayne," High Sierra"( 1941), starring Ida Lupino and Humphrey Bogart; and" White Heat"( 1949), starring James Cagney and Edmond O'Brien. He directed his last film in 1964. Raoul A. Walsh( March 11, 1887 December 31, 1980) was an American film director, actor, founding member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences( AMPAS) and the brother of the silent screen actor George Walsh. <SEP> Cruise Into Terror is a 1978 American made- for- television horror film starring Dirk Benedict, John Forsythe, Frank Converse, Ray Milland and Stella Stevens. Directed by Bruce Kessler, it originally premiered February 3, 1978 on ABC. <SEP> Alec Mango( 16 March 1911 – November 1989) was an English actor. He is best known for portraying El Supremo in the 1951" Captain Horatio Hornblower", he also appeared in" South of Algiers"( 1953)," The Strange World of Planet X"( 1958)," The 7th Voyage of Sinbad"( 1958)," Danger Man"( 1961), and" Frankenstein Created Woman"( 1967). <SEP> Jacques Décombe is a French author, actor and director born in 1953. <SEP> He entered one World Championship Formula One Grand Prix( Monaco 1958) with a Connaught owned by Bernie Ecclestone, but failed to qualify, although he posted the 21st fastest time of the 28 entrants. Kessler born in Seattle, Washington and grew up in Beverly Hills, California. He was the son of a clothing designer. In the early 1950s he started racing his mother's Jaguar XK120 in the Sports Car Club of America races at sixteen years old. He raced the road race courses at Paramount Ranch and Willow Springs in California. He was a team driver along with Chuck Daigh for the Scarab race cars built by his good friend Lance Reventlow in the late 1950s. Kessler and Reventlow, driving Reventlow's Mercedes- Benz SL aluminum coupe had stopped at Blackwells Corner on CA Rt. 466/133 on September 30, 1955 on their way to the Salinas Road Races when James Dean and his mechanic, Rolf Wutherich pulled in with Dean's Porsche Spyder. They all agreed to meet for dinner at Paso Robles, about 60 miles away that evening. Reventlow and Kessler took off 10 minutes earlier. Dean never made it as he was involved in a fatal two- car crash at Rt. 466/41 near Cholame 30 miles away. Kessler, today, remains the last person alive who spoke with James Dean before his death. The Scarabs won the International Grand Prix at Riverside, California beating the famous driver Phil Hill and the Ferrari team. Kessler was invited to Europe to drive at Le Mans. On 22 March 1958 Kessler became class winner at" 12 hour Florida International Grand Prix of Endurance for the AMOCO Trophy"( 12 h Sebring), driving a Ferrari 250 GT LWB(# 0773 GT). After a serious crash at the 1959 Examiner Grand Prix at Pomona, California, he spent days in a coma. Soon after, he retired from racing. Kessler came back to California and became a film and television director. He directed many television films and series. Bruce Kessler( born March 23, 1936) is an American racing driver and film and television director. One of his earliest efforts was a short film he directed on the Scarab race car for his friend Lance Reventlow called" The Sound of Speed". As a film and television director, some his credits include" Angels from HellThe Monkees The Flying NunIt Takes a ThiefMarcus Welby, M.D. The Rockford FilesMcCloudCHi Ps The Greatest American Hero The A- TeamMickey Spillane's Mike Hammer Hunter" and" Renegade", his last directing credit. Kessler was also a world class skeet and trap shooter. He is now retired in Marina Del Rey, California. <SEP> The film is based on three of C. S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower novels:" The Happy ReturnBeat to Quarters" in the United States)," A Ship of the Line", and" Flying Colours". Forester is credited with the screen adaptation. Captain Horatio Hornblower( a.k.a. Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. in the UK," R.N." standing for" Royal Navy") is a 1951 British- American naval swashbuckling war film in Technicolor from Warner Bros., produced by Gerry Mitchell, directed by Raoul Walsh, that stars Gregory Peck, Virginia Mayo, Robert Beatty and Terence Morgan.