Question: Do director of film The Ring (2002 Film) and director of film Captain Newman, M.D. share the same nationality?

Peck's Brentwood Production also co-produced the film. The film is based on the 1961 novel by Leo Rosten. It was loosely based on the World War II experiences of Rosten's close friend Ralph Greenson, M.D., while Greenson was a captain in the Army Medical Corps supporting the U.S. Army Air Forces and stationed at Yuma Army Airfield in Yuma, Arizona. Greenson is well known for his work on" empathy" and was one of the first in his field to seriously associate posttraumatic stress disorder( years before that terminology was developed) with wartime experiences. He was a director of the Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Institute and was a practicing Freudian. Greenson is perhaps best known for his patients, who included Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra, Tony Curtis and Vivien Leigh. Captain Newman, M.D. is a 1963 American comedy drama film directed by David Miller and starring Gregory Peck, Tony Curtis, Angie Dickinson, Robert Duvall, Eddie Albert and Bobby Darin. Major filming took place at the U.S. Army's Fort Huachuca complex in southern Arizona, with the co-located Libby Army Airfield used to portray the fictional Colfax Army Air Field. The story was used as a 1972 television pilot of the same title produced by Danny Thomas Productions starring Jim Hutton in the title role and Joan Van Ark as Lt Corum. <SEP> Gregor" Gore" Verbinski( born March 16, 1964) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer and musician. He is best known for directing the first three films of the" Pirates of the Caribbean" film saga," The Ring", and" Rango". Verbinski is a graduate of UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. His most recent film," A Cure for Wellness", was released in 2017. Verbinski won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature, the BAFTA Award for Best Animated Film and the Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film in 2012 for his animated action- comedy western" Rango". <SEP> Rachel Feldman( born August 22, 1954) is an American director of film and television and screenwriter of television films. <SEP> Hanro Smitsman, born in 1967 in Breda( Netherlands), is a writer and director of film and television. <SEP> It is a remake of the 1998 Japanese horror film" Ring", based on the novel of the same name by Koji Suzuki. Watts portrays a journalist who investigates a cursed videotape that seemingly kills the viewer seven days after watching it. " The Ring" was released theatrically on October 18, 2002, and received mostly positive reviews. Many critics praised the direction, screenplay, cinematography, Watts's performance, and reliance on dread and visuals over gore, but criticized the lack of character development. The film grossed over$ 249 million worldwide on a$ 48 million production budget, making it one of the highest- grossing horror remakes. It is the first installment of the American" Ring" series, and is followed by" The Ring Two" and" Rings", was released in 2005 and 2017, respectively. " The Ring" paved the way for English- language remakes of Asian horror films, such as" The GrudgeDark WaterPulse One Missed Call The EyeShutter Mirrors" and" The Uninvited". The Ring is a 2002 American supernatural horror film directed by Gore Verbinski and starring Naomi Watts, Martin Henderson, David Dorfman, Brian Cox, and Daveigh Chase. <SEP> ( November 28, 1909 – April 14, 1992) was an American film director who directed such varied films as" Billy the Kid"( 1941) with Robert Taylor and Brian Donlevy," Flying Tigers"( 1943) with John Wayne, and" Love Happy"( 1949) with the Marx Brothers. David Miller Miller directed" Lonely Are the Brave"( 1962) with Kirk Douglas; Emanuel Levy wrote in 2009 that it" is the most accomplished film of David Miller, who directs with eloquent feeling for landscape and attention to character." Others feel that Miller's filmic masterpiece is his 1952 Noir thriller and Joan Crawford vehicle" Sudden Fear" co-starring the terrific and terrifying Jack Palance and Gloria Grahame at her most magnificent. In addition," Sudden Fear" was nominated for four Academy Awards for Best Actress( Crawford); Best Actor( Palance); Best Costume Design; and Best Cinematography Charles Lang. This would be the first time Crawford competed with her arch-rival Bette Davis for Best Actress. Both lost to Shirley Booth for her performance in" Come Back Little Sheba".