Question: Which film has the director who was born first, The Garbage Pail Kids Movie or X: The Man With The X-Ray Eyes?

Joe Simko is a New York City based illustrator who has contributed to Topps ’ Garbage Pail Kids and Wacky Packages trading cards. Producer/ Co- Director of the Garbage Pail Kids documentary film, 30 Years of Garbage. He is the illustrator/ author of the book series," The Sweet Rot", and he designs artwork for bands, creating album covers, tour posters and concert shirts. His project" Cereal Killers Trading Cards", 1st Series was released May 2, 2011. The Cereal Killers cards spoof breakfast cereals with popular horror films. Joe wrote and painted all 55 cards for the first and second set and launched the series through his new company, Wax Eye. " Cereal Killers", 2nd Series was released through Wax Eye in June 2012. Wax Eye's first mobile app game for the IOS platform," Cereal Boom", is based on characters from Simko's Cereal Killers card series. <SEP> The Garbage Pail Kids It is the last film to be directed by Amateau before his retirement in 1989 and death in 2003. The cards were a parody of the popular" Cabbage Patch Kids" dolls and each card featured a character that typically had a gross habit, an abnormality, or suffered a terrible fate. The film depicted seven of the Garbage Pail Kids( played by dwarf actors in animatronic costumes) interacting with society and befriending a regular boy. The film is widely considered to be one of the worst films ever made. It was a box- office bomb, earning only$ 1.6 million on a$ 1 million budget. Movie is a 1987 American live- action film adaptation of the then- popular children's trading cards series of the same name produced, directed, and co-written by Rod Amateau. The cards were nominated for the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst New Star category( but lost to David Mendenhall for Sylvester Stallone's" Over the Top") and the song" You Can Be a Garbage Pail Kid" was nominated for Worst Original Song( but lost to George Michael's controversial hit" I Want Your Sex" from Eddie Murphy's" Beverly Hills Cop II"). <SEP> Among the programs that he directed were" The Dennis Day ShowThe Many Loves of Dobie GillisMister EdGilligan's Island The Bob Cummings Show" and" The New Phil Silvers Show". He produced" My Mother the Car" and" Supertrain", and wrote the story for the 1988 film" Sunset". Amateau also directed a few episodes of" The Dukes of Hazzard", and appeared in a handful of episodes as an actor as well. In 1987, he directed, produced and co-wrote" The Garbage Pail Kids Movie", which is considered to be one of the worst films ever made. From 1945 to 1949, he was married to actress Coleen Gray, who sued him for child support in 1955. From 1959 to 1962, he was married to Sandra Burns, daughter of George Burns and Gracie Allen. Rodney" Rod" Amateau( December 20, 1923 – June 29, 2003) was an American film and television screenwriter, director, and producer. <SEP> The film, written by Ray Russell and Robert Dillon, is notable for featuring comedian Don Rickles in a straight dramatic role. Veteran character actor Morris Ankrum makes an uncredited appearance in his final role. American International Pictures distributed the film in the fall of 1963 as a double feature with the Francis Ford Coppola- directed horror thriller" Dementia 13". Corman described the success of the film, which was shot in three weeks on a budget of under$ 300,000, as a miracle. X: The Man with the X-ray Eyes is a 1963 independently made color science fiction- horror film, produced and directed by Roger Corman, that stars Ray Milland. Notable for its use of special effects to portray Dr. Xavier's greatly enhanced vision, the film's effects, though crude by today's standards, are still effective in conveying to the audience the protagonist's bizarre viewpoint. <SEP> Katie Barberi( born January 22, 1972) is a Mexican American actress known for her work in telenovelas. Her acting career was widely damaged due to the negative reception of" The Garbage Pail Kids Movie". <SEP> He has been called" The Pope of Pop Cinema" and is known as a trailblazer in the world of independent film. Much of Corman's work has an established critical reputation, such as his cycle of low- budget cult films adapted from the tales of Edgar Allan Poe. Admired by members of the French New Wave and" Cahiers du cinéma", in 1964 Corman was the youngest filmmaker to have a retrospective at the Cinémathèque Française, as well as in the British Film Institute and the Museum of Modern Art. He was the co-founder of New World Pictures, a prolific multimedia company that helped to cement Fox as a major American television network, and is a longtime member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. In 2009, he was awarded an Honorary Academy Award" for his rich engendering of films and filmmakers." Corman mentored and gave a start to many young film directors such as Francis Ford Coppola, Ron Howard, Martin Scorsese, Jonathan Demme, John Sayles, and James Cameron, and was highly influential in the New Hollywood filmmaking movement of the 1960s and 1970s. He also helped to launch the careers of actors like Peter Fonda, Jack Nicholson, Dennis Hopper, Bruce Dern, Sylvester Stallone, Diane Ladd, and William Shatner. Corman has occasionally taken minor acting roles in the films of directors who started with him, including" The Silence of the Lambs The Godfather Part IIApollo 13 The Manchurian Candidate" and" Philadelphia". A documentary about Corman's life and career entitled, directed by Alex Stapleton, premiered at the Sundance and Cannes Film Festivals in 2011. The film's TV rights were picked up by A&E IndieFilms after a well- received screening at Sundance. Roger William Corman( born April 5, 1926) is an American director, producer, and actor.