Question: Are both directors of films Hellgate (2011 Film) and Abbott And Costello In Hollywood from the same country?

John Penney is an American film producer, screenwriter and director who has been working in the horror genre for over thirty years. He has created material for, and been involved in, a range of subgenres, including zombie movies(" Return of the Living Dead III"), classic Creature Features(" Amphibious"), and supernatural thrillers(" Hellgate"). <SEP> He began his film career at Warner Bros. in 1935, directing screen tests. In 1937, Simon moved to MGM, where he worked on the Marx Brothers'" The Big Store", supervising many of the slapstick sequences. He directed Red Skelton's first starring feature, 1941's" Whistling in the Dark", and later worked on two more Skelton vehicles," A Southern Yankee" and" The Fuller Brush Man", in 1948. Simon also directed Wallace Beery in" Bad Bascomb"( 1946), and a Glenn Ford western," Lust for Gold"( 1949). S. Sylvan Simon( March 9, 1910 – May 17, 1951) was an American stage/ film director and producer. Simon was the producer of" Born Yesterday", a 1950 comedy that was nominated for five Academy Awards. He then suddenly died of a heart attack at the age of 41. His ashes were interred in a small unassuming bronze nameplate niche at Columbarium of Memory( Niche# 20174), in the Great Mausoleum at Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, Glendale, California. <SEP> In Society is a 1944 film starring the comedy team of Abbott and Costello. It was the first of five Abbott and Costello films to be directed by Jean Yarbrough. It was re-released in 1953. <SEP> Hellgate( originally titled Shadows) is a 2011 American- Thai supernatural thriller directed and written by John Penney, starring William Hurt and Cary Elwes. Elwes plays the sole survivor of a car crash who, upon seeing ghosts, seeks help from a spiritual guru( Hurt). <SEP> Made by Metro- Goldwyn- Mayer, it was produced by Martin A. Gosch. Abbott and Costello in Hollywood( on screen title Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood) is a 1945 black- and- white comedy film directed by S. Sylvan Simon and starring the comedy team of Abbott and Costello. <SEP> Robert Arthur( November 1, 1909 – October 28, 1986) was an American screenwriter and producer. Born in New York as Robert Arthur Feder, he attended Southwestern University and the University of Southern California before going to work in the oil industry in 1929. He began working as a screenwriter and joined MGM in 1937, where he wrote the screenplay for" New Moon"( 1940) and the story for" Chip Off the Old Block"( 1944). During World War II he served under Pare Lorentz in the Army's Air Transport Command and produced 600 short training films. After the war, he joined Universal Pictures and his first production was the successful" Buck Privates Come Home"( 1947) starring Abbott and Costello. He produced five further films for Abbott and Costello-" The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap"( 1947)," Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein"( 1948)," Mexican Hayride"( 1948)," Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff"( 1949) and" Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion"( 1950). He produced the first of the popular" Francis the Talking Mule" film series in 1950 as well as the last," Francis in the Haunted House"( 1956). He also wrote the story for" Francis Goes to the Races". He left Universal and made" Starlift"( 1951) and" The Story of Will Rogers"( 1952) for Warner Bros. and" The Big Heat"( 1953) and" The Long Gray Line" for Columbia Pictures before returning back to Universal. He signed Stanley Shapiro who wrote several commercially successful comedies for Arthur including" The Perfect Furlough"( 1958)," Operation Petticoat"( 1959)," Lover Come Back"( 1961) and" That Touch of Mink"( 1962). The first two films were directed by Blake Edwards which helped launch his career. He also produced Bobby Darrin's debut film" Come September"( 1961). In 1965, he signed a" lifetime" contract with Universal. At that time, 5 of Universal's top 10 highest- grossing films had been produced by Arthur-" Operation Petticoat That Touch of MinkCome SeptemberLover Come Back" and" Shenandoah"( 1965). " A Man Could Get Killed"( 1966) was his 50th production. His last film as producer was" One More Train to Rob"( 1971). Arthur died in 1986 at the age of seventy- six and was interred in Forest Lawn – Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles.