Question: Are director of film Creature from the Black Lagoon and director of film The Wreck in the North Sea from the same country?

Hanro Smitsman, born in 1967 in Breda( Netherlands), is a writer and director of film and television. <SEP> Benjamin F. Chapman, Jr.( October 29, 1928 – February 21, 2008) was an American actor best known as playing the Gill- man on land in the 1954 horror film" Creature from the Black Lagoon". <SEP> The Creature was played by Ben Chapman on land and by Ricou Browning underwater. Creature from the Black Lagoon is a 1954 American black- and- white 3 D monster horror film from Universal- International, produced by William Alland, directed by Jack Arnold, that stars Richard Carlson, Julia Adams, Richard Denning, Antonio Moreno and Whit Bissell. The film premiered in Detroit on February 12 and was released on a regional basis, opening on various dates. " Creature from the Black Lagoon" was filmed in 3D and originally projected by the polarized light method. The audience wore viewers with gray polarizing filters, similar to the viewers most commonly used today. Because the brief 1950s 3 D film fad had peaked in mid-1953 and was fading fast in early 1954, many audiences actually saw the film" flat", in 2D. Typically, the film was shown in 3D in large downtown theaters and flat in smaller neighborhood theaters. In 1975" Creature from the Black Lagoon" was re-released to theaters in the inferior red-and- blue- glasses anaglyph 3 D format, which was also used for a 1980 home video release on Beta and VHS videocassettes. For marketing reasons, a comedic appearance with Abbott and Costello on an episode of" The Colgate Comedy Hour" aired prior to the film's release. The appearance is commonly known as" Abbott and Costello Meet the Creature from the Black Lagoon". Ben Chapman reprised his role as the Gill- Man for the program. " Creature from the Black Lagoon" generated two sequels:" Revenge of the Creature"( 1955), which was also filmed and released in 3D in hopes of reviving the format, and" The Creature Walks Among Us"( 1956), filmed in 2D. The Creature, also known as the Gill- Man, is usually counted among the classic Universal Monsters. <SEP> Theodorus Maurita Frenkel (14 July 1871 – 20 September 1956) was a Dutch film director, actor and screenwriter of the silent era. He worked in Britain under the name Theo Bouwmeester, using the surname of his renowned mother and uncle (both accomplished actors), before working in Germany in 1913 and 1914 and then returning to the Netherlands, a neutral country, before World War I. He directed 214 films between 1908 and 1928. He also appeared in 21 films between 1911 and 1948. His nephew Theo Frenkel Jr. (1893–1955) was a film actor. <SEP> It is a short romantic silent movie, about a fisherman called Arend who leaves his beloved Marie to fish again in the North Sea for his work. The desperate Jan van der Velde( who secretly loves Marie) has sabotaged Arend's boat before he leaves. It sinks, and Marie never hears of him again. She finds some comfort in Jan's embrace, but later hears of Jan's sabotage. The Wreck in the North Sea is a 1915 Dutch silent drama film directed by Theo Frenkel. Jan gets arrested, but then comes good news, Arend is still alive and returns into Marie's arms. <SEP> His most notable films are" It Came from Outer Space"( 1953)," Creature from the Black Lagoon"( 1954)," Tarantula"( 1955), and" The Incredible Shrinking Man"( 1957). Jack Arnold( October 14, 1916 – March 17, 1992) was an American actor and film and television director, best known as one of the leading filmmakers of 1950s science fiction films.