Question: Which film has the director who is older, The Duchess And The Dirtwater Fox or Life Is Sweet (Film)?

Life Is Sweet is a 1990 British tragicomedy film directed by Mike Leigh, starring Alison Steadman, Jim Broadbent, Claire Skinner, Jane Horrocks and Timothy Spall. Leigh's third cinematic film, it was his most commercially successful title at the time of release. The, by turns, tragi-comic story follows the fortunes of a working- class North London family over a few weeks one summer. <SEP> Simeon Fox( or Foxe), M.D.( 1568 – 1642) was an English physician, who became President of the College of Physicians. <SEP> The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox is a 1976 American western romantic comedy film starring Goldie Hawn and George Segal, produced, directed and co-written by Melvin Frank. <SEP> Bill Butler( 1933 – 4 June 2017) was an English film editor. He was known for editing" A Clockwork Orange"( 1971), for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing. Other notable films edited by Butler include" Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell"( 1968)," A Touch of Class"( 1973) and" The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox"( 1976), all directed by Melvin Frank. He died in Sherman Oaks, California in 2017. " A Clockwork Orange" was listed as the 40th best- edited film of all time in a 2012 survey of members of the Motion Picture Editors Guild. <SEP> He is known for his work on films such as" Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House"( 1948)," The Court Jester"( 1956), and" A Touch of Class"( 1973). Melvin Frank( 13 August 1913 – 13 October 1988) was an American screenwriter, film producer and film director. <SEP> He studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art( RADA), East 15 Acting School and further at the Camberwell School of Art, the Central School of Art and Design and London Film School. He began as a theatre director and playwright in the mid-1960s. In the 1970s and'80s his career moved between theatre work and making films for BBC Television. His well- known films include the comedy- dramas" Life Is Sweet"( 1990) and" Career Girls"( 1997), the Gilbert and Sullivan biographical film" Topsy- Turvy"( 1999) and the bleak working- class drama" All or Nothing"( 2002). His most notable works are the black comedy- drama" Naked"( 1993), for which he won the Best Director Award at Cannes, the Oscar- nominated, BAFTA and Palme d' Or- winning drama" Secrets& Lies"( 1996), the Golden Lion winning working- class drama" Vera Drake"( 2004), and the Palme d' Or nominated biopic" Mr. Turner"( 2014). Mike Leigh( born 20 February 1943) is an English writer and director of film and theatre. His stage plays include" Smelling A RatIt's A Great Big ShameGreek TragedyGoose- PimplesEcstasy" and" Abigail's Party". Leigh is known for his lengthy rehearsal and improvisation techniques with actors to build characters and narrative for his films. His purpose is to capture reality and present" emotional, subjective, intuitive, instinctive, vulnerable films." His films and stage plays, according to critic Michael Coveney," comprise a distinctive, homogenous body of work which stands comparison with anyone's in the British theatre and cinema over the same period." Leigh, Coveney said, has helped to create stars – Liz Smith in" Hard Labour", Alison Steadman in" Abigail's Party", Brenda Blethyn in" Grown- Ups", Antony Sher in" Goose- Pimples", Gary Oldman and Tim Roth in" Meantime", Jane Horrocks in" Life is Sweet", David Thewlis in" Naked—" and remarked that the list of actors who have worked with him over the years —including Paul Jesson, Phil Daniels, Lindsay Duncan, Lesley Sharp, Kathy Burke, Stephen Rea, Julie Walters –" comprises an impressive, almost representative, nucleus of outstanding British acting talent." His aesthetic has been compared to the sensibility of the Japanese director Yasujirō Ozu and the Italian Federico Fellini. Ian Buruma, writing in" The New York Review of Books" in January 1994, commented:" It is hard to get on a London bus or listen to the people at the next table in a cafeteria without thinking of Mike Leigh. Like other wholly original artists, he has staked out his own territory. Leigh's London is as distinctive as Fellini's Rome or Ozu's Tokyo."