Question: Are both directors of films Abraham Lincoln (1924 Film Short) and All Hands On Deck (Film) from the same country?

From 1920 to 1968, Taurog directed 180 films. Norman Rae Taurog( February 23, 1899 – April 7, 1981) was an American film director and screenwriter. At the age of 32, he received the Academy Award for Best Director for" Skippy"( 1931). He is the second youngest person ever to win the award after Damien Chazelle, who won for" La La Land" in 2017. He was later nominated for Best Director for the film" Boys Town"( 1938). He directed some of the best- known actors of the twentieth century, including his nephew Jackie Cooper, Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Deanna Durbin, Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Deborah Kerr, Peter Lawford, Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, and Elvis Presley. Taurog directed six Martin and Lewis films, and nine Elvis Presley films, more than any other director. For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Norman Taurog has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1600 Vine Street. <SEP> Damon Davis( born 1985) is a multi-media American artist, musician and filmmaker based in St. Louis, Missouri. His 2014 public art installation" All Hands on Deck" has been collected in the National Museum of African American History and Culture. He is also a founder of Far- Fetched, a St. Louis- based artist collective, and co-director of" Whose Streets?", a documentary on the Ferguson unrest following police officer Darren Wilson's fatal shooting of Michael Brown. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2017. <SEP> All Hands on Deck is a 1961 American DeLuxe musical film in CinemaScope directed by Norman Taurog and starring Pat Boone as a naval officer. It is based on the novel" Warm Bodies" by Donald R. Morris. <SEP> Abraham Lincoln( 1924) is a short film made in the Phonofilm sound- on- film process. McGlynn also played Lincoln in the play on Broadway. Although no copies of the film appear to have survived, some photographs have been preserved. The film was directed by J. Searle Dawley, produced by Lee DeForest, is based on the 1918 play" Abraham Lincoln" by John Drinkwater, and stars Frank McGlynn Sr. as Lincoln. In 1923, DeForest and Dawley produced a short Phonofilm," Lincoln, Man of the People", with Edwin Markham reading his poem of that title. In 1925, DeForest produced a Phonofilm," Memories of Lincoln", with 91- year- old Chauncey Depew giving his recollections of meeting Lincoln in person. <SEP> He directed 149 silent films between 1907 and 1926. He was born in Del Norte, Colorado, and died in Hollywood, California. Searley is best remembered for directing the Thomas Edison version of" Frankenstein" in 1910. He reportedly referred to himself as" the first motion picture director", which was not accurate. He worked for a while at Edison's studio, then started his own production company, being quite successful financially, although most of his films are little known today. James Searle Dawley( May 13, 1877 – March 30, 1949) was an American producer, director and screenwriter. When critics began to regard the films of his day to be immoral, Searley became one of the founding members of the MPDA( Motion Picture Directors Association) which sought to give filmmakers who advocated good taste the power of self- censorship. <SEP> Francis Joseph Beckman (October 25, 1875 – October 17, 1948) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Lincoln (1924–30) and as Archbishop of Dubuque (1930–46).