Question: Do both films, Earth vs. the Spider and A Peep Behind the Scenes (1918 film), have the directors who are from the same country?

It is an adaptation of the 1877 novel of the same name set around a travelling fair. A Peep Behind the Scenes is a 1918 British silent drama film directed by Kenelm Foss and Geoffrey H. Malins and starring Ivy Close, Gerald Ames and Gertrude Bain. <SEP> A Peep Behind the Scenes is a 1929 British silent drama film directed by Jack Raymond and starring Frances Cuyler, Haddon Mason and Harold Saxon-Snell. It was based on the 1877 novel of the same title by Amy Catherine Walton. It was made at Cricklewood Studios. <SEP> Most of Gordon's work is in the idiom of giant monster films, for which he used rear- projection to create the special effects. His nickname" Mister B.I.G." is a reference both to his initials and to his preference for directing movies featuring super- sized creatures. Bert Ira Gordon( born September 24, 1922) is an American film director most famous for such science fiction and horror B-movies as" The Amazing Colossal Man" and" Village of the Giants". <SEP> The Brain Eaters is a 1958 independently made American black- and- white science fiction- horror film, produced by Ed Nelson( and Roger Corman, uncredited), and directed by Bruno VeSota. The film stars Nelson, Alan Jay Factor, and Joanna Lee and includes a brief appearance by Leonard Nimoy( name misspelled in film credits as" Leonard Nemoy The Brain Eaters" was distributed by American International Pictures in different film markets as a double feature with either" Earth vs. the Spider" or" Terror from the Year 5000". <SEP> He was born in Croydon, Surrey and studied art at the Wellesley School of Art and in Paris. Kenelm Foss( 13 December 1885 – 28 November 1963) was a British actor, theatre director, author, screenwriter and film director. He was, however, more interested in theatre and in 1903 made his first appearance on the London stage at the Royal Court Theatre. He then spent four years at the Glasgow Repertory Theatre producing plays and acting before returning to London to manage the Lyric Theatre in the Strand. He directed the play" Magic" by G.K. Chesterton, which had been written specially for him in 1913, and which title was the caption to the Vanity Fair caricature of him on 17 December 1913. He then produced the first performance of Chekhov ’s" The Cherry Orchard" in England and in Europe, after which he obliged to leave the theatre for a while when he contracted tuberculosis. In 1915 he began a new career as a film director utilizing the production techniques and acting skills he had learned in the theatre. Many of his films were made for Astra Films. Following a relapse of his illness, he was able to return to the theatre and in the early 1920s spent some time in New York City where he produced a play on Broadway starring John Barrymore. He published several novels, works of poetry and biographical studies of Richard Brinsley Sheridan and J. M. W. Turner. With Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin and others he published" Practical Course in Cinema Acting in Ten Complete Lessons" in 1920. In 1925 he opened a sandwich bar in London which soon became a great success with the theatre fraternity and was followed by more" Sandys" to meet the demand. Foss died in 1963. He had married the actress Elisabeth Gilson and had six children, two of whom died in childhood. In 2005 his daughter Fanny Burney Woolnough published( under the name Fanny Burney) a biography of her father," Stage, Screen and Sandwiches: the Remarkable Life of Kenelm Foss". <SEP> The film stars Ed Kemmer, June Kenney and Eugene Persson. The special effects were by Gordon and Paul Blaisdell. " Earth vs. the Spider" was released by American International Pictures as a double feature in different film markets with either" The Brain Eaters" or" The Screaming Skull". Earth vs. the Spider( a.k.a. The Spider and Earth vs. the Giant Spider) is an independently made 1958 American black- and- white science fiction/ horror film produced and directed by Bert I. Gordon, who also wrote the story upon which the screenplay by George Worthing Yates and Laszlo Gorog was based.