Question: Do director of film Tales of Terror and director of film Life at the Top (film) share the same nationality?

He has been called" The Pope of Pop Cinema" and is known as a trailblazer in the world of independent film. Much of Corman's work has an established critical reputation, such as his cycle of low- budget cult films adapted from the tales of Edgar Allan Poe. Admired by members of the French New Wave and" Cahiers du cinéma", in 1964 Corman was the youngest filmmaker to have a retrospective at the Cinémathèque Française, as well as in the British Film Institute and the Museum of Modern Art. He was the co-founder of New World Pictures, a prolific multimedia company that helped to cement Fox as a major American television network, and is a longtime member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Roger William Corman( born April 5, 1926) is an American director, producer, and actor. In 2009, he was awarded an Honorary Academy Award" for his rich engendering of films and filmmakers." Corman mentored and gave a start to many young film directors such as Francis Ford Coppola, Ron Howard, Martin Scorsese, Jonathan Demme, John Sayles, and James Cameron, and was highly influential in the New Hollywood filmmaking movement of the 1960s and 1970s. He also helped to launch the careers of actors like Peter Fonda, Jack Nicholson, Dennis Hopper, Bruce Dern, Sylvester Stallone, Diane Ladd, and William Shatner. Corman has occasionally taken minor acting roles in the films of directors who started with him, including" The Silence of the Lambs The Godfather Part IIApollo 13 The Manchurian Candidate" and" Philadelphia". A documentary about Corman's life and career entitled, directed by Alex Stapleton, premiered at the Sundance and Cannes Film Festivals in 2011. The film's TV rights were picked up by A&E IndieFilms after a well- received screening at Sundance. <SEP> The screenplay was written by Richard Matheson, and the film stars Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, and Basil Rathbone. Tales of Terror is a 1962 American International Pictures horror film in color and Panavision, produced by Samuel Z. Arkoff, James H. Nicholson, and Roger Corman, who also directed. It is the fourth in the so- called Corman- Poe cycle of eight films largely featuring adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe stories and directed by Corman for AIP. The film was released in 1962 as a double feature with" Panic in Year Zero!". <SEP> He has also directed numerous successful films including the Australian" Wake in Fright"( 1971), action films such as the original" Rambo" movie" First Blood"( 1982) and" Uncommon Valor"( 1983), and comedies like" Weekend at Bernie's"( 1989)," Fun with Dick and Jane"( 1977), and" North Dallas Forty"( 1979). He is sometimes credited as William T. Kotcheff, and resides in Beverly Hills, California. Given his ancestry, Kotcheff has Bulgarian citizenship. William Theodore Kotcheff( born April 7, 1931) is a Bulgarian- Canadian film and television director and producer, known primarily for his work on British and American television productions such as" Armchair Theatre" and. <SEP> Rachel Feldman( born August 22, 1954) is an American director of film and television and screenwriter of television films. <SEP> Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV. <SEP> Life at the Top is a 1965 drama film, a production of Romulus Films released by Columbia Pictures. The screenplay was by Mordecai Richler, based on the novel" Life at the Top" by John Braine, and is a sequel to the film" Room at the Top"( 1959). The music score was by Richard Addinsell and the cinematography by Oswald Morris. The film's art director Edward Marshall received a 1966 BAFTA Award nomination. It was directed by Ted Kotcheff and produced by James Woolf with William Kirby as associate producer. The film stars Laurence Harvey, once again playing Joe Lampton, with Jean Simmons, Honor Blackman and Michael Craig. Four actors reprised their roles from" Room at the Top": Harvey, Donald Wolfit, Ambrosine Phillpotts and Allan Cuthbertson.