Question: Which film has the director born earlier, The Yellow Mask or The Return Of The Tall Blond Man With One Black Shoe?

Paul Bonifas ( 3 June 1902 – 9 November 1975) was a French actor, born in Paris. In the 1920s, while working for the French customs service, Bonifas took classes in acting at the Conservatoire de Paris in his spare time. He left with the first prize for comedy, which allowed him to join the Odéon Theatre in 1933, then the Comédie- Française in 1938. He made his first film appearance in 1935 in a version of Dostoyevsky's" Crime and Punishment", directed by Pierre Chenal. During World War II he served as a lieutenant in the artillery, was badly wounded, and evacuated from Dunkirk with his unit. In London he joined the Free French, and worked for" Radio Londres" broadcasting to occupied France. In 1942 he appeared in the film" The Foreman Went to France". In 1943 he formed" The Molière Players", who staged a repertoire of mainly Molière works in London theatres, as well as in regional towns and at French army barracks. In 1944" The Molière Players" appeared in the short film" Aventure malgache" directed by Alfred Hitchcock. This written by, and based on the experiences of, Jules Francois Clermont, an actor in Bonifas' troupe working under the name of Paul Clarus, who had operated an illegal radio station" Madagascar Libre" in Madagascar while the island was under Vichy control. Bonifas then appeared in a number of other British films, including" Two Fathers" with Bernard Miles, directed by Anthony Asquith, and had minor roles in the musicals" Heaven Is Round the Corner" and" Champagne Charlie", the action adventure film" The Man from Morocco", the comedy- drama" Johnny Frenchman" and the horror film" Dead of Night". Bonifas returned to France in 1946 and resumed his career in theatre, specializing in comedy, but also taking dramatic roles. His later film career included appearances in" Trapeze"( 1956)," The Hunchback of Notre Dame"( 1956)," Fanny"( 1961)," Charade"( 1963)," Greed in the Sun"( 1964)," The Train"( 1964)," Is Paris Burning?"( 1966)," Triple Cross"( 1966), and" The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe"( 1974). Bonifas died on 9 November 1975 at Vernouillet, Yvelines, France. <SEP> It is the continuation of" The Tall Blond Man with One Black ShoeLe Grand Blond avec une chaussure noire", 1972). Veber said the film" was n't good at all ... I'm afraid I did it just for the money." The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe( or" The Return of the Tall Blond Man") is a film directed by Yves Robert, in 1974. <SEP> Yves Robert( 19 June 1920 – 10 May 2002) was a French actor, screenwriter, director, and producer. <SEP> Harry B. Lachman( June 29, 1886 – March 19, 1975) was an American artist, set designer, and film director. <SEP> George Arthurs( 13 April 1875 – 14 March 1944) was an English songwriter, playwright, composer, author and screenwriter who contributed lyrics to several successful musical comedies such as" The Belle of Mayfair"( 1906)," Havana"( 1908) and" Yes, Uncle!"( 1917), before writing dialogue for such films as" The Yellow Mask"( 1931). <SEP> A criminal plans to rob the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London. The Yellow Mask is a 1931 British musical crime film directed by Harry Lachman and starring Lupino Lane, Dorothy Seacombe and Warwick Ward. It was based on the 1927 Edgar Wallace novel" The Traitor's Gate"., adapted into the play" The Yellow Mask", which premiered in London in 1928.