Question: Are the directors of both films Rocky and There Goes Kelly from the same country?

Karlson directed" 99 River StreetKansas City Confidential" and" Hell's Island", all with actor John Payne, in the early 1950s. Other films include" The Texas Rangers"( 1951)," The Phenix City Story"( 1955)," 5 Against the House"( 1955)," Gunman's Walk"( 1958)," The Young Doctors"( 1961) and" Walking Tall"( 1973). Phil Karlson( born Philip N. Karlstein; July 2, 1908 – December 12, 1982) was an American film director. <SEP> John Guilbert Avildsen( December 21, 1935 – June 16, 2017) was an American film director. He is perhaps best known for directing" Rocky"( 1976), which earned him the Academy Award for Best Director. Other films he directed include" Joe"( 1970)," Save the Tiger"( 1973)," The Formula"( 1980)," Neighbors"( 1981)," Lean on Me"( 1989)," Rocky V"( 1990)," 8 Seconds"( 1994) and the first three" The Karate Kid" films. <SEP> It tells the rags to riches American Dream story of Rocky Balboa, an uneducated, but kind- hearted working class Italian- American boxer, working as a debt collector for a loan shark in the slums of Philadelphia. Rocky, a small- time club fighter, gets a shot at the world heavyweight championship. The film also stars Talia Shire as Adrian, Burt Young as Adrian's brother Paulie, Burgess Meredith as Rocky's trainer Mickey Goldmill, and Carl Weathers as the reigning champion, Apollo Creed. The film, made on a budget of just over$ 1 million, was a sleeper hit; it earned$ 225 million in global box office receipts, becoming the highest- grossing film of 1976. The film was critically acclaimed and solidified Stallone's career as well as commenced his rise to prominence as a major movie star. Among other accolades, it went on to receive ten Academy Award nominations, winning three, including Best Picture. In 2006, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being" culturally, historically or aesthetically significantRocky" is considered to be one of the greatest sports films ever made and was ranked as the second- best in the genre, after" Raging Bull", by the American Film Institute in 2008. The film has spawned seven sequels:" Rocky II"( 1979)," Rocky III"( 1982)," Rocky IV"( 1985)," Rocky V"( 1990)," Rocky Balboa"( 2006)," Creed"( 2015), and" Creed II"( 2018). Stallone portrays Rocky in all eight films, wrote six of the seven films, and directed four of the six titular installments. In July 2019, Stallone said in an interview that there have been ongoing discussions about a prequel to the original film based on the life of a young Rocky Balboa. Rocky is a 1976 American sports drama film directed by John G. Avildsen, written by and starring Sylvester Stallone. <SEP> I Want Your Love is the title of both a 2010 short film and a 2012 feature- length film. Both films were directed and written by Travis Mathews. The drama films both revolve around the friends and ex-lovers of Jesse Metzger, a gay man in his mid-thirties who is forced to move back to his hometown from San Francisco due to financial reasons. The actors' own names, along with much of their real- life stories, were used for their characters in both films, which features graphic sexual scenes. The production of both films was aided by the gay pornographic studio NakedSword. This led to the full- length film being refused exemption from classification, which would have allowed it to screen at the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a decision to which actor James Franco( who invited Mathews to collaborate on Franco's film" Interior. Leather Bar.") reacted negatively. <SEP> There Goes Kelly is a 1945 American film directed by Phil Karlson and starring Jackie Moran, Wanda McKay, and Sidney Miller. It was made for Monogram Pictures. <SEP> Matt Beckett( born 13 July 1973) is a Welsh former- professional cyclist who was born in Lancaster. He represented Wales in the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur. He was briefly one of the directors of Welsh Cycling in 2006.