Question: Are director of film My Sister Eileen (1955 film) and director of film American Soldiers from the same country?

American Soldiers is a 2005 war film directed by Sidney J. Furie. <SEP> It stars Janet Leigh, Betty Garrett, and Jack Lemmon. The screenplay by Quine and Blake Edwards is based on the 1940 play by Joseph A. Fields and Jerome Chodorov, which was inspired by a series of autobiographical short stories by Ruth McKenney originally published in" The New Yorker". My Sister Eileen is a 1955 American CinemaScope musical comedy film directed by Richard Quine. The play originally was filmed in 1942. ( This musical film is totally different from the 1953 Broadway musical" Wonderful Town", though both are based on the original Ruth McKenney source material.) <SEP> He began acting as a child in radio, vaudeville, and stage productions before being signed to Metro- Goldwyn- Mayer in his early twenties. When his acting career began to wane after World War II, Quine began working as a film director. He later moved into producing and directing television. Quine's films as director include" Bell Book and Candle"( 1958)," The World of Suzie Wong"( 1960)," Paris When It Sizzles"( 1964)," How to Murder Your Wife"( 1965), and" The Prisoner of Zenda"( 1979). Depressed over poor health, Quine died of a self- inflicted gunshot wound in June 1989 at the age of 68. Richard Quine( November 12, 1920 – June 10, 1989) was an American stage, film, and radio actor and, later, a film director. <SEP> Sidney Joseph Furie( born February 28, 1933) is a Canadian film director, screenwriter, and producer best known for his extensive work in both British and American cinema between the 1960s and early 1980s. Like his contemporaries Norman Jewison and Ted Kotcheff, he was one of earliest Canadian directors to achieve mainstream critical and financial success outside their native country at a time when its film industry was virtually nonexistent. He won a BAFTA Film Award and was nominated for a Palme d' Or for his work on the acclaimed spy thriller" The Ipcress File" starring Michael Caine. He is considered by some an" auteur" director, elevating otherwise unremarkable genre films through strong, creative visuals, and atmospheric direction. His 1981 horror film" The Entity" was declared by director Martin Scorsese as one of the scariest movies of all time, and his Vietnam War film" The Boys in Company C" was a major influence on Stanley Kubrick's" Full Metal Jacket." He is also the co-creator of the" Iron Eagle" action film franchise, and directed three of its four entries. <SEP> Ruth McKenney (November 18, 1911 – July 25, 1972) was an American author and journalist, best remembered for "My Sister Eileen", a memoir of her experiences growing up in Ohio and moving to Greenwich Village with her sister Eileen McKenney. Originally published as a series of short stories in "The New YorkerMy Sister Eileen" was published in book form in 1938, and later adapted under the same name into a play, a radio play (and unproduced radio series), two films, and a CBS television series. It was also the basis for the Leonard Bernstein musical "Wonderful Town". <SEP> Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre.