Question: Are both directors of films Mackenna's Gold and Circus (1936 film) from the same country?

Denyse Alexander( born 28 June 1931) is a British stage, film and television actress. She was married to the film and television director Jack Gold from 1957 until his death in August 2015. <SEP> It was photographed in Super Panavision 70 and Technicolor by Joseph MacDonald, with original music by Quincy Jones. " Mackenna's Gold" is based on the novel of the same name by Heck Allen using the pen name Will Henry, telling the story of how the lure of gold corrupts a diverse group of people. The novel was loosely based on the legend of the Lost Adams Diggings, crediting the Frank Dobie account of the legend(" Apache Gold and Yaqui Silver") in the author's note. Mackenna's Gold is a 1969 American western film directed by J. Lee Thompson, starring an ensemble cast featuring Gregory Peck, Omar Sharif, Telly Savalas, Ted Cassidy, Camilla Sparv and Julie Newmar in lead roles. The film was a box office failure in North America, but went on to become a major overseas success, in regions such as the Soviet Union, Central Asia, and the Indian subcontinent. <SEP> Aleksandrov or Alexandrov( original family name was Мормоненко or Mormonenko; 23 January 1903 – 16 December 1983) was a prominent Soviet film director who was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1947 and a Hero of Socialist Labor in 1973. Grigori Vasilyevich He was awarded the Stalin Prizes for 1941 and 1950. Initially associated with Sergei Eisenstein, with whom he worked as a co-director, screenwriter and actor, Aleksandrov became a major director in his own right in the 1930s, when he directed" Jolly Fellows" and a string of other musical comedies starring his wife Lyubov Orlova. Though Aleksandrov remained active until his death, his musicals, amongst the first made in the Soviet Union, remain his most popular films. They rival Ivan Pyryev's films as the most effective and light- hearted showcase ever designed for the Stalin- era USSR. <SEP> John Lee Thompson (1 August 1914 – 30 August 2002) was a British film director, active in London and Hollywood, best known for such movies as "Ice Cold in AlexCape Fear" and "The Guns of Navarone". <SEP> Circus( translit. Tsirk) is a 1936 Soviet melodramatic comedy musical film. In his own words, it was conceived as" an eccentric comedy ... a real side splitter." Starring the glamorous and immensely popular Lyubov Orlova( Aleksandrov's wife), the first recognized star of Soviet cinema and a gifted singer, the film contains several songs which instantly became Soviet classics. The most famous is the" Song of the Motherland"( Широка страна моя родная). It was directed by Grigori Aleksandrov and Isidor Simkov at the Mosfilm studios. The film was based on a comedy written by Ilf and Petrov and Valentin Kataev and performed by Moscow music hall," Under the Circus DomeПод куполом ц ирка"), which was seen and liked by Aleksandrov. They made the play into the plot, but during the initial film shooting they went to America. Upon return, they disliked the director's interpretation, and after a conflict they abandoned the work, forbade the mention of their names in the credits, and further work on the plot was continued by Isaac Babel. <SEP> The film is remake of the 1936 film drama of the same name" Sisters of the Gion" by Kenji Mizoguchi.