Question: Which film has the director who died earlier, It'S A Joke, Son! or The Thirty Nine Steps (1978 Film)?

He began his career as a short film comedy director and gradually moved into feature film directing and production later in his career. Benjamin Stoloff( October 6, 1895 – September 8, 1960) was an American film director and producer. <SEP> Ben Palmer is a British film and television director who is known for being the director of" Bo' Selecta" and" The Inbetweeners". <SEP> Prentis Hancock( born 14 May 1942) is a British actor, best known for his television roles. He was a regular cast member of the first season of science fiction series as Paul Morrow, and also appeared in a number of" Doctor Who" stories throughout the 1970s-" Spearhead from Space" and" Planet of the Daleks" with Jon Pertwee and" Planet of Evil" and" The Ribos Operation" with Tom Baker. Other TV appearances include" Spy Trap"( as Lieutenant Sanders)," Z- CarsColditzSurvivors The New AvengersSecret ArmyReturn of the SaintMinderChocky's Children The Professionals" and" The Bill". His film credits include" The Thirty Nine Steps"( 1978) and" Defence of the Realm"( 1985). <SEP> His best known films were made for Hammer in the 1960s, and included" The Kiss of the Vampire"( 1962) and" Rasputin, the Mad Monk"( 1966). In 1965 he directed" The Face of Fu Manchu", based on the character created by Sax Rohmer, and starring Christopher Lee. Sharp also directed the sequel" The Brides of Fu Manchu"( 1966). Donald Herman Sharp( 19 April 192114 December 2011) was an Australian- born British film director. In the 1980s he was also responsible for several hugely popular miniseries adapted from the novels of Barbara Taylor Bradford. <SEP> It was the third film version of the 1915 novel. The Thirty Nine Steps is a British 1978 thriller film directed by Don Sharp, with screenplay by British playwright Michael Robson, based on the novel" The Thirty- Nine Steps" by John Buchan. This version of Buchan's tale starred Robert Powell as Richard Hannay, Karen Dotrice as Alex, John Mills as Colonel Scudder, and a host of other well- known British actors in smaller parts. It is generally regarded as the closest to the novel, being set before the Great War. The early events and overall feel of the film bear much resemblance to Buchan's original story, albeit with a few changes such as the re-casting of Scudder as a more immediately sympathetic character and the introduction of a love interest. It also introduces a different meaning for the" thirty- nine steps", although unlike its filmed predecessors it returns to Buchan's original notion of being an actual staircase. It is known for the Big Ben sequence near the end, inspired by the film" My Learned Friend"( 1943), starring Will Hay, although this is its most fundamental deviation from Buchan's original story, which reaches its culmination in a coastal location in Kent. Powell later reprised the role in the ITV series" Hannay" which ran for 13 episodes from 1988 to 1989. <SEP> It's a Joke, Son! is a 1947 American film directed by Benjamin Stoloff featuring radio comedian Kenny Delmar as Senator Beauregard Claghorn; the inspiration for the cartoon character Foghorn Leghorn. The film was the first American production of Eagle- Lion Films and although the film was produced on a very small budget compared to other Hollywood films at the time, it was a box- office disappointment, with one theater chain removing the film from theaters after less than a week after it only drew$ 1,000 in ticket sales.