Question: Which film has the director born earlier, Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness? or The Fifth Musketeer?

The Fifth Musketeer is a 1979 German- Austrian film adaptation of the last section of the novel by Alexandre Dumas, père, which is itself based on the French legend of the Man in the Iron Mask. It was released in Europe with the alternative title" Behind the Iron Mask". Olivia de Havilland made a cameo appearance as the Queen Mother. It was directed by Ken Annakin, and stars Beau Bridges as the twins( Louis XIV and Philippe of Gascony), Sylvia Kristel as Maria Theresa, Ursula Andress as Louise de La Vallière, Cornel Wilde as d' Artagnan, Ian McShane as Fouquet, Rex Harrison as Colbert( Philippe's tutor), and Lloyd Bridges, José Ferrer and Alan Hale Jr. as the Three Musketeers. This was de Havilland's final theatrical film. The cinematographer was Jack Cardiff. In what may have been an instance of stunt casting, Alan Hale Jr. played the same character, Porthos, that his lookalike father, Alan Hale Sr., did in 1939's" The Man in the Iron Mask". <SEP> His career spanned half a century, beginning in the early 1940s and ending in 2002. Kenneth Cooper" Ken" Annakin, OBE( 10 August 1914 – 22 April 2009) was a prolific English film director. His career peaked in the 1960s with large- scale adventure films and in all he directed nearly 50 pictures. <SEP> Alexander Newley( born 8 September 1965 in New York City, New York), also known as Sacha Newley, is a British contemporary artist, portraitist, writer and teacher known for his paintings of major figures in the Arts, including Gore Vidal, Billy Wilder, Christopher Reeve, Oliver Stone and Steven Berkoff. His portraits of Vidal and Reeve form part of the permanent collection of The National Portrait Gallery at The Smithsonian in Washington DC. Also known as Sacha Newley, he is the only son of Dame Joan Collins, one of two children from her second marriage, to actor Anthony Newley; the other child being singer Tara Newley. His portraits of Sir Nigel Hawthorne in character as Mad King George III were commissioned by the English National Theatre to promote their production of Alan Bennett's play" The Madness of George III". His portrait of writer Dominick Dunne scribbling in his notebook during his coverage for Vanity Fair of the OJ Simpson trial in Los Angeles was chosen for the cover of Dunne's best- selling memoir about the trial," Another City, Not My Own". In 2006, Newley's full- length portrait of Hawthorne was acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum for their permanent collection celebrating Theatre in the 20th century. His multilayered" Head of Lincoln" is the central feature at The Lincoln Heritage Museum in Springfield, Illinois — the home of Lincoln studies. Newley also painted a portrait of Lord Jeffrey Archer, mischievously hiding his face behind his hands. In 2016 Newley completed a series of portraits of Kenneth Branagh, Judi Dench, Adrian Lester, Derek Jacobi and Lily James. Newley worked on the portraits for a year, and was granted unprecedented access backstage at The Garrick Theatre in order to capture the energy and dynamism of the actors in character. These were featured in a major solo exhibition' Portraits in Character' and charity gala auction at St Martin in the Fields in which Jeffrey Archer was the auctioneer. He has captured on canvas some of the most iconic figures of stage and screen including Sir David Suchet, whose portrait was revealed at The Garrick Club in October 2016, and now hangs in the most esteemed spot in the Garrick bar. In 2017 Newley completed his memoir' Unaccompanied Minor', illustrated with 28 of his own paintings. Published under the Quartet imprint, it is an unsentimental and heartfelt account of growing up within a famous but dysfunctional family as the son of two stars of Hollywood's golden age. Written with humour and compassion, it tells the story of Newley's nomadic childhood; the disintegration of his parents ’ marriage; and his battle to make sense of the past. It is also a meditation on art, identity and inheritance, and a portrait of London and Hollywood during the swinging sixties and the seventies'. Newley's father was celebrated actor and Oscar- winning songwriter Anthony Newley, and his mother is actress Dame Joan Collins, with whom he appeared in his father's 1969 movie" Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?". From an early age he loved the drama of the stage and transformative power of actors. Newley works mainly in pastels and oils. He is divorced and has one daughter with his ex-wife, Angela Tassoni. <SEP> Anthony Newley( 24 September 1931 – 14 April 1999) was an English actor, singer and songwriter. Newley achieved success as a performer in such diverse fields as rock and roll and stage and screen acting. As a recording artist he enjoyed a dozen Top 40 entries on the UK Singles Chart between 1959 and 1962, including two number one hits. With songwriting partner Leslie Bricusse, Newley wrote" Feeling Good", which was popularised by Nina Simone and covered by many other popular artists, as well as the title song of 1964 film" Goldfinger"( along with John Barry). Bricusse and Newley received an Academy Award nomination for the film score of" Willy Wonka& the Chocolate Factory"( 1971). " The Guinness Book of British Hit Singles& Albums" described Newley as" among the most innovative UK acts of the early rock years before moving into musicals and cabaret". Newley was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1989. <SEP> Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness? Newley played the autobiographical title role of Merkin, an internationally successful singer approaching middle age who retells his life story in a series of production numbers on a seashore in front of his two toddlers( played by Newley's actual children Tara and Alexander) and aged mother. Merkin focuses on his promiscuous relationships with women, particularly Polyester Poontang( played by Newley's wife Joan Collins) and the adolescent Mercy Humppe(" Playboy" centerfold Connie Kreski). Merkin compares the relationship with Mercy Humppe to that of Humbert Humbert and Lolita. Merkin is constantly surrounded by a Satan- like procurer, Goodtime Eddie Filth( Milton Berle), and an angelic' Presence'( George Jessel) who interrupts Merkin's biography with cryptic Borscht Belt- level jokes to denote births and deaths in Merkin's life. is a 1969 British musical film directed by and starring Anthony Newley. Newley periodically steps out of character to complain about his' Merkin' role with an unseen director( voiced by Newley), two screenwriters, the film's producers and a trio of blasé movie critics who are turned off by the story's eroticism and lack of plot. <SEP> Alexander Newley( born 8 September 1965 in New York City, New York), also known as Sacha Newley, is a British contemporary artist, portraitist, writer and teacher known for his paintings of major figures in the Arts, including Gore Vidal, Billy Wilder, Christopher Reeve, Oliver Stone and Steven Berkoff. His portraits of Vidal and Reeve form part of the permanent collection of The National Portrait Gallery at The Smithsonian in Washington DC. Also known as Sacha Newley, he is the only son of Dame Joan Collins, one of two children from her second marriage, to actor Anthony Newley; the other child being singer Tara Newley. His portraits of Sir Nigel Hawthorne in character as Mad King George III were commissioned by the English National Theatre to promote their production of Alan Bennett's play" The Madness of George III". His portrait of writer Dominick Dunne scribbling in his notebook during his coverage for Vanity Fair of the OJ Simpson trial in Los Angeles was chosen for the cover of Dunne's best- selling memoir about the trial," Another City, Not My Own". In 2006, Newley's full- length portrait of Hawthorne was acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum for their permanent collection celebrating Theatre in the 20th century. His multilayered" Head of Lincoln" is the central feature at The Lincoln Heritage Museum in Springfield, Illinois — the home of Lincoln studies. Newley also painted a portrait of Lord Jeffrey Archer, mischievously hiding his face behind his hands. In 2016 Newley completed a series of portraits of Kenneth Branagh, Judi Dench, Adrian Lester, Derek Jacobi and Lily James. Newley worked on the portraits for a year, and was granted unprecedented access backstage at The Garrick Theatre in order to capture the energy and dynamism of the actors in character. These were featured in a major solo exhibition' Portraits in Character' and charity gala auction at St Martin in the Fields in which Jeffrey Archer was the auctioneer. He has captured on canvas some of the most iconic figures of stage and screen including Sir David Suchet, whose portrait was revealed at The Garrick Club in October 2016, and now hangs in the most esteemed spot in the Garrick bar. In 2017 Newley completed his memoir' Unaccompanied Minor', illustrated with 28 of his own paintings. Published under the Quartet imprint, it is an unsentimental and heartfelt account of growing up within a famous but dysfunctional family as the son of two stars of Hollywood's golden age. Written with humour and compassion, it tells the story of Newley's nomadic childhood; the disintegration of his parents ’ marriage; and his battle to make sense of the past. It is also a meditation on art, identity and inheritance, and a portrait of London and Hollywood during the swinging sixties and the seventies'. Newley's father was celebrated actor and Oscar- winning songwriter Anthony Newley, and his mother is actress Dame Joan Collins, with whom he appeared in his father's 1969 movie" Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?". From an early age he loved the drama of the stage and transformative power of actors. Newley works mainly in pastels and oils. He is divorced and has one daughter with his ex-wife, Angela Tassoni.