Which director was born first, John G. Avildsen or Charles Martin Smith?
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John G. Avildsen John Guilbert Avildsen (December 21, 1935 – June 16, 2017) was an American film director. He won the Academy Award for Best Director in 1977 for "Rocky". Other films he directed include "Joe" (1970), "Save the Tiger" (1973), "Fore Play" (1975), "The Formula" (1980), "Neighbors" (1981), "For Keeps" (1988), "Lean on Me" (1989), "Rocky V" (1990), "The Power of One" (1992), "8 Seconds" (1994), "Inferno" (1999) and the first three "The Karate Kid" films.
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Charles Martin Smith Charles Martin Smith (born October 30, 1953) is an American film actor, writer, and director. He is best known for his roles in "American Graffiti" (1973), "The Buddy Holly Story" (1978), "Never Cry Wolf" (1983), "Starman" (1984), "The Untouchables" (1987), "Deep Cover" (1992), "Speechless" (1994) and "Deep Impact" (1998). He is further known for directing the films "The Snow Walker" (2003), "Dolphin Tale" (2011) and "Dolphin Tale 2" (2014).
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Martin (1978 film) Martin is a 1978 American horror film written and directed by George A. Romero.
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John Frankenheimer John Michael Frankenheimer (February 19, 1930 – July 6, 2002) was an American film and television director known for social dramas and action/suspense films. Among his credits were "Birdman of Alcatraz" (1962), "The Manchurian Candidate" (1962), "Seven Days in May" (1964), "The Train" (1964), "Seconds" (1966), "Grand Prix" (1966), "French Connection II" (1975), "Black Sunday" (1977), and "Ronin" (1998).
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John M. Jacobsen John Martin Jacobsen (born 27 December 1944) is a Norwegian film producer.
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Jean-Luc Godard Jean-Luc Godard (] ; born 3 December 1930) is a French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and film critic. He is often identified with the 1960s French film movement "La Nouvelle Vague", or French New Wave.
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Brian Trenchard-Smith Brian Trenchard-Smith (born 1946) is an English-Australian film and television director, producer, writer, consultant and actor who is notable for his contributions to the horror and action genre during the 1970s and 1980s in Australia. Most of his work has been in television, and the majority of his films have been direct-to-video releases. His 1970s and 1980s Aussie films were theatrically released. He generally works in the drama, action and horror genres. He has directed 42 films and television series including "Turkey Shoot", "StuntRock", "Dead End Drive-In", "The Man from Hong Kong", and "Leprechaun 3".
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Charles Giblyn Charles Giblyn (September 6, 1871 – March 14, 1934) was an American film director and actor of the silent era. He directed 96 films between 1912 and 1927. He also appeared in 23 films between 1914 and 1934. He was one of the founders of the Motion Picture Directors Association. Founded Albion Productions, a film production company, in 1922. He was born in Watertown, New York and died in Los Angeles, California.
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Edward Dmytryk Edward Dmytryk (September 4, 1908 – July 1, 1999) was a Canadian-born American film director. He was known for his 1940s "films noir" and received an Oscar nomination for Best Director for "Crossfire" (1947).
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Richard Martin (television director) Richard Martin (born 1930) is a retired British television director and former actor. After starting his career as an actor, he worked regularly as a director throughout the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, which included directing several early serials of "Doctor Who" starring William Hartnell, and series such as "Compact", "Crown Court" and "All Creatures Great and Small". He is married to actress Suzanne Neve.
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Eugenio Martín Eugenio Martín is a Spanish film director and screenwriter. He was born in May 15, 1925 in Ceuta, an autonomous city of Spain located on the north coast of Africa. He is best known for the low-budget genre films he made in the 1960s and 1970s, including "Bad Man's River", "The Bounty Killer", and "Horror Express", the latter being particularly notable for its inclusion of the well-known English actors Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing, famous for their work with Hammer Films. Though never remarkably successful either at the box office or among critics, Martín's films, particularly "Horror Express", have achieved cult status. The popular horror film magazine Fangoria included "Horror Express" in its book, "101 Best Horror Movies You've Never Seen: A Celebration of the World's Most Unheralded Fright Flicks".
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Charlie Kaufman Charles Stuart Kaufman (born November 19, 1958) is an American screenwriter, producer, director, and lyricist. He wrote the films "Being John Malkovich" (1999), "Adaptation" (2002), and "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" (2004). He made his directorial debut with "Synecdoche, New York" (2008), which was also well-received; film critic Roger Ebert named it "the best movie of the decade" in 2009. It was followed by "Anomalisa" (2015).
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E. Martin Browne E. Martin Browne (29 January 1900 – 27 April 1980) was a British theatre director, known for his production of twentieth century verse plays. He collaborated for many years with T. S. Eliot and was first producer of many of his plays including "Murder in the Cathedral".
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Jean-Pierre Granval Jean-Pierre Granval, stage name of Jean-Pierre Charles Gribouval, (10 December 1923 – 28 May 1998) was a 20th-century French stage and film actor as well as a theatre director.
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John Stuart (actor) John Stuart (born John Alfred Louden Croall; 18 July 1898 – 17 October 1979), was a Scottish actor, and a very popular leading man in British silent films in the 1920s. He appeared in two films directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
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A Night in Heaven A Night in Heaven is a 1983 American romance film directed by John G. Avildsen, starring Christopher Atkins as a college student and Lesley Ann Warren as his professor. The film's screenplay was written by Joan Tewkesbury. Film critics widely panned the film.
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King Vidor King Wallis Vidor ( ; February 8, 1894 – November 1, 1982) was an American film director, film producer, and screenwriter whose career spanned nearly seven decades. In 1979, he was awarded an Honorary Academy Award for his "incomparable achievements as a cinematic creator and innovator." He was nominated five times for a Best Director Oscar, and won eight international film awards during his career. Vidor's best known films include "The Big Parade" (1925), "The Crowd" (1928), "Stella Dallas" (1937), and "Duel in the Sun" (1946). (He is not related to fellow director Charles Vidor).
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Christopher Smith (academic) Christopher John Smith, FSA(Scot), FRHistS, FSA, FRSA (born 1965 in Aylesbury, England) is a British academic and classicist specialising in early Ancient Rome. He is the current Director of the British School at Rome and Professor of Ancient History at the University of St Andrews.
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Chris Smith (filmmaker) Chris Smith (born in 1970) is an American film director, cameraman, producer, writer, and editor. He is best known for directing "American Movie", which was awarded the Grand Jury Prize for Documentary at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival.
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Born Again (film) Born Again is a 1978 American biographical film depicting the involvement of Charles W. Colson in the Watergate scandal, his subsequent conversion to Christianity, and his prison term stemming from Watergate. It starred Dean Jones as Colson, Anne Francis as his wife, Dana Andrews as Tom Phillips, Harry Spillman as President Nixon, former Senator Harold Hughes as himself, and George Brent in his final film. The director was old Hollywood classic filmmaker Irving Rapper, and the film was released by Avco Embassy Pictures. The cinematography was by Harry Stradling Jr.
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Martin Sheen Ramón Antonio Gerardo Estévez (born August 3, 1940), known professionally as Martin Sheen, is an American actor who first became known for his roles in the films "The Subject Was Roses" (1968) and "Badlands" (1973), and later achieved wide recognition for his leading role in "Apocalypse Now" (1979).
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Frederic H. Smith, Jr. Frederic Harrison Smith, Jr. {'1': ", '2': ", '3': 'CBE', '4': "} (June 30, 1908 – May 28, 1980) was a United States Air Force four-star general who served as Commander in Chief, U.S. Air Forces in Europe (CINCUSAFE) from 1959 to 1961; and Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force (VCSAF) from 1961 to 1962.