Were George Melford and Giuseppe Tornatore both actors?
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Giuseppe Tornatore
Giuseppe Tornatore (born 27 May 1956) is an Italian film director and screenwriter.
 He is considered as one of the directors who brought critical acclaim back to Italian cinema.
 In a career spanning over 30 years he is best known for directing and writing drama films such as "The Legend of 1900", "Malèna", "Baarìa" and "The Best Offer".
 Probably his most noted film is "Nuovo Cinema Paradiso", for which Tornatore won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
 He directed also several advertising campaigns for Dolce & Gabbana.
George Melford
George H. Melford (February 19, 1877 – April 25, 1961) was an American stage and film actor, director, producer, and screenwriter.
 Often taken for granted as a director today, the stalwart Melford's name by the 1920s was, like Cecil B. DeMille's, appearing in big bold letters above the title of his films.
One Hundred Days in Palermo
One Hundred Days in Palermo (Italian: "Cento giorni a Palermo" ) is a 1984 non-fiction film directed by Giuseppe Ferrara with Giuseppe Tornatore as screenplay writer.
 The film is a France/Italy coproduction and tells about the last hundred days in the life of the Italian "Generale dei Carabinieri" and anti-mafia highest authority Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa as prefect of Palermo, the capital of the Italian island of Sicily.
 Dalla Chiesa's life ended with his barbaric murder, shot by the machine guns of a mafia squad (along his wife and his bodyguard) on September 3, 1982. Especially on Sunday
La domenica specialmente (internationally released as Especially on Sunday) is a 1991 Italian comedy-drama film.
 It consists of four segments, all written by Tonino Guerra.
 Each segment has a different director: Giuseppe Tornatore, Marco Tullio Giordana, Giuseppe Bertolucci and Francesco Barilli. Jack Melford
John Kenneth George Melford Smith (5 September 1899 – 22 October 1972) was a British stage, film and television actor.
 He was the younger brother of screenwriter and film director Austin Melford.
 On stage from the age of 12, Melford made his film debut in 1931.
 As well as appearing in various films and television shows, he also played Menelaus in the "Doctor Who" story "The Myth Makers". The Legend of 1900
The Legend of 1900 (Italian: La leggenda del pianista sull'oceano , The Legend of the Pianist on the Ocean) is a 1998 Italian drama film directed by Giuseppe Tornatore and starring Tim Roth, Pruitt Taylor Vince and Mélanie Thierry.
 It was Tornatore's first English-language film.
 The film is inspired by "Novecento", a monologue by Alessandro Baricco.
 The film was nominated for a variety of awards worldwide, winning several for its soundtrack. The Homicide Squad
The Homicide Squad is a 1931 American Pre-Code crime film directed by George Melford and Edward L. Cahn and written by John Thomas Neville, Charles Logue and Tom Reed.
 It is based on a 1928 Henry La Cossitt short story that originally ran in "Adventure" magazine.
 The film stars Leo Carrillo, Noah Beery, Sr., Mary Brian, Russell Gleason, George Brent and Walter Percival.
 The film was released on August 1, 1931, by Universal Pictures. Going Crooked
Going Crooked is a 1926 silent crime film produced and distributed by the Fox Film Corporation.
 It is based on an off Broadway play by Winchell Smith, William Collier, Sr. and Aaron Hoffman.
 Directed by George Melford, the film stars Bessie Love and survives at the Museum of Modern Art and the George Eastman House. Salomy Jane (1923 film)
Salomy Jane is a lost 1923 American silent western film directed by George Melford and written by Paul Armstrong, Bret Harte, and Waldemar Young.
 The film stars Jacqueline Logan, George Fawcett, Maurice 'Lefty' Flynn, William B. Davidson, Charles Stanton Ogle, Billy Quirk and G. Raymond Nye.
 The film was released on August 26, 1923, by Paramount Pictures.
 It is a remake of the 1914 film of the same name. Il camorrista
Il camorrista (English: "The Professor") is a 1986 Italian drama directed by Giuseppe Tornatore.
 His film debut, it is based on the true story of the Italian crime boss Raffaele Cutolo, and adapted from the novel by Giuseppe Marrazzo.
 The International version is shorter than the original Italian release.