Were both Roger Corman and Jonas Mekas Lithuanian?
Roger Corman Roger William Corman (born April 5, 1926) is an American independent film producer, director, screenwriter, entertainment businessman, and actor. He has been called "The Pope of Pop Cinema" and is known as a trailblazer in the world of independent film. Much of Corman's work has an established critical reputation, such as his cycle of low budget cult films adapted from the tales of Edgar Allan Poe. Admired by members of the French New Wave and "Cahiers du cinéma", in 1964 Corman was the youngest filmmaker to have a retrospective at the Cinémathèque Française, as well as the British Film Institute and the Museum of Modern Art. He was the co-founder of New World Pictures, a prolific multimedia company that helped to cement Fox as a major American television network, and is a long-time member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. In 2009, he was awarded an Honorary Academy Award.
Martynas Ycas Martynas Yčas was a Lithuanian-born microbiologist. He co-authored the book "Mr. Tompkins: Inside Himself with physicist George Gamow". He was a founding member of the RNA Tie Club, a discussion society of scientists who attempted to solve the question of the genetic code and with Gamow and others published early statistical analyses of proteins and DNA which disproved some early models of the genetic code.