Question: Jean Epstein and Tim Whelan, are French?
Related documents: [0]  [DOC] Tim Whelan (November 2, 1893 – August 12, 1957) was an American film director, writer, producer and actor best remembered for "The Thief of Bagdad" (1940). At the time of his death, Whelan he was survived by widow, former silent film actress Miriam Seegar, and had two sons, Michael and Tim Jr. The widow Seegar went on to live another 53 years, dying January 2, 2011 at age 103. [END] 
[1]  [DOC] Jean Epstein (] ; March 25, 1897 – April 2, 1953) was a French filmmaker, film theorist, literary critic, and novelist. Although he is remembered today primarily for his adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher", Epstein directed three dozen films and was an influential critic of literature and film from the early 1920s through the late 1940s. He is often associated with French Impressionist Cinema and the concept of "photogénie". [END] 
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