Desc: Tales of Washington Irving: Directed by Zoran Janjic. With Ken Sansom, George Furth, Joan Gerber, Byron Kane. Washington Irving wrote stories of the Hudson Valley and the Catskills. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow tells the story of a schoolteacher meeting the ghostly Headless Horsemen. Rip Van Winkle is a farmer who falls asleep in the woods under the rule of George III and wakes up after the American Revolution.