Sam Nelson
Born: 1896-05-11 in Whttier, California, USA
Died: 1963-05-01
Known For: Directing
Biography
Sam Nelson was a director and assistant director who worked from the end of the silent era right up through the early 1960s. While most of his film work was in the assistant director role, he did direct over 20 films during the 1930s and 1940s, all of which were westerns. As an assistant director he worked on such notable films as Pennies from Heaven, And Then There Were None, All the King's Men, the original 3:10 to Yuma, Some Like It Hot, A Raisin in the Sun, and Spartacus. In addition he appeared in over a dozen films in small roles. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Filmography
1987
- What's Love ... (Special Effects)
1962
- Experiment in Terror ... (Assistant Director)
1961
- A Raisin in the Sun ... (Assistant Director)
- By Love Possessed ... (Assistant Director)
1960
- Comanche Station ... (Assistant Director)
- The Wackiest Ship in the Army ... (Assistant Director)
- Let No Man Write My Epitaph ... (Assistant Director)
1959
- Some Like It Hot ... (Assistant Director)
- Good Day for a Hanging ... (Assistant Director)
1958
- Cowboy ... (Assistant Director)
- The Last Hurrah ... (Assistant Director)
- Fifi Blows Her Top ... (Assistant Director)
1957
- 3:10 to Yuma ... (Assistant Director)
- Decision at Sundown ... (Assistant Director)
- The Tall T ... (Assistant Director)
- Rusty Romeos ... (Assistant Director)
- The Man Who Turned to Stone ... (Assistant Director)
1956
- The White Squaw ... (Assistant Director)
- Reprisal! ... (Assistant Director)
- Don't Knock The Rock ... (Assistant Director)
1955
- The Last Frontier ... (Assistant Director)
- My Sister Eileen ... (Assistant Director)
- The Violent Men ... (Assistant Director)
1954
- Three Hours to Kill ... (Assistant Director)
1952
- Affair in Trinidad ... (Assistant Director)
1951
- Santa Fe ... (Assistant Director)
1950
- No Sad Songs for Me ... (Assistant Director)
1949
- All the King's Men ... (Assistant Director)
- The Doolins of Oklahoma ... (Assistant Director)
- The Walking Hills ... (Assistant Director)
- Tell It to the Judge ... (Assistant Director)
1948
- The Return of October ... (Assistant Director)
1947
- The Lady from Shanghai as Captain of Yacht Circe (uncredited)
- It Had to Be You ... (Assistant Director)
1946
- Gallant Journey ... (Assistant Director)
1945
- And Then There Were None ... (Assistant Director)
- A Walk in the Sun ... (Assistant Director)
1944
- Guest in the House ... (Assistant Director)
1943
- The Outlaw ... (Assistant Director)
- Jack London ... (Assistant Director)
- The Avenging Rider ... (Director)
- Sagebrush Law ... (Director)
1942
- The Corsican Brothers ... (Assistant Director)
- Bandit Ranger ... (Second Unit)
1941
- Outlaws of the Panhandle ... (Director)
1940
- Pioneers of the Frontier ... (Director)
- Prairie Schooners ... (Director)
- Mandrake the Magician ... (Director)
- Bullets for Rustlers ... (Director)
1939
- The Man from Sundown ... (Director)
- The Stranger from Texas ... (Director)
- Konga, the Wild Stallion ... (Director)
- Overland with Kit Carson ... (Director)
- Mandrake the Magician ... (Director)
- North of the Yukon ... (Director)
- Western Caravans ... (Director)
- Parents on Trial ... (Director)
- The Thundering West ... (Director)
- Texas Stampede ... (Director)
1938
- Law of the Plains ... (Director)
- West of Cheyenne ... (Director)
- South of Arizona ... (Director)
- West of the Santa Fe ... (Director)
- The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok ... (Director)
- Cattle Raiders ... (Director)
- Rio Grande ... (Director)
- Colorado Trail ... (Director)
1937
- Outlaws of the Prairie ... (Director)
1936
- Pennies from Heaven ... (Assistant Director)
1933
- Ann Carver's Profession ... (Assistant Director)
1932
- Washington Merry-Go-Round ... (Assistant Director)
- No More Orchids ... (Assistant Director)
- The Last Man ... (Writer)
- Virtue ... (Assistant Director)
- The Menace ... (Producer)
1931
- The Miracle Woman ... (Assistant Director)
- Way Back Home ... (Assistant Director)
1930
- Rain or Shine ... (Assistant Director)
- Soldiers and Women as Pvt. Delehanty
- Guilty? ... (Assistant Director)
- Personality ... (Assistant Director)
1929
- Song of Love ... (Assistant Director)
- The Yellowback ... (Assistant Director)
- The One Man Dog as Larry
- Mexicali Rose ... (Assistant Director)
- The Little Savage as Norton
- The Vagabond Cub as Bob McDonald
1928
- Crooks Can't Win as Danny Malone
- The Fightin' Redhead ... (Assistant Director)
- The Circus Kid as Tad
- Driftin' Sands ... (Assistant Director)
1927
- Her Father Said No ... (Assistant Director)
- Breed of Courage as Alan Haliday
- The Swift Shadow as Jim
- The Boy Rider as Terry McNeil
1926
- Red Hot Hoofs ... (Assistant Director)
1925
- The Midnight Flyer ... (Assistant Director)