Sam Nelson
Director · Actor · WriterSam 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
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KNOWN FOR
FILMOGRAPHY
ACTOR10
The Lady from Shanghai
1947
Captain of Yacht Circe (uncredited)
Soldiers and Women
1930
Pvt. Delehanty
- The Vagabond Cub
The Vagabond Cub
1929
Bob McDonald
- The Little Savage
The Little Savage
1929
Norton
- The One Man Dog
The One Man Dog
1929
Larry
The Circus Kid
1928
Tad
Crooks Can't Win
1928
Danny Malone
- Breed of Courage
Breed of Courage
1927
Alan Haliday
The Swift Shadow
1927
Jim
- The Boy Rider
The Boy Rider
1927
Terry McNeil
DIRECTOR84
Experiment in Terror
1962
Assistant Director
A Raisin in the Sun
1961
Assistant Director
By Love Possessed
1961
Assistant Director
Comanche Station
1960
Assistant Director
The Wackiest Ship in the Army
1960
Assistant Director
Let No Man Write My Epitaph
1960
Assistant Director
Some Like It Hot
1959
Assistant Director
Good Day for a Hanging
1959
Assistant Director
The Last Hurrah
1958
Assistant Director
Cowboy
1958
Assistant Director
Fifi Blows Her Top
1958
Assistant Director
The Tall T
1957
Assistant Director
Decision at Sundown
1957
Assistant Director
Rusty Romeos
1957
Assistant Director
3:10 to Yuma
1957
Assistant Director
The Man Who Turned to Stone
1957
Assistant Director
Don't Knock The Rock
1956
Assistant Director
The White Squaw
1956
Assistant Director
Reprisal!
1956
Assistant Director
The Violent Men
1955
Assistant Director
The Last Frontier
1955
Assistant Director
My Sister Eileen
1955
Assistant Director
Three Hours to Kill
1954
Assistant Director
Affair in Trinidad
1952
Assistant Director
Santa Fe
1951
Assistant Director
No Sad Songs for Me
1950
Assistant Director
The Doolins of Oklahoma
1949
Assistant Director
All the King's Men
1949
Assistant Director
Tell It to the Judge
1949
Assistant Director
The Walking Hills
1949
Assistant Director
The Return of October
1948
Assistant Director
The Lady from Shanghai
1947
Assistant Director
It Had to Be You
1947
Assistant Director
Gallant Journey
1946
Assistant Director
A Walk in the Sun
1945
Assistant Director
And Then There Were None
1945
Assistant Director
Guest in the House
1944
Assistant Director
The Outlaw
1943
Assistant Director
Sagebrush Law
1943
Director
The Avenging Rider
1943
Director
Jack London
1943
Assistant Director
Outlaws of the Panhandle
1941
Director
The Corsican Brothers
1941
Assistant Director
Bullets for Rustlers
1940
Director
Pioneers of the Frontier
1940
Director
Prairie Schooners
1940
Director
Mandrake the Magician
1940
Director
Mandrake the Magician
1939
Director
Overland with Kit Carson
1939
Director
Konga, the Wild Stallion
1939
Director
The Man from Sundown
1939
Director
The Stranger from Texas
1939
Director
Western Caravans
1939
Director
Texas Stampede
1939
Director
Parents on Trial
1939
Director
North of the Yukon
1939
Director
The Thundering West
1939
Director
The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
1938
Director
West of the Santa Fe
1938
Director
Rio Grande
1938
Director
Colorado Trail
1938
Director
Cattle Raiders
1938
Director
Law of the Plains
1938
Director
South of Arizona
1938
Director
West of Cheyenne
1938
Director
Outlaws of the Prairie
1937
Director
Pennies from Heaven
1936
Assistant Director
Ann Carver's Profession
1933
Assistant Director
Washington Merry-Go-Round
1932
Assistant Director
No More Orchids
1932
Assistant Director
Virtue
1932
Assistant Director
Way Back Home
1931
Assistant Director
The Miracle Woman
1931
Assistant Director
Rain or Shine
1930
Assistant Director
Personality
1930
Assistant Director
Guilty?
1930
Assistant Director
Mexicali Rose
1929
Assistant Director
The Yellowback
1929
Assistant Director
Song of Love
1929
Assistant Director
The Fightin' Redhead
1928
Assistant Director
Driftin' Sands
1928
Assistant Director
Her Father Said No
1927
Assistant Director
- Red Hot Hoofs
Red Hot Hoofs
1926
Assistant Director
The Midnight Flyer
1925
Assistant Director
