Sam Nelson
AKA:
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1896-05-11
Whttier, California, USA
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
Crew Roles
The Midnight Flyer
Assistant Director
Don't Knock The Rock
Assistant Director
The Doolins of Oklahoma
Assistant Director
The Outlaw
Assistant Director
The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
Director
Mandrake the Magician
Director
Overland with Kit Carson
Director
Rain or Shine
Assistant Director
Washington Merry-Go-Round
Assistant Director
The Last Hurrah
Assistant Director
Konga, the Wild Stallion
Director
Cowboy
Assistant Director
The Violent Men
Assistant Director
The Tall T
Assistant Director
Decision at Sundown
Assistant Director
Bullets for Rustlers
Director
The Man from Sundown
Director
Outlaws of the Prairie
Director
The White Squaw
Assistant Director
West of the Santa Fe
Director
The Stranger from Texas
Director
Pioneers of the Frontier
Director
Western Caravans
Director
Fifi Blows Her Top
Assistant Director
No More Orchids
Assistant Director
Rusty Romeos
Assistant Director
The Menace
Producer
Way Back Home
Assistant Director
A Raisin in the Sun
Assistant Director
Some Like It Hot
Assistant Director
Mexicali Rose
Assistant Director
Texas Stampede
Director
Prairie Schooners
Director
Santa Fe
Assistant Director
Bandit Ranger
Second Unit
The Lady from Shanghai
Assistant Director
3:10 to Yuma
Assistant Director
Parents on Trial
Director
What's Love
Special Effects
A Walk in the Sun
Assistant Director
Sagebrush Law
Director
Experiment in Terror
Assistant Director
Rio Grande
Director
North of the Yukon
Director
The Avenging Rider
Director
Ann Carver's Profession
Assistant Director
All the King's Men
Assistant Director
Outlaws of the Panhandle
Director
The Last Frontier
Assistant Director
Gallant Journey
Assistant Director
Good Day for a Hanging
Assistant Director
My Sister Eileen
Assistant Director
Comanche Station
Assistant Director
Mandrake the Magician
Director
The Man Who Turned to Stone
Assistant Director
Reprisal!
Assistant Director
Three Hours to Kill
Assistant Director
Pennies from Heaven
Assistant Director
Jack London
Assistant Director
It Had to Be You
Assistant Director
And Then There Were None
Assistant Director
Colorado Trail
Director
The Miracle Woman
Assistant Director
The Corsican Brothers
Assistant Director
Guest in the House
Assistant Director
Tell It to the Judge
Assistant Director
Affair in Trinidad
Assistant Director
The Walking Hills
Assistant Director
The Wackiest Ship in the Army
Assistant Director
No Sad Songs for Me
Assistant Director
By Love Possessed
Assistant Director
Let No Man Write My Epitaph
Assistant Director
The Return of October
Assistant Director
Cattle Raiders
Director
The Thundering West
Director
Law of the Plains
Director
Virtue
Assistant Director
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