Sam Nelson
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- May 11, 1896
- Died
- May 1, 1963 (aged 66)
- Birthplace
- 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
Known For
Filmography
Experiment in Terror
Movie · Assistant Director
A Raisin in the Sun
Movie · Assistant Director
By Love Possessed
Movie · Assistant Director
Comanche Station
Movie · Assistant Director
The Wackiest Ship in the Army
Movie · Assistant Director
Let No Man Write My Epitaph
Movie · Assistant Director
Some Like It Hot
Movie · Assistant Director
Good Day for a Hanging
Movie · Assistant Director
The Last Hurrah
Movie · Assistant Director
Cowboy
Movie · Assistant Director
Fifi Blows Her Top
Movie · Assistant Director
Decision at Sundown
Movie · Assistant Director
The Tall T
Movie · Assistant Director
Rusty Romeos
Movie · Assistant Director
3:10 to Yuma
Movie · Assistant Director
The Man Who Turned to Stone
Movie · Assistant Director
Don't Knock The Rock
Movie · Assistant Director
The White Squaw
Movie · Assistant Director
Reprisal!
Movie · Assistant Director
The Violent Men
Movie · Assistant Director
The Last Frontier
Movie · Assistant Director
My Sister Eileen
Movie · Assistant Director
Three Hours to Kill
Movie · Assistant Director
Affair in Trinidad
Movie · Assistant Director
Santa Fe
Movie · Assistant Director
No Sad Songs for Me
Movie · Assistant Director
The Doolins of Oklahoma
Movie · Assistant Director
All the King's Men
Movie · Assistant Director
Tell It to the Judge
Movie · Assistant Director
The Walking Hills
Movie · Assistant Director
The Return of October
Movie · Assistant Director
The Lady from Shanghai
Movie · Assistant Director
It Had to Be You
Movie · Assistant Director
Gallant Journey
Movie · Assistant Director
A Walk in the Sun
Movie · Assistant Director
And Then There Were None
Movie · Assistant Director
Guest in the House
Movie · Assistant Director
The Outlaw
Movie · Assistant Director
Sagebrush Law
Movie · Director
The Avenging Rider
Movie · Director
Jack London
Movie · Assistant Director
The Corsican Brothers
Movie · Assistant Director
Outlaws of the Panhandle
Movie · Director
Bullets for Rustlers
Movie · Director
Pioneers of the Frontier
Movie · Director
Prairie Schooners
Movie · Director
Mandrake the Magician
Movie · Director
Mandrake the Magician
Movie · Director
Overland with Kit Carson
Movie · Director
Konga, the Wild Stallion
Movie · Director
The Man from Sundown
Movie · Director
The Stranger from Texas
Movie · Director
Western Caravans
Movie · Director
Texas Stampede
Movie · Director
Parents on Trial
Movie · Director
North of the Yukon
Movie · Director
The Thundering West
Movie · Director
The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
Movie · Director
West of the Santa Fe
Movie · Director
Rio Grande
Movie · Director
Colorado Trail
Movie · Director
Cattle Raiders
Movie · Director
Law of the Plains
Movie · Director
South of Arizona
Movie · Director
West of Cheyenne
Movie · Director
Outlaws of the Prairie
Movie · Director
Pennies from Heaven
Movie · Assistant Director
Ann Carver's Profession
Movie · Assistant Director
Washington Merry-Go-Round
Movie · Assistant Director
No More Orchids
Movie · Assistant Director
Virtue
Movie · Assistant Director
Way Back Home
Movie · Assistant Director
The Miracle Woman
Movie · Assistant Director
Rain or Shine
Movie · Assistant Director
Personality
Movie · Assistant Director
Guilty?
Movie · Assistant Director
Mexicali Rose
Movie · Assistant Director
The Yellowback
Movie · Assistant Director
Song of Love
Movie · Assistant Director
The Fightin' Redhead
Movie · Assistant Director
Driftin' Sands
Movie · Assistant Director
Her Father Said No
Movie · Assistant Director
Red Hot Hoofs
Movie · Assistant Director
The Midnight Flyer
Movie · Assistant Director