Directing
Sam Nelson
EN, FR, XX cinema · 97 credits
Born
11 May 1896
Died
1 May 1963 (aged 66)
Birthplace
Whttier, California, USA
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
What's Love
Special Effects
Experiment in Terror
Assistant Director
A Raisin in the Sun
Assistant Director
By Love Possessed
Assistant Director
Comanche Station
Assistant Director
The Wackiest Ship in the Army
Assistant Director
Let No Man Write My Epitaph
Assistant Director
Some Like It Hot
Assistant Director
Good Day for a Hanging
Assistant Director
The Last Hurrah
Assistant Director
Cowboy
Assistant Director
Fifi Blows Her Top
Assistant Director
The Tall T
Assistant Director
Decision at Sundown
Assistant Director
Rusty Romeos
Assistant Director
3:10 to Yuma
Assistant Director
The Man Who Turned to Stone
Assistant Director
Don't Knock The Rock
Assistant Director
The White Squaw
Assistant Director
Reprisal!
Assistant Director
The Violent Men
Assistant Director
The Last Frontier
Assistant Director
My Sister Eileen
Assistant Director
Three Hours to Kill
Assistant Director
Affair in Trinidad
Assistant Director
Santa Fe
Assistant Director
No Sad Songs for Me
Assistant Director
The Doolins of Oklahoma
Assistant Director
All the King's Men
Assistant Director
Tell It to the Judge
Assistant Director
The Walking Hills
Assistant Director
The Return of October
Assistant Director
The Lady from Shanghai
as Captain of Yacht Circe (uncredited), Assistant Director
It Had to Be You
Assistant Director
Gallant Journey
Assistant Director
A Walk in the Sun
Assistant Director
And Then There Were None
Assistant Director
Guest in the House
Assistant Director
The Outlaw
Assistant Director
Sagebrush Law
Director
The Avenging Rider
Director
Jack London
Assistant Director
Bandit Ranger
Second Unit
The Corsican Brothers
Assistant Director
Bullets for Rustlers
Director
Prairie Schooners
Director
Western Caravans
Director
Texas Stampede
Director
Parents on Trial
Director
North of the Yukon
Director
The Thundering West
Director
West of the Santa Fe
Director
Rio Grande
Director
Colorado Trail
Director
Cattle Raiders
Director
Law of the Plains
Director
South of Arizona
Director
West of Cheyenne
Director
Pennies from Heaven
Assistant Director
Ann Carver's Profession
Assistant Director
Washington Merry-Go-Round
Assistant Director
No More Orchids
Assistant Director
The Menace
Producer
Virtue
Assistant Director
The Last Man
Writer
Way Back Home
Assistant Director
The Miracle Woman
Assistant Director
Soldiers and Women
as Pvt. Delehanty
Rain or Shine
Assistant Director
Personality
Assistant Director
Guilty?
Assistant Director
The Vagabond Cub
1929
The Vagabond Cub
as Bob McDonald
Mexicali Rose
Assistant Director
The Yellowback
Assistant Director
Song of Love
Assistant Director
Crooks Can't Win
as Danny Malone
The Fightin' Redhead
Assistant Director
Driftin' Sands
Assistant Director
Breed of Courage
1927
Breed of Courage
as Alan Haliday
The Boy Rider
1927
The Boy Rider
as Terry McNeil
Her Father Said No
Assistant Director
Red Hot Hoofs
1926
Red Hot Hoofs
Assistant Director
The Midnight Flyer
Assistant Director