Sam Nelson

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1896-05-11

Deathday 1963-05-01 (66 years old)

Place of Birth Whttier, California, USA

Sam Nelson

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

Director

1962
Experiment in Terror

as Assistant Director

1961
A Raisin in the Sun

as Assistant Director

1961
By Love Possessed

as Assistant Director

1960
Comanche Station

as Assistant Director

1960
The Wackiest Ship in the Army

as Assistant Director

1960
Let No Man Write My Epitaph

as Assistant Director

1959
Some Like It Hot

as Assistant Director

1959
Good Day for a Hanging

as Assistant Director

1958
The Last Hurrah

as Assistant Director

1958
Cowboy

as Assistant Director

1958
Fifi Blows Her Top

as Assistant Director

1957
The Tall T

as Assistant Director

1957
Decision at Sundown

as Assistant Director

1957
Rusty Romeos

as Assistant Director

1957
3:10 to Yuma

as Assistant Director

1957
The Man Who Turned to Stone

as Assistant Director

1956
Don't Knock The Rock

as Assistant Director

1956
The White Squaw

as Assistant Director

1956
Reprisal!

as Assistant Director

1955
The Violent Men

as Assistant Director

1955
The Last Frontier

as Assistant Director

1955
My Sister Eileen

as Assistant Director

1954
Three Hours to Kill

as Assistant Director

1952
Affair in Trinidad

as Assistant Director

1951
Santa Fe

as Assistant Director

1950
No Sad Songs for Me

as Assistant Director

1949
The Doolins of Oklahoma

as Assistant Director

1949
All the King's Men

as Assistant Director

1949
Tell It to the Judge

as Assistant Director

1949
The Walking Hills

as Assistant Director

1948
The Return of October

as Assistant Director

1947
The Lady from Shanghai

as Assistant Director

1947
It Had to Be You

as Assistant Director

1946
Gallant Journey

as Assistant Director

1945
A Walk in the Sun

as Assistant Director

1945
And Then There Were None

as Assistant Director

1944
Guest in the House

as Assistant Director

1943
The Outlaw

as Assistant Director

1943
Sagebrush Law

as Director

1943
The Avenging Rider

as Director

1943
Jack London

as Assistant Director

1941
1941
The Corsican Brothers

as Assistant Director

1940
1940
1940
Prairie Schooners

as Director

1940
1939
1939
1939
1939
1939
1939
Western Caravans

as Director

1939
Texas Stampede

as Director

1939
Parents on Trial

as Director

1939
North of the Yukon

as Director

1939
1938
1938
Rio Grande

as Director

1938
Colorado Trail

as Director

1938
Cattle Raiders

as Director

1937
1936
Pennies from Heaven

as Assistant Director

1933
Ann Carver's Profession

as Assistant Director

1932
Washington Merry-Go-Round

as Assistant Director

1932
No More Orchids

as Assistant Director

1931
Way Back Home

as Assistant Director

1931
The Miracle Woman

as Assistant Director

1930
Rain or Shine

as Assistant Director

1929
Mexicali Rose

as Assistant Director

1925
The Midnight Flyer

as Assistant Director

Actor

1947
The Lady from Shanghai

as Captain of Yacht Circe (uncredited)

1930
Soldiers and Women

as Pvt. Delehanty

1929
1929
The Vagabond Cub

as Bob McDonald

1928
1927
Breed of Courage

as Alan Haliday

Crew

1987
What's Love

as Special Effects

1942
Bandit Ranger

as Second Unit

Producer

1932
The Menace

as Producer