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Sam Nelson

Sam Nelson

Directing1896Whttier, 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.

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Acting History

1962
Experiment in Terror
Assistant Director
1961
A Raisin in the Sun
Assistant Director
By Love Possessed
Assistant Director
1960
Comanche Station
Assistant Director
Let No Man Write My Epitaph
Assistant Director
1959
Some Like It Hot
Assistant Director
Good Day for a Hanging
Assistant Director
1958
The Last Hurrah
Assistant Director
Fifi Blows Her Top
Assistant Director
Cowboy
Assistant Director
1957
Decision at Sundown
Assistant Director
The Tall T
Assistant Director
The Man Who Turned to Stone
Assistant Director
Rusty Romeos
Assistant Director
3:10 to Yuma
Assistant Director
1956
The White Squaw
Assistant Director
Reprisal!
Assistant Director
Don't Knock The Rock
Assistant Director
1955
The Violent Men
Assistant Director
The Last Frontier
Assistant Director
My Sister Eileen
Assistant Director
1954
Three Hours to Kill
Assistant Director
1952
Affair in Trinidad
Assistant Director
1951
Santa Fe
Assistant Director
1950
No Sad Songs for Me
Assistant Director
1949
The Doolins of Oklahoma
Assistant Director
All the King's Men
Assistant Director
The Walking Hills
Assistant Director
Tell It to the Judge
Assistant Director
1948
The Return of October
Assistant Director
1947
The Lady from Shanghai
as Captain of Yacht Circe (uncredited)
The Lady from Shanghai
Assistant Director
It Had to Be You
Assistant Director
1946
Gallant Journey
Assistant Director
1945
A Walk in the Sun
Assistant Director
And Then There Were None
Assistant Director
1943
The Outlaw
Assistant Director
Jack London
Assistant Director
1942
Bandit Ranger
Second Unit
1941
The Corsican Brothers
Assistant Director
1936
Pennies from Heaven
Assistant Director
1933
Ann Carver's Profession
Assistant Director
1932
The Menace
Producer
Virtue
Assistant Director
Washington Merry-Go-Round
Assistant Director
No More Orchids
Assistant Director
1931
The Miracle Woman
Assistant Director
Way Back Home
Assistant Director
1930
Soldiers and Women
as Pvt. Delehanty
Rain or Shine
Assistant Director
Guilty?
Assistant Director
1929
Mexicali Rose
Assistant Director
1928

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Personal Info

Known For
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
5/11/1896
Day of Death
5/1/1963
Place of Birth
Whttier, California, USA
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