Sam Nelson
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- May 11, 1896
- Died
- May 1, 1963
- 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
Filmography

What's Love 1987
Special Effects

Experiment in Terror 1962
Assistant Director

By Love Possessed 1961
Assistant Director

A Raisin in the Sun 1961
Assistant Director

The Wackiest Ship in the Army 1960
Assistant Director

Let No Man Write My Epitaph 1960
Assistant Director

Comanche Station 1960
Assistant Director

Some Like It Hot 1959
Assistant Director

Good Day for a Hanging 1959
Assistant Director

The Last Hurrah 1958
Assistant Director

Fifi Blows Her Top 1958
Assistant Director

Cowboy 1958
Assistant Director

Decision at Sundown 1957
Assistant Director

Rusty Romeos 1957
Assistant Director

3:10 to Yuma 1957
Assistant Director

The Tall T 1957
Assistant Director

The Man Who Turned to Stone 1957
Assistant Director

Don't Knock The Rock 1956
Assistant Director

Reprisal! 1956
Assistant Director

The White Squaw 1956
Assistant Director

The Last Frontier 1955
Assistant Director

My Sister Eileen 1955
Assistant Director

The Violent Men 1955
Assistant Director

Three Hours to Kill 1954
Assistant Director

Affair in Trinidad 1952
Assistant Director

Santa Fe 1951
Assistant Director

No Sad Songs for Me 1950
Assistant Director

Tell It to the Judge 1949
Assistant Director

All the King's Men 1949
Assistant Director

The Doolins of Oklahoma 1949
Assistant Director

The Walking Hills 1949
Assistant Director

The Return of October 1948
Assistant Director

The Lady from Shanghai 1947
as Captain of Yacht Circe (uncredited), Assistant Director

It Had to Be You 1947
Assistant Director

Gallant Journey 1946
Assistant Director

A Walk in the Sun 1945
Assistant Director

And Then There Were None 1945
Assistant Director

Guest in the House 1944
Assistant Director

Jack London 1943
Assistant Director

The Avenging Rider 1943
Director

Sagebrush Law 1943
Director

The Outlaw 1943
Assistant Director

Bandit Ranger 1942
Second Unit

The Corsican Brothers 1942
Assistant Director

Outlaws of the Panhandle 1941
Director

Prairie Schooners 1940
Director

Bullets for Rustlers 1940
Director

Pioneers of the Frontier 1940
Director

Mandrake the Magician 1940
Director

The Stranger from Texas 1939
Director

Parents on Trial 1939
Director

Konga, the Wild Stallion 1939
Director

Overland with Kit Carson 1939
Director

The Man from Sundown 1939
Director

Western Caravans 1939
Director

Mandrake the Magician 1939
Director

North of the Yukon 1939
Director

Texas Stampede 1939
Director

The Thundering West 1939
Director

Rio Grande 1938
Director

West of the Santa Fe 1938
Director

Colorado Trail 1938
Director

South of Arizona 1938
Director

West of Cheyenne 1938
Director

The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok 1938
Director

Law of the Plains 1938
Director

Cattle Raiders 1938
Director

Outlaws of the Prairie 1937
Director

Pennies from Heaven 1936
Assistant Director

Ann Carver's Profession 1933
Assistant Director

No More Orchids 1932
Assistant Director

Virtue 1932
Assistant Director

Washington Merry-Go-Round 1932
Assistant Director

The Last Man 1932
Writer

The Menace 1932
Producer

Way Back Home 1931
Assistant Director

The Miracle Woman 1931
Assistant Director

Rain or Shine 1930
Assistant Director

Soldiers and Women 1930
as Pvt. Delehanty

Guilty? 1930
Assistant Director

Personality 1930
Assistant Director

Mexicali Rose 1929
Assistant Director

Song of Love 1929
Assistant Director
- The Little Savage
The Little Savage 1929
as Norton
- The One Man Dog
The One Man Dog 1929
as Larry
- The Vagabond Cub
The Vagabond Cub 1929
as Bob McDonald

The Yellowback 1929
Assistant Director

The Circus Kid 1928
as Tad

The Fightin' Redhead 1928
Assistant Director

Crooks Can't Win 1928
as Danny Malone

Driftin' Sands 1928
Assistant Director

The Swift Shadow 1927
as Jim
- The Boy Rider
The Boy Rider 1927
as Terry McNeil
- Breed of Courage
Breed of Courage 1927
as Alan Haliday

Her Father Said No 1927
Assistant Director
- Red Hot Hoofs
Red Hot Hoofs 1926
Assistant Director

The Midnight Flyer 1925
Assistant Director
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