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 appe…
Known For
Some Like It Hot
Assistant Director
The Lady from Shanghai
Captain of Yacht Circe (uncredited)
3:10 to Yuma
Assistant Director
And Then There Were None
Assistant Director
All the King's Men
Assistant Director
A Raisin in the Sun
Assistant Director
The Tall T
Assistant Director
Experiment in Terror
Assistant Director
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Filmography
Acting (10)
Movies (10)
The Lady from Shanghai
1947as Captain of Yacht Circe (uncredited)
Soldiers and Women
1930as Pvt. Delehanty
The Vagabond Cub
1929as Bob McDonald
The Little Savage
1929as Norton
The One Man Dog
1929as Larry
Crooks Can't Win
1928as Danny Malone
The Circus Kid
1928as Tad
Breed of Courage
1927as Alan Haliday
The Swift Shadow
1927as Jim
The Boy Rider
1927as Terry McNeil
Crew (88)
Movies (88)
What's Love
1987Special Effects
Experiment in Terror
1962Assistant Director
A Raisin in the Sun
1961Assistant Director
By Love Possessed
1961Assistant Director
Comanche Station
1960Assistant Director
Let No Man Write My Epitaph
1960Assistant Director
The Wackiest Ship in the Army
1960Assistant Director
Some Like It Hot
1959Assistant Director
Good Day for a Hanging
1959Assistant Director
The Last Hurrah
1958Assistant Director
Cowboy
1958Assistant Director
Fifi Blows Her Top
1958Assistant Director
3:10 to Yuma
1957Assistant Director
The Tall T
1957Assistant Director
Rusty Romeos
1957Assistant Director
Decision at Sundown
1957Assistant Director
The Man Who Turned to Stone
1957Assistant Director
Reprisal!
1956Assistant Director
The White Squaw
1956Assistant Director
Don't Knock The Rock
1956Assistant Director
The Last Frontier
1955Assistant Director
The Violent Men
1955Assistant Director
My Sister Eileen
1955Assistant Director
Three Hours to Kill
1954Assistant Director
Affair in Trinidad
1952Assistant Director
Santa Fe
1951Assistant Director
No Sad Songs for Me
1950Assistant Director
The Walking Hills
1949Assistant Director
All the King's Men
1949Assistant Director
The Doolins of Oklahoma
1949Assistant Director
Tell It to the Judge
1949Assistant Director
The Return of October
1948Assistant Director
The Lady from Shanghai
1947Assistant Director
It Had to Be You
1947Assistant Director
Gallant Journey
1946Assistant Director
A Walk in the Sun
1945Assistant Director
And Then There Were None
1945Assistant Director
Guest in the House
1944Assistant Director
The Outlaw
1943Assistant Director
Jack London
1943Assistant Director
The Avenging Rider
1943Director
Sagebrush Law
1943Director
Bandit Ranger
1942Second Unit
The Corsican Brothers
1941Assistant Director
Outlaws of the Panhandle
1941Director
Pioneers of the Frontier
1940Director
Prairie Schooners
1940Director
Mandrake the Magician
1940Director
Bullets for Rustlers
1940Director
The Stranger from Texas
1939Director
Parents on Trial
1939Director
Mandrake the Magician
1939Director
Overland with Kit Carson
1939Director
The Thundering West
1939Director
Western Caravans
1939Director
Texas Stampede
1939Director
The Man from Sundown
1939Director
North of the Yukon
1939Director
Konga, the Wild Stallion
1939Director
Rio Grande
1938Director
Law of the Plains
1938Director
South of Arizona
1938Director
Colorado Trail
1938Director
The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
1938Director
West of the Santa Fe
1938Director
Cattle Raiders
1938Director
West of Cheyenne
1938Director
Outlaws of the Prairie
1937Director
Pennies from Heaven
1936Assistant Director
Ann Carver's Profession
1933Assistant Director
Washington Merry-Go-Round
1932Assistant Director
Virtue
1932Assistant Director
The Menace
1932Producer
No More Orchids
1932Assistant Director
The Last Man
1932Writer
Way Back Home
1931Assistant Director
The Miracle Woman
1931Assistant Director
Personality
1930Assistant Director
Rain or Shine
1930Assistant Director
Guilty?
1930Assistant Director
Mexicali Rose
1929Assistant Director
Song of Love
1929Assistant Director
The Yellowback
1929Assistant Director
Driftin' Sands
1928Assistant Director
The Fightin' Redhead
1928Assistant Director
Her Father Said No
1927Assistant Director
Red Hot Hoofs
1926Assistant Director
The Midnight Flyer
1925Assistant Director
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