Sam Nelson
Sam Nelson | |
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| Born | May 11, 1896 Whittier, California United States |
| Died | May 1, 1963 (aged 66) Hollywood, California, United States |
| Occupation | Director |
| Years active | 1925-1963 |
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.[1]
Filmography[]
Director[]
- Outlaws of the Prairie (1937)
- Cattle Raiders (1938)
- Law of the Plains (1938)
- West of Cheyenne (1938)
- The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok (1938)
- South of Arizona (1938)
- (1938)
- West of the Santa Fe (1938)
- Rio Grande (1938)
- Law of the Plains (1938)
- North of the Yukon (1939)
- (1939)
- Western Caravans (1939)
- The Man from Sundown (1939)
- Overland with Kit Carson (1939)
- Konga, the Wild Stallion (1939)
- (1939)
- The Stranger from Texas (1939)
- The Thundering West (1939)
- Pioneers of the Frontier (1940)
- Bullets for Rustlers (1940)
- Prairie Schooners (1940)
- Outlaws of the Panhandle (1941)
- Sagebrush Law (1943)
- The Avenging Rider (1943)
Assistant director[]
- (1925)
- Red Hot Hoofs (1926)
- Her Father Said No (1927)
- (1928)
- Dog Law (1928)
- The Fightin' Redhead (1928)
- Lightning Speed (1928)
- The Little Buckaroo (1928)
- (1929)
- Mexicali Rose (1929)
- The Song of Love (1929)
- Wall Street (1929)
- The Yellowback (1929)
- The Melody Man (1930)
- Call of the West (1930)
- Guilty? (1930)
- Personality (1930)
- Rain or Shine (1930)
- A Royal Romance (1930)
- Way Back Home (1931)
- Dirigible (1931)
- The Flood (1931)
- Arizona (1931)
- Washington Merry-Go-Round (1932)
- The Night Club Lady (1932)
- No More Orchids (1932)
- (1932)
- Virtue (1932)
- As the Devil Commands (1932)
- The Fighting Code (1933)
- (1933)
- Ann Carver's Profession (1933)
- When Strangers Marry (1933)
- More Than a Secretary (1936)
- Pennies From Heaven (1936)
- They Met in a Taxi (1936)
- The Old Wyoming Trail (1937)
- Life Begins with Love (1937)
- Let's Get Married (1937)
- Murder in Greenwich Village (1937)
- Two Fisted Sheriff (1937)
- Venus Makes Trouble (1937)
- Girls Can Play (1937)
- The Game That Kills (1937)
- (1938)
- The Thundering West (1939)
- (1939)
- Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
- Arizona (1940)
- International Lady (1941)
- The Corsican Brothers (1942)
- Bandit Ranger (1942)
- Friendly Enemies (1942)
- A Gentleman After Dark (1942)
- Fighting Frontier (1943)
- Jack London (1943)
- Lady of Burlesque (1943)
- The North Star (1943)
- The Outlaw (1943)
- The Hairy Ape (1944)
- Guest in the House (1944)
- Take It Big (1944)
- And Then There Were None (1945)
- Delightfully Dangerous (1945)
- Getting Gertie's Garter (1945)
- Strange Holiday (1945)
- A Walk in the Sun (1946)
- Gallant Journey (1946)
- I've Always Loved You (1946)
- The Return of Monte Cristo (1946)
- The Walls Came Tumbling Down (1946)
- It Had to Be You (1947)
- I Surrender Dear (1948)
- The Lady from Shanghai (1948)
- The Return of October (1948)
- Triple Threat (1948)
- The Doolins of Oklahoma (1949)
- Tell It to the Judge (1949)
- The Walking Hills (1949)
- All the King's Men (1950)
- Cargo to Capetown (1950)
- No Sad Songs for Me (1950)
- The Brave Bulls (1951)
- The Family Secret (1951)
- My True Story (1951)
- Santa Fe (1951)
- Two of a Kind (1951)
- Affair in Trinidad (1952)
- The Four Poster (1953)
- Flame of Calcutta (1953)
- The Member of the Wedding (1953)
- Conquest of Cochise (1953)
- Miss Sadie Thompson (1954)
- The Iron Glove (1954)
- Jesse James vs. the Daltons (1954)
- Three Hours to Kill (1954)
- They Rode West (1954)
- My Sister Eileen (1955)
- The Violent Men (1955)
- Uranium Boom (1956)
- You Can't Run Away from It (1956)
- The White Squaw (1956)
- The Last Frontier (1956)
- Reprisal! (1956)
- Don't Knock the Rock (1957)
- Decision at Sundown (1957)
- The Man Who Turned to Stone (1957)
- The Tall T (1957)
- 3:10 to Yuma (1957)
- Cowboy (1958)
- The Last Hurrah (1958)
- Gunman's Walk (1958)
- Good Day for a Hanging (1959)
- The Flying Fontaines (1959)
- Some Like It Hot (1959)
- Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1960)
- Comanche Station (1960)
- By Love Possessed (1961)
- A Raisin in the Sun (1961)
- (1961)
- Don't Knock the Twist (1962)
- The Wild Westerners (1962)
- Sail a Crooked Ship (1962)
- Experiment in Terror (1962)
- 13 Frightened Girls (1963)
- Diamond Head (1963)
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Sam Nelson". American Film Institute. Archived from the original on August 21, 2017. Retrieved August 20, 2017.
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- American film directors
- 1896 births
- 1963 deaths