Sam Nelson
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- May 11, 1896, Whttier, California, USA
- Died
- May 1, 1963
- Movies
- 38
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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Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 1947 | The Lady from Shanghai | Captain of Yacht Circe (uncredited) |
| 1930 | Soldiers and Women | Pvt. Delehanty |
| 1929 | The Little Savage | Norton |
| 1929 | The One Man Dog | Larry |
| 1929 | The Vagabond Cub | Bob McDonald |
| 1928 | The Circus Kid | Tad |
| 1928 | Crooks Can't Win | Danny Malone |
| 1927 | The Swift Shadow | Jim |
| 1927 | The Boy Rider | Terry McNeil |
| 1927 | Breed of Courage | Alan Haliday |
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 1943 | The Avenging Rider | Director |
| 1943 | Sagebrush Law | Director |
| 1941 | Outlaws of the Panhandle | Director |
| 1940 | Prairie Schooners | Director |
| 1940 | Bullets for Rustlers | Director |
| 1940 | Pioneers of the Frontier | Director |
| 1940 | Mandrake the Magician | Director |
| 1939 | The Stranger from Texas | Director |
| 1939 | Parents on Trial | Director |
| 1939 | Konga, the Wild Stallion | Director |
| 1939 | Overland with Kit Carson | Director |
| 1939 | The Man from Sundown | Director |
| 1939 | Western Caravans | Director |
| 1939 | Mandrake the Magician | Director |
| 1939 | North of the Yukon | Director |
| 1939 | Texas Stampede | Director |
| 1939 | The Thundering West | Director |
| 1938 | Rio Grande | Director |
| 1938 | West of the Santa Fe | Director |
| 1938 | Colorado Trail | Director |
| 1938 | South of Arizona | Director |
| 1938 | The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok | Director |
| 1938 | West of Cheyenne | Director |
| 1938 | Law of the Plains | Director |
| 1938 | Cattle Raiders | Director |
| 1937 | Outlaws of the Prairie | Director |
| 1932 | The Last Man | Writer |
| 1932 | The Menace | Producer |
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