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Known For

Directing

Known Credits

6

Gender

Male

Birthday

1896-05-11

Deathday

1963-05-01 (66 years old)

Place of Birth

Whttier, California, USA

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 appeared in over a dozen films in small roles.

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Known For

The Lady from Shanghai
7.3%

The Lady from Shanghai

Dec 24, 1947

Soldiers and Women
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Soldiers and Women

Apr 30, 1930

BoC
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Breed of Courage

Aug 6, 1927

TVC
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The Vagabond Cub

Feb 10, 1929

TLS
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The Little Savage

May 19, 1929

The Circus Kid
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The Circus Kid

Oct 7, 1928

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Acting

1947
The Lady from Shanghai as Captain of Yacht Circe (uncredited)
1930
Soldiers and Women as Pvt. Delehanty
1929
The Little Savage as Norton
1929
The Vagabond Cub as Bob McDonald
1928
The Circus Kid as Tad
1927
Breed of Courage as Alan Haliday

Crew

1987
What's Love as Special Effects
1942
Bandit Ranger as Second Unit

Directing

1962
Experiment in Terror as Assistant Director
1961
By Love Possessed as Assistant Director
1961
A Raisin in the Sun as Assistant Director
1960
The Wackiest Ship in the Army as Assistant Director
1960
Let No Man Write My Epitaph as Assistant Director
1960
Comanche Station as Assistant Director
1959
Some Like It Hot as Assistant Director
1959
Good Day for a Hanging as Assistant Director
1958
The Last Hurrah as Assistant Director
1958
Fifi Blows Her Top as Assistant Director
1958
Cowboy as Assistant Director
1957
Decision at Sundown as Assistant Director
1957
Rusty Romeos as Assistant Director
1957
3:10 to Yuma as Assistant Director
1957
The Tall T as Assistant Director
1957
The Man Who Turned to Stone as Assistant Director
1956
Don't Knock The Rock as Assistant Director
1956
Reprisal! as Assistant Director
1956
The White Squaw as Assistant Director
1955
The Last Frontier as Assistant Director
1955
My Sister Eileen as Assistant Director
1955
The Violent Men as Assistant Director
1954
Three Hours to Kill as Assistant Director
1952
Affair in Trinidad as Assistant Director
1951
Santa Fe as Assistant Director
1950
No Sad Songs for Me as Assistant Director
1949
Tell It to the Judge as Assistant Director
1949
All the King's Men as Assistant Director
1949
The Doolins of Oklahoma as Assistant Director
1949
The Walking Hills as Assistant Director
1948
The Return of October as Assistant Director
1947
The Lady from Shanghai as Assistant Director
1947
It Had to Be You as Assistant Director
1946
Gallant Journey as Assistant Director
1945
A Walk in the Sun as Assistant Director
1945
And Then There Were None as Assistant Director
1944
Guest in the House as Assistant Director
1943
Jack London as Assistant Director
1943
The Avenging Rider as Director
1943
Sagebrush Law as Director
1943
The Outlaw as Assistant Director
1941
The Corsican Brothers as Assistant Director
1941
Outlaws of the Panhandle as Director
1940
Prairie Schooners as Director
1940
Bullets for Rustlers as Director
1940
Pioneers of the Frontier as Director
1940
Mandrake the Magician as Director
1939
The Stranger from Texas as Director
1939
Parents on Trial as Director
1939
Konga, the Wild Stallion as Director
1939
Overland with Kit Carson as Director
1939
The Man from Sundown as Director
1939
Western Caravans as Director
1939
Mandrake the Magician as Director
1939
North of the Yukon as Director
1939
Texas Stampede as Director
1939
The Thundering West as Director
1938
Rio Grande as Director
1938
West of the Santa Fe as Director
1938
Colorado Trail as Director
1938
The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok as Director
1938
Law of the Plains as Director
1938
Cattle Raiders as Director
1937
Outlaws of the Prairie as Director
1936
Pennies from Heaven as Assistant Director
1933
Ann Carver's Profession as Assistant Director
1932
No More Orchids as Assistant Director
1932
Virtue as Assistant Director
1932
Washington Merry-Go-Round as Assistant Director
1931
Way Back Home as Assistant Director
1931
The Miracle Woman as Assistant Director
1930
Rain or Shine as Assistant Director
1929
Mexicali Rose as Assistant Director
1925
The Midnight Flyer as Assistant Director

Production

1932
The Menace as Producer
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