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Sam Nelson

Known for: Directing

Biography: 1896-05-11

Deathday: 1963-05-01 (66 years old)

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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Filmography

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Movies 84

Director 74

Writer 1

Producer 1

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Sam Nelson

Biography

Filmography

all 84

Movies 84

Director 74

Writer 1

Producer 1

What's Love (1987)

Experiment in Terror (1962)

By Love Possessed (1961)

A Raisin in the Sun (1961)

The Wackiest Ship in the Army (1960)

Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1960)

Comanche Station (1960)

Some Like It Hot (1959)

Good Day for a Hanging (1959)

The Last Hurrah (1958)

Fifi Blows Her Top (1958)

Cowboy (1958)

Decision at Sundown (1957)

Rusty Romeos (1957)

3:10 to Yuma (1957)

The Tall T (1957)

The Man Who Turned to Stone (1957)

Don't Knock The Rock (1956)

Reprisal! (1956)

The White Squaw (1956)

The Last Frontier (1955)

My Sister Eileen (1955)

The Violent Men (1955)

Three Hours to Kill (1954)

Affair in Trinidad (1952)

Santa Fe (1951)

No Sad Songs for Me (1950)

Tell It to the Judge (1949)

All the King's Men (1949)

The Doolins of Oklahoma (1949)

The Walking Hills (1949)

The Return of October (1948)

The Lady from Shanghai (1947)

It Had to Be You (1947)

Gallant Journey (1946)

A Walk in the Sun (1945)

And Then There Were None (1945)

Guest in the House (1944)

Jack London (1943)

The Avenging Rider (1943)

Sagebrush Law (1943)

The Outlaw (1943)

Bandit Ranger (1942)

The Corsican Brothers (1941)

Outlaws of the Panhandle (1941)

Prairie Schooners (1940)

Bullets for Rustlers (1940)

Pioneers of the Frontier (1940)

Mandrake the Magician (1940)

The Stranger from Texas (1939)

Parents on Trial (1939)

Konga, the Wild Stallion (1939)

Overland with Kit Carson (1939)

The Man from Sundown (1939)

Western Caravans (1939)

Mandrake the Magician (1939)

North of the Yukon (1939)

Texas Stampede (1939)

The Thundering West (1939)

Rio Grande (1938)

West of the Santa Fe (1938)

Colorado Trail (1938)

South of Arizona (1938)

The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok (1938)

West of Cheyenne (1938)

Cattle Raiders (1938)

Outlaws of the Prairie (1937)

Pennies from Heaven (1936)

Ann Carver's Profession (1933)

No More Orchids (1932)

Washington Merry-Go-Round (1932)

The Last Man (1932)

Known For
Directing

Gender
Male

Birthday
1896-05-11

Deathday
1963-05-01 (66 years old)

Birth Place
Whittier, United States

Citizenships
United States