Sam Nelson
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- May 11, 1896
- Place of birth
- Whttier, California, USA
- Died
- May 1, 1963
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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Movies with Sam Nelson
- The Lady from Shanghai 1947 · ★ 7.3
- Soldiers and Women 1930 · ★ 3.0
- Breed of Courage 1927 · ★ 7.0
- The Little Savage 1929 · ★ 8.0
- The Circus Kid 1928 · ★ 9.0
- The Swift Shadow 1927 · ★ 10.0
- The Boy Rider 1927 · ★ 9.0
- Crooks Can't Win 1928 · ★ 10.0
- The One Man Dog 1929 · ★ 9.0
- The Vagabond Cub 1929
Movies directed by Sam Nelson
- Mandrake the Magician 1939 · ★ 5.9
- Sagebrush Law 1943 · ★ 6.7
- Rio Grande 1938 · ★ 4.7
- Cattle Raiders 1938 · ★ 5.3
- Overland with Kit Carson 1939 · ★ 5.2
- Outlaws of the Prairie 1937 · ★ 4.0
- Prairie Schooners 1940 · ★ 8.0
- Outlaws of the Panhandle 1941 · ★ 7.5
- The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok 1938 · ★ 9.0
- Konga, the Wild Stallion 1939 · ★ 10.0
- Bullets for Rustlers 1940 · ★ 7.0
- The Man from Sundown 1939 · ★ 10.0
- West of the Santa Fe 1938 · ★ 7.0
- The Stranger from Texas 1939 · ★ 8.0
- Pioneers of the Frontier 1940 · ★ 9.0
- Western Caravans 1939 · ★ 7.0
- Texas Stampede 1939 · ★ 7.0
- Parents on Trial 1939 · ★ 8.0
- North of the Yukon 1939 · ★ 7.0
- The Avenging Rider 1943 · ★ 10.0
- Mandrake the Magician 1940 · ★ 5.0
- Colorado Trail 1938 · ★ 8.0
- The Thundering West 1939 · ★ 8.0
- Law of the Plains 1938 · ★ 8.0
- South of Arizona 1938 · ★ 7.0
- West of Cheyenne 1938 · ★ 7.0