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Sam Nelson
Actor, Director, Producer, Additional Credits
Born May 11, 1896Died May 1, 1963 (66 years)
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
Sam Nelson Filmography
| 1947 | The Lady from Shanghai · as Captain Of Yacht Circe (uncredited) |
| 1929 | Rio Rita · as Mcginn |
| 1932 |
| 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 | Good Day for a Hanging · as Assistant Director |
| 1959 | Some Like It Hot · as Assistant Director |
| 1958 | The Last Hurrah · as Assistant Director |
| 1958 | Cowboy · as Assistant Director |
| 1957 | Decision at Sundown · 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 Outlaw · as Assistant Director |
| 1941 | The Corsican Brothers · as Assistant 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 |