Sam Nelson


Sam Nelson was an American film director who worked from the end of the Silent film#Silent [film era|silent era] through the early 1960s. While most of his film work was in the assistant director role, he did direct over twenty films during the 1930s and 1940s, all of which were Westerns. As an assistant director, he worked on such productions 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 acting roles.

Filmography

Director

Outlaws of the Prairie Cattle Raiders Law of the Plains West of Cheyenne The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok South of Arizona The Colorado Trail West of the Santa Fe Rio Grande Law of the Plains North of the Yukon Mandrake the Magician Western Caravans The Man from Sundown Overland with Kit Carson Konga, the Wild Stallion Parents on Trial The Stranger from Texas The Thundering West Pioneers of the Frontier Bullets for Rustlers Prairie Schooners Outlaws of the Panhandle Sagebrush Law

Assistant director

The Midnight Flyer Red Hot Hoofs Her Father Said No Breed of the Sunsets Dog Law The Fightin' Redhead Lightning Speed The Little Buckaroo Fury of the Wild Mexicali Rose The Song of Love Wall Street The Yellowback The Melody Man Call of the West Guilty? Personality Rain or Shine A Royal Romance Way Back Home Dirigible The Flood Arizona Washington Merry-Go-Round The Night Club Lady No More Orchids The Last Man Virtue As the Devil Commands The Fighting Code Thrill Hunter Ann Carver's Profession When Strangers Marry More Than a Secretary Pennies From Heaven They Met in a Taxi The Old Wyoming Trail Life Begins with Love Let's Get Married Murder in Greenwich Village Two Fisted Sheriff Venus Makes Trouble Girls Can Play The Game That Kills Women in Prison The Thundering West Texas Stampede Only Angels Have Wings Arizona International Lady The Corsican Brothers Bandit Ranger Friendly Enemies A Gentleman After Dark Fighting Frontier Jack London Lady of Burlesque The North Star The Outlaw The Hairy Ape Guest in the House Take It Big And Then There Were None Delightfully Dangerous Getting Gertie's Garter Strange Holiday A Walk in the Sun Gallant Journey I've Always Loved You The Return of Monte Cristo The Walls Came Tumbling Down It Had to Be You I Surrender Dear The Lady from Shanghai The Return of October Triple Threat The Doolins of Oklahoma Tell It to the Judge The Walking Hills All the King's Men Cargo to Capetown No Sad Songs for Me The Brave Bulls The Family Secret My True Story Santa Fe Two of a Kind Affair in Trinidad The Four Poster Flame of Calcutta The Member of the Wedding Conquest of Cochise Miss Sadie Thompson The Iron Glove Jesse James vs. the Daltons Three Hours to Kill They Rode West My Sister Eileen The Violent Men Uranium Boom You Can't Run Away from It The White Squaw The Last Frontier Reprisal! Don't Knock the Rock Decision at Sundown The Man Who Turned to Stone The Tall T 3:10 to Yuma Cowboy The Last Hurrah Gunman's Walk Good Day for a Hanging The Flying Fontaines Some Like It Hot Let No Man Write My Epitaph Comanche Station By Love Possessed A Raisin in the Sun The Wackiest Ship in the Army Don't Knock the Twist The Wild Westerners Sail a Crooked Ship Experiment in Terror 13 Frightened Girls