Name
Sam Nelson
Known For
Directing
Birthday
1896-05-11
Deathday
1963-05-01 (67 years old)
Place of Birth
Whttier, California, USA
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
8.1
In Prohibition-era Chicago, musicians Joe and Jerry witness a mob hit, and flee the state ...
7.277
Dan Evans, a small time farmer, is hired to escort Ben Wade, a dangerous outlaw, to Yuma. ...
7
A man of humble beginnings and honest intentions rises to power by nefarious means. Along ...
7
Ten strangers are summoned to a remote island and while they are waiting for the mysteriou...
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Pat Brennan's luck is about to go from bad to worse; after gambling his horse away, he get...
6.1
Three trappers become scouts for a cavalry captain who loses his fort to a hated colonel....
6.5
Director William A. Wellman adds another to his long line of salutes-to-aviation films in ...
6.3
A man and his partner arrive at a small Western town to kill its most powerful man because...
5.4
Newly appointed sheriff Pat Garrett is pleased when his old friend Doc Holliday arrives in...
- 1927 Breed of Courage as Alan Haliday
- 1929 The Vagabond Cub as Bob McDonald
- 1929 The Little Savage as Norton
- 1930 Soldiers and Women as Pvt. Delehanty
- 1928 The Circus Kid as Tad
- 1947 The Lady from Shanghai as Captain of Yacht Circe (uncredited)
- 1927 The Swift Shadow as Jim
- 1927 The Boy Rider as Terry McNeil
- 1928 Crooks Can't Win as Danny Malone
- 1929 The One Man Dog as Larry
