Sam Nelson
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,...
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,...
Known For
Some Like It Hot
Assistant Director
3:10 to Yuma
Assistant Director
And Then There Were None
Assistant Director
Cast Credits
The Lady from Shanghai
as Captain of Yacht Circe (uncredited)
Soldiers and Women
as Pvt. Delehanty
The Little Savage
as Norton
The One Man Dog
as Larry
The Vagabond Cub
as Bob McDonald
The Circus Kid
as Tad
Crooks Can't Win
as Danny Malone
The Swift Shadow
as Jim
The Boy Rider
as Terry McNeil
Breed of Courage
as Alan Haliday
Crew Credits
What's Love
Special Effects
Experiment in Terror
Assistant Director
By Love Possessed
Assistant Director
A Raisin in the Sun
Assistant Director
The Wackiest Ship in the Army
Assistant Director
Let No Man Write My Epitaph
Assistant Director
Comanche Station
Assistant Director
Some Like It Hot
Assistant Director
Good Day for a Hanging
Assistant Director
The Last Hurrah
Assistant Director
Fifi Blows Her Top
Assistant Director
Cowboy
Assistant Director
Decision at Sundown
Assistant Director
Rusty Romeos
Assistant Director
3:10 to Yuma
Assistant Director
The Tall T
Assistant Director
The Man Who Turned to Stone
Assistant Director
Don't Knock The Rock
Assistant Director
Reprisal!
Assistant Director
The White Squaw
Assistant Director
The Last Frontier
Assistant Director
My Sister Eileen
Assistant Director
The Violent Men
Assistant Director
Three Hours to Kill
Assistant Director
Affair in Trinidad
Assistant Director
Santa Fe
Assistant Director
No Sad Songs for Me
Assistant Director
Tell It to the Judge
Assistant Director
All the King's Men
Assistant Director
The Doolins of Oklahoma
Assistant Director