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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,...

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 Vagabond Cub

as Bob McDonald

Crooks Can't Win

as Danny Malone

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

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