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Born May 11, 1896 in Whttier, California, USA
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. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

What's Love

Experiment in Terror

By Love Possessed

A Raisin in the Sun

The Wackiest Ship in the Army

Let No Man Write My Epitaph

Comanche Station

Some Like It Hot

Good Day for a Hanging

The Last Hurrah

Fifi Blows Her Top

Cowboy

Decision at Sundown

Rusty Romeos

3:10 to Yuma

The Tall T

The Man Who Turned to Stone

Don't Knock The Rock

Reprisal!

The White Squaw

The Last Frontier

My Sister Eileen

The Violent Men

Three Hours to Kill

Affair in Trinidad

Santa Fe

No Sad Songs for Me

Tell It to the Judge

All the King's Men

The Doolins of Oklahoma

The Walking Hills

The Return of October

The Lady from Shanghai
Captain of Yacht Circe (uncredited)

It Had to Be You

Gallant Journey

A Walk in the Sun

And Then There Were None

Guest in the House

Jack London

The Avenging Rider

Sagebrush Law

The Outlaw

Bandit Ranger

The Corsican Brothers

Outlaws of the Panhandle

Prairie Schooners

Bullets for Rustlers

Pioneers of the Frontier

Mandrake the Magician

The Stranger from Texas

Parents on Trial

Konga, the Wild Stallion

Overland with Kit Carson

The Man from Sundown

Western Caravans

Mandrake the Magician

North of the Yukon

Texas Stampede

The Thundering West

Rio Grande

West of the Santa Fe

Colorado Trail

South of Arizona

The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok

West of Cheyenne

Law of the Plains

Cattle Raiders

Outlaws of the Prairie

Pennies from Heaven

Ann Carver's Profession

No More Orchids

Virtue

Washington Merry-Go-Round

The Last Man

The Menace

Way Back Home

The Miracle Woman

Rain or Shine

Soldiers and Women
Pvt. Delehanty

Guilty?

Personality

Mexicali Rose

Song of Love

The Yellowback

The Circus Kid
Tad

The Fightin' Redhead

Crooks Can't Win
Danny Malone

Driftin' Sands

The Swift Shadow
Jim

Her Father Said No

The Midnight Flyer