Sam Nelson
Directing
Born: 1896-05-11 · Whttier, California, USA
Died: 1963-05-01
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 appe
🎬 Movies (30)
What's Love
1987
Special Effects
Experiment in Terror
1962
Assistant Director
A Raisin in the Sun
1961
Assistant Director
By Love Possessed
1961
Assistant Director
Comanche Station
1960
Assistant Director
The Wackiest Ship in the Army
1960
Assistant Director
Let No Man Write My Epitaph
1960
Assistant Director
Some Like It Hot
1959
Assistant Director
Good Day for a Hanging
1959
Assistant Director
The Last Hurrah
1958
Assistant Director
Cowboy
1958
Assistant Director
Fifi Blows Her Top
1958
Assistant Director
The Tall T
1957
Assistant Director
Decision at Sundown
1957
Assistant Director
Rusty Romeos
1957
Assistant Director
3:10 to Yuma
1957
Assistant Director
The Man Who Turned to Stone
1957
Assistant Director
Don't Knock The Rock
1956
Assistant Director
The White Squaw
1956
Assistant Director
Reprisal!
1956
Assistant Director
The Violent Men
1955
Assistant Director
The Last Frontier
1955
Assistant Director
My Sister Eileen
1955
Assistant Director
Three Hours to Kill
1954
Assistant Director
Affair in Trinidad
1952
Assistant Director
Santa Fe
1951
Assistant Director
No Sad Songs for Me
1950
Assistant Director
The Doolins of Oklahoma
1949
Assistant Director
All the King's Men
1949
Assistant Director
Tell It to the Judge
1949
Assistant Director