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, 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
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- 1896-05-11 · Whttier, California, USA
- Died
- 1963-05-01
Known for
- Some Like It Hot (1959) — Assistant Director
- The Lady from Shanghai (1947) — Captain of Yacht Circe (uncredited)
- 3:10 to Yuma (1957) — Assistant Director
- And Then There Were None (1945) — Assistant Director
- All the King's Men (1949) — Assistant Director
- The Tall T (1957) — Assistant Director
- A Raisin in the Sun (1961) — Assistant Director
- Experiment in Terror (1962) — Assistant Director
- Comanche Station (1960) — Assistant Director
- The Outlaw (1943) — Assistant Director
- Decision at Sundown (1957) — Assistant Director
- Cowboy (1958) — Assistant Director
- The Last Hurrah (1958) — Assistant Director
- A Walk in the Sun (1945) — Assistant Director
- Affair in Trinidad (1952) — Assistant Director
- The Violent Men (1955) — Assistant Director