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 appeared in over a dozen films in small roles.
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Filmography
Acting Credits (10)
The Lady from Shanghai
Captain of Yacht Circe (uncredited)
1947
Soldiers and Women
Pvt. Delehanty
1930
The Little Savage
Norton
1929
The One Man Dog
Larry
1929
The Vagabond Cub
Bob McDonald
1929
Directing Credits (84)
Experiment in Terror
Assistant Director
1962
By Love Possessed
Assistant Director
1961
A Raisin in the Sun
Assistant Director
1961
The Wackiest Ship in the Army
Assistant Director
1960
Let No Man Write My Epitaph
Assistant Director
1960
