Sam Nelson
Director
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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As Director
Filmography
The Lady from Shanghai
as Captain of Yacht Circe (uncredited) 1947
Soldiers and Women
as Pvt. Delehanty 1930
Breed of Courage
as Alan Haliday 1927
The Vagabond Cub
as Bob McDonald 1929
The Little Savage
as Norton 1929
The Circus Kid
as Tad 1928
The Swift Shadow
as Jim 1927
The Boy Rider
as Terry McNeil 1927