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

Prairie Schooners

Sagebrush Law

Outlaws of the Panhandle

Mandrake the Magician

Mandrake the Magician

Rio Grande

Cattle Raiders

Outlaws of the Prairie

Overland with Kit Carson

The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok

Konga, the Wild Stallion

Bullets for Rustlers

The Man from Sundown

West of the Santa Fe

The Stranger from Texas

Pioneers of the Frontier

Western Caravans

Texas Stampede

Parents on Trial

North of the Yukon

The Avenging Rider

Colorado Trail

The Thundering West

Law of the Plains

South of Arizona

West of Cheyenne