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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The Lady from Shanghai
1947 · as Captain of Yacht Circe (uncredited)

Soldiers and Women
1930 · as Pvt. Delehanty

Breed of Courage
1927 · as Alan Haliday

Crooks Can't Win
1928 · as Danny Malone

The Vagabond Cub
1929 · as Bob McDonald

The Circus Kid
1928 · as Tad

The One Man Dog
1929 · as Larry

The Little Savage
1929 · as Norton

The Swift Shadow
1927 · as Jim

The Boy Rider
1927 · as Terry McNeil