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Sam Nelson is a Actor, Director, Producer, Assistant Director and Second Unit American born on 11 may 1896

Sam Nelson

Sam Nelson
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Nationality USA
Birth 11 may 1896
Death 1 may 1963 (at 66 years)

Sam Nelson est un réalisateur américain né le 11 mai 1896 à Whittier, Californie, et mort le 1er mai 1963 à Hollywood.
Il a réalisé une vingtaine de westerns et a officié en tant qu'assistant réalisateur sur plus de 100 films.

Best films

Some Like It Hot (1959)
(Assistant Director)
All the King's Men (1949)
(Director)
3:10 to Yuma (1957)
(Assistant Director)

Usually with

Jean Louis
Jean Louis
(12 films)
Morris Stoloff
Morris Stoloff
(10 films)
Arthur Morton
Arthur Morton
(9 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Sam Nelson (54 films)

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Actor

The Lady from Shanghai, 1h27
Directed by Orson Welles
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Actors Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles, Everett Sloane, Errol Flynn, Glenn Anders, Ted de Corsia
Roles Captain of Yacht Circe (uncredited)
Rating74% 3.748693.748693.748693.748693.74869
Irish sailor Michael O'Hara (Orson Welles) meets the beautiful blonde Elsa (Rita Hayworth) as she rides a horse-drawn coach in Central Park. Three hooligans waylay the coach. Michael rescues Elsa and escorts her home. Michael reveals he is a seaman and learns Elsa and her husband, disabled criminal defense attorney Arthur Bannister (Everett Sloane), are newly arrived in New York City from Shanghai. They are on their way to San Francisco via the Panama Canal. Michael, attracted to Elsa despite misgivings, agrees to sign on as an able seaman aboard Bannister's yacht.

Director

All the King's Men, 1h49
Directed by Robert Rossen, Don Siegel, Sam Nelson
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Political films
Actors Broderick Crawford, John Ireland, Joanne Dru, John Derek, Mercedes McCambridge, Ralph Dumke
Rating73% 3.696413.696413.696413.696413.69641
The story of the rise of politician Willie Stark (Broderick Crawford) from a rural county seat to the governor's mansion is depicted in the film. He goes into politics, railing against the corruptly run county government, but loses his race for county treasurer, in the face of unfair obstacles placed by the local machine. Stark teaches himself law, and as a lawyer, continues to fight the local establishment, championing the local people and gaining popularity. He eventually rises to become a candidate for governor, narrowly losing his first race, then winning on his second attempt. Along the way he loses his innocence and becomes as corrupt as the politicians he once fought against. When his son becomes paralyzed following a drunk driving accident that kills a female passenger, Stark's world starts to unravel and he discovers that not everyone can be bought off.
The Avenging Rider
Directed by Sam Nelson
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Tim Holt, Cliff Edwards, Karl Hackett, Earle Hodgins, Kenne Duncan, Bud Osborne
Rating60% 3.0486053.0486053.0486053.0486053.048605
A cowboy tries to clear himself of murder.
Mandrake the Magician
Directed by Sam Nelson
Origin USA
Genres Fantasy, Action, Crime
Themes Films about magic and magicians
Actors Warren Hull, Al Kikume, Rex Downing, Edward Earle, Kenneth MacDonald, Don Beddoe
Rating62% 3.141333.141333.141333.141333.14133
Mandrake and his assistant Lothar are working the cruise lines and make the acquaintance of Professor Houston who has developed a radium energy machine, which is much coveted by a masked Crime Lord known as "The Wasp". The Wasp unleashes his army of accomplices in waves to steal the invention by any means necessary. Mandrake and his allies finally catch up to "The Wasp" and discover the Crime Lord is actually a scientist who posed as a close friend of Houston's.
Overland with Kit Carson
Directed by Sam Nelson
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Wild Bill Elliott, Iris Meredith, Richard Fiske, Trevor Bardette, LeRoy Mason, Francis Sayles
Rating68% 3.4366953.4366953.4366953.4366953.436695
Overland with Kit Carson is constructed upon a seemingly simple premise. Old Western settlers are being driven off their homesteads and ranches by a combination of Indian assaults and harassing attacks by bands of mysterious outlaws. Then, the US government sends out famed Indian scout Kit Carson and army officer David Brent to investigate the facts, and Carson discovers that a mysterious villain known only as Pegleg, who enjoys planning his misdeeds as much as carrying them out, controls an outlaw gang called the Black Raiders and is using them and the Indians to drive out the settlers so he can establish his own empire. By 1939, film-goers knew exactly what to expect from a western serial: a clean-cut, self-assured hero facing down a good-for-nothing villain in a tireless pursuit, the menacing Indians and gun-toting bad guys, the moral soldier and the pretty girl, a reckless boy, lots of action, the climactic final gunfight, and not much in the way of thematic depth.
The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
Directed by Mack V. Wright, Sam Nelson
Origin USA
Genres Action, Western
Actors Monte Blue, Wild Bill Elliott, Frankie Darro, Dickie Jones, Sammy McKim, Kermit Maynard
Rating66% 3.342683.342683.342683.342683.34268
Wild Bill Hickok, U.S. Marshal in Abilene, Kansas, is sent to stop the mysterious "Phantom Riders" from disrupting the cattle drives across the Chisholm Trail and construction of a new railroad.

Producer

The Menace
The Menace (1932)
, 1h4
Directed by Roy William Neill
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors H. B. Warner, Walter Byron, Bette Davis, Oscar Apfel, Natalie Moorhead, William B. Davidson
Roles Producer
Rating63% 3.1954653.1954653.1954653.1954653.195465
Englishman Ronald Quayle was accused of murdering his father and, based on testimony offered by his stepmother Caroline, was found guilty and imprisoned. Managing to escape, he fled to the United States and found work in an oil field, where an explosion scarred his face. After undergoing plastic surgery, he returns home under the alias Robert Crockett, determined to prove Caroline and her lover Jack Utterson really killed his father.

Director

Experiment in Terror, 2h3
Directed by Blake Edwards
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Noir, Crime
Actors Glenn Ford, Lee Remick, Stefanie Powers, Ross Martin, Ned Glass, Clifton James
Roles Assistant Director
Rating72% 3.6466953.6466953.6466953.6466953.646695
A psychotic killer, Garland "Red" Lynch, uses a campaign of terror to force San Francisco bank teller Kelly Sherwood to steal $100,000 from the bank for him. Despite his threat to kill her or her teenaged sister Toby if she goes to the police, Sherwood contacts the San Francisco office of the FBI, where agent John Ripley takes charge of the case.
By Love Possessed, 1h55
Directed by John Sturges
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about sexuality
Actors Lana Turner, Efrem Zimbalist II, Jason Robards, George Hamilton, Susan Kohner, Thomas Mitchell
Roles Assistant Director
Rating54% 2.705952.705952.705952.705952.70595
In a Massachusetts law firm, Arthur Winner, Julius Penrose and Noah Tuttle are equal partners. Each has an ongoing problem in his personal life.
A Raisin in the Sun, 2h8
Directed by Daniel Petrie
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about families, Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee, Claudia McNeil, Diana Sands, Ivan Dixon, John Fiedler
Roles Assistant Director
Rating79% 3.995673.995673.995673.995673.99567
Au cours des années 1950, une famille pauvre afro-américaine, les Younger, vit dans un petit appartement d'un quartier sud de Chicago. La mère, Lena (veuve), reçoit un jour un chèque de 10 000 dollars, montant d'une assurance-vie que son époux avait contractée. Chacun fait alors des projets : la mère souhaite acquérir une maison dans un quartier résidentiel ; son fils, Walter Lee, voudrait monter un commerce d'alcool ; l'épouse de ce dernier, Ruth, y voit l'occasion de vivre plus décemment et d'élever convenablement leur fils ; Beneatha, la jeune sœur de Walter Lee, pourrait ainsi entamer des études de médecine…
Comanche Station, 1h14
Directed by Randolph Scott, Budd Boetticher
Origin USA
Genres Action, Western
Actors Randolph Scott, Nancy Gates, Claude Akins, Skip Homeier, Richard Rust, Rand Brooks
Roles Assistant Director
Rating69% 3.4937353.4937353.4937353.4937353.493735
Jefferson Cody (Randolph Scott), whose wife was captured by Comanches, frees another man's wife and is taking her home. Three outlaws, led by the charming but malevolent Ben Lane (Claude Akins), reveal that the woman's husband has offered a $5,000 reward, making the woman, Mrs. Lowe (Nancy Gates), suspicious of Cody's motives in coming to her rescue.