Sam Nelson

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

Sam Nelson (Whittier, Califòrnia, 11 de maig de 1896 - Hollywood, Califòrnia, 1 de maig de 1963) va ser un actor i director de cinema estatunidenc que va treballar des del final del cinema mut fins a principis dels anys seixanta. Tot i que la major part del seu treball cinematogràfic va ser en el paper d'assistent de direcció, va dirigir més de 20 pel·lícules durant les dècades de 1930 i 1940, totes elles westerns.