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. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Filmography32 titles

Some Like It Hot

A Raisin in the Sun

The Lady from Shanghai

3:10 to Yuma

The Last Hurrah

Pennies from Heaven

Experiment in Terror

The Tall T

All the King's Men

And Then There Were None

The Corsican Brothers

Santa Fe

The Doolins of Oklahoma

Comanche Station

The Miracle Woman

My Sister Eileen

Tell It to the Judge

Cowboy

Good Day for a Hanging

The Violent Men

Decision at Sundown

Affair in Trinidad

The Last Frontier

Jack London

The Wackiest Ship in the Army

A Walk in the Sun

Mandrake the Magician

Mexicali Rose

The Outlaw

By Love Possessed

Three Hours to Kill

Guest in the House