Lesley Selander
Directing · Born 1900-05-26 · age 79 at death · Los Angeles, California, USA
From Wikipedia. Lesley Selander (May 26, 1900 – December 5, 1979) was an American film director of Westerns and science fiction movies. His career as director, spanning 127 feature films and dozens of TV episodes, lasted from 1936 to 1968. Before that, Selander was assistant director on films such as The Cat and the Fiddle (1934), A Night at the Opera (1935), and Fritz Lang's Fury (1936). To this day, Selander remains one of the most prolific directors of feature Westerns in cinema history, having taken the helm for 107 Westerns between his first directorial feature in 1936 and 1967. In 1956, he was nominated for the Directors Guild of America award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Television, for his work directing a 1954 episode of Lassie.
Titles
A Night at the Opera
The Thin Man
Fury
Lassie
Flight to Mars
Daniel Boone
Shotgun
Fort Yuma
Revolt at Fort Laramie
The Texican
Laramie
The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold
Tall Man Riding
Panhandle
The Garden Murder Case
The Vampire's Ghost
Flat Top
The Catman of Paris
War Paint
Blackmail
Fort Algiers
Belle Starr's Daughter
Town Tamer
Tomahawk Trail
Arrow In The Dust
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Fort Utah
Wolf Blood
Fort Courageous
I Was an American Spy
The Raiders
Colt Comrades
Cow Country
The Broken Star
The Tall Man
Three Men from Texas
The Yellow Tomahawk
Fort Vengeance
Cassidy of Bar 20
The Fatal Witness
Quincannon, Frontier Scout
Desert Sands
Dragonfly Squadron
Convict Stage
Lumberjack
Moonlight Murder
Arizona Bushwhackers
What Every Woman Knows
Overland Telegraph
Gunplay
Saddle Legion
Heritage of the Desert
Storm Over Wyoming
Red River Robin Hood
Outlaw's Son
Cavalry Scout
Brothers in the Saddle
Black Aces
Bar 20 Justice
Dakota Lil