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Lesley Selander
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 featu…
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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.
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1968
Arizona Bushwhackers
Movie Director
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1967
Fort Utah
Movie Director
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1966
The Texican
Movie Director
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1965
Town Tamer
Movie Director
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1965
Fort Courageous
Movie Director
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1965
War Party
Movie Director
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1965
Convict Stage
Movie Director
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1964
Daniel Boone
TV show Director
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1960
The Tall Man
TV show Director
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1960
Overland Trail
TV show Director
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1959
Laramie
TV show Director
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1958
Cannonball
TV show Director
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1958
The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold
Movie Director
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1957
The Wayward Girl
Movie Director
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1957
Taming Sutton’s Gal
Movie Director
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1957
Outlaw's Son
Movie Director
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1957
Revolt at Fort Laramie
Movie Director
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1957
Tomahawk Trail
Movie Director
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1956
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
TV show Director
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1956
Quincannon, Frontier Scout
Movie Director
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1956
The Broken Star
Movie Director
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1955
Desert Sands
Movie Director
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1955
Fury
Movie Director
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1955
Fort Yuma
Movie Director
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1955
Tall Man Riding
Movie Director
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1955
Shotgun
Movie Director
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1954
Lassie
TV show Director
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1954
Return from the Sea
Movie Director
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1954
The Yellow Tomahawk
Movie Director
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1954
Arrow In The Dust
Movie Director
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1954
Dragonfly Squadron
Movie Director
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1953
The Royal African Rifles
Movie Director
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1953
Fighter Attack
Movie Director
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1953
Fort Algiers
Movie Director
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1953
War Paint
Movie Director
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1953
Cow Country
Movie Director
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1953
Fort Vengeance
Movie Director
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1952
The Raiders
Movie Director
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1952
Flat Top
Movie Director
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1952
Battle Zone
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