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Lesley Selander (May 26, 1900 – December 5, 1979) was an American film director of Westerns and adventure movies. His career as director, spanning 127 feature films and dozens of TV episodes, lasted from 1936 to 1968.
Lesley Selander. Director: The Pilgrim Lady. Lesley Selander's film career, which lasted more than 40 years, started in the early 1920s as a teenager when he got a job at a studio as a lab technician.
Lesley Selander. Director: Traffic in Crime. Lesley Selander's film career, which lasted more than 40 years, started in the early 1920s as a teenager when he got a job at a studio as a lab technician.
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.
Nov 3, 2019 · In 1948, the year of Jeff Arnold’s birth but a great Western vintage even without that highly significant event, Selander directed two fun pictures, Panhandle for Allied Artists and Belle Starr’s Daughter at Fox.
Jul 18, 2021 · By the dawn of the great decade of the Western movie, the 1950s, Selander was already one of the most experienced hands in the business, and he would go on to become one of the most prolific. Altogether he worked on 112 features and many TV shows in the genre.
At the behest of pal Buck Jones, Selander was promoted to feature director in 1936, helming a number of the cowboy star's latter oaters, in addition to a brace of Tim Holt and Hopalong Cassiday vehicles. He concococted numerous low budget actioners (mainly westerns) and TV episodes through the 1960s.