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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 (1900-1979) was a prolific director of B westerns, thrillers and adventure films. He also worked as a camera operator, assistant director and cinematographer in the early days of Hollywood.
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- Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Los Alamitos, California, USA
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.
- May 26, 1900
- December 5, 1979
Lesley Selander was an American film director of Westerns and science fiction movies from 1936 to 1968. He directed 107 Westerns, 23 episodes of Lassie, and other TV shows and films, such as The Thin Man, Fury, and Flight To Mars.
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Lesley Selander 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 1936-68. 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).
Biography. Began his career as a lab technician after high school and moved up through the ranks before emerging as an assistant director in 1924, confecting several comedy shorts before enlistining with MGM, where he assisted on such productions as "The Thin Man" (1934) , and "A Night At the Opera" (1935).
The film, produced by Allied Artists and directed by Lesley Selander, starred Ann Dvorak in the title role.
