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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. Before that, Selander was assistant director on films such as The Cat and the Fiddle (1934), A Night at the Opera (1935), and ...
- 26 May 1900, Los Angeles, California
- Film director
- 5 December 1979 (aged 79), Los Alamitos, California
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.
- Lesley Selander
- December 5, 1979
- May 26, 1900
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. He soon managed to work his way into the production end of the business and secured employment as a camera operator, then an assistant director, with several side trips as a director of two-reel...
- 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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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"...
I Was An American Spy is a 1951 American war drama film dramatizing the true story of Claire Phillips, an American expat [1] who spied on the Japanese during World War II and was captured, tortured, and sentenced to death before being rescued. The film, produced by Allied Artists and directed by Lesley Selander, starred Ann Dvorak in the title ...
Biography by AllMovie [+] A studio lab technician in his teens, California native Lesley Selander worked his way up to cameraman and then assistant director in the '20s. Until 1936, his solo directing credits consisted of modest 2-reel comedies. Selander received his first feature film directorial break through the kindness of western star Buck ...
