Director

Lesley Selander

Directing

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Directed credits

151

Prolific

Very extensive directing filmography.

TMDB popularity

1.1

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Directed movies: 144Directed series: 7All crew credits: 151

TMDB ID: 130325

IMDb ID: nm0782947

Known for: Directing

Born: May 26, 1900

Died: December 5, 1979

Age: 79

Place of birth: Los Angeles, California, USA

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1925 - 1968

Years active: 44

Average TMDB rating: 6.39

Wikidata: Q1804597

Frequent jobs

Director (141)Assistant Director (9)Director of Photography (1)

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Biography

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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