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Lesley Selander

Lesley Selander

Directing • 1900-05-26 • 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 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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Lassie6.3

Lassie

1954

Laramie6.7

Laramie

1959

A Night at the Opera7.4

A Night at the Opera

1935

The Thin Man7.5

The Thin Man

1934

Fury7.5

Fury

1936

Flight to Mars5.2

Flight to Mars

1951

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