Lesley Selander
TV Director
1900 – 1979
Who was Lesley Selander?
Lesley Selander 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, A Night at the Opera, and Fritz Lang's Fury.
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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- Born
- May 26, 1900
Los Angeles - Also known as
- Lester Selander
- R. Lesley Selander
- Leslie Selander
- Les Selander
- R.L. Selander
- R. Leslie Selander
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Died
- Dec 5, 1979
Los Alamitos
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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