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Lesley Selander (1900–1979)

Director | Second Unit Director or Assistant Director | Miscellaneous Crew

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... See full bio »

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in Los Angeles, California, USA

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(age 79) in Los Alamitos, California, USA
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1968 Arizona Bushwhackers
 
1967 Fort Utah
 
1966 Daniel Boone (TV series)
– When a King Is a Pawn (1966)
 
1966 The Texican
 
1965 Town Tamer
 
1965 Fort Courageous
 
1965 War Party
 
1965 Convict Stage
 
1959-1963 Laramie (TV series)
– The Last Battleground (1963)
– The Sometime Gambler (1963)
– The Violent Ones (1963)
– The Renegade Brand (1963)
– No Place to Run (1963)
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1962 Frontier Circus (TV series)
– Calamity Circus (1962)
 
1961-1962 The Tall Man (TV series)
– The Hunt (1962)
– Substitute Sheriff (1962)
– Fool's Play (1961)
– The Female Artillery (1961)
– Full Payment (1961)
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1960 Overland Trail (TV series)
– Escort Detail (1960)
 
1958-1959 Cannonball (TV series)
– Racket (1959)
– Ginny (1959)
– Fallout (1959)
– Shock (1959)
– The Iron Lung (1958)
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1955-1959 Lassie (TV series)
– The Big Cat (1959)
– Fish out of Water (1958) (some episodes)
– The Crash (1958)
– The Owl (1958)
– The Teacher (1958)
See all 54 episodes »
 
1958 The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold
 
1957-1958 Fury (TV series)
– The Baby Sitters (1958)
– The Break-Up (1958)
– Bike Road-eo (1957)
– The Tornado (1957)
 
1957 The Wayward Girl
 
1957 Taming Sutton's Gal
 
1957 Outlaw's Son
 
1957 Revolt at Fort Laramie
 
1957 Tomahawk Trail
 
1956 Zane Grey Theater (TV series)
– Star Over Texas (1956)
 
1956 Quincannon, Frontier Scout
 
1956 The Broken Star
 
1955 Desert Sands
 
1955 Fort Yuma
 
1955 Tall Man Riding
 
1955 Shotgun
 
1954 Return from the Sea
 
1954 The Yellow Tomahawk
 
1954 Arrow in the Dust
 
1954 Dragonfly Squadron
 
1953 Fighter Attack
 
1953 The Royal African Rifles
 
1953 War Paint
 
1953 Fort Algiers
 
1953 Cow Country
 
1953 Fort Vengeance
 
1952 Cowboy G-Men (TV series)
– Salted Mines (1952)
– Koniackers (1952)
 
1952 The Raiders
 
1952 Flat Top
 
1952 Battle Zone
 
1952 Desert Passage
 
1952 Road Agent
 
1952 Trail Guide
 
1952 Fort Osage
 
1951 Overland Telegraph
 
1951 Flight to Mars
 
1951 Pistol Harvest
 
1951 The Highwayman
 
1951 Gunplay
 
1951 Cavalry Scout
 
1951 I Was an American Spy
 
1951 Saddle Legion
 
1951 Law of the Badlands
 
1950 Short Grass
 
1950 The Kangaroo Kid
 
1950 Rio Grande Patrol
 
1950 Rider from Tucson
 
1950 Storm Over Wyoming
 
1950 Dakota Lil
 
1950 Riders of the Range
 
1949 The Mysterious Desperado
 
1949 Masked Raiders
 
1949 Stampede
 
1949 The Sky Dragon
 
1949 Rustlers
 
1949 Brothers in the Saddle
 
1948 Indian Agent
 
1948 Strike It Rich
 
1948 Belle Starr's Daughter
 
1948 Guns of Hate
 
1948 Panhandle
 
1947 The Red Stallion
 
1947 Blackmail
 
1947 Robin Hood of Texas
 
1947 Saddle Pals
 
1947 Last Frontier Uprising
 
1947 The Pilgrim Lady
 
1946 Out California Way
 
1946 Night Train to Memphis
 
1946 Traffic in Crime (as Les Selander)
 
1946 Passkey to Danger
 
1946 The Catman of Paris
 
1945 The Fatal Witness
 
1945 Jungle Raiders
 
1945 Phantom of the Plains
 
1945 Trail of Kit Carson
 
1945 Three's a Crowd
 
1945 The Vampire's Ghost
 
1945 Great Stagecoach Robbery
 
1944 Sheriff of Las Vegas
 
1944 Firebrands of Arizona
 
1944 Sheriff of Sundown
 
1944 Cheyenne Wildcat
 
1944 Stagecoach to Monterey
 
1944 Bordertown Trail
 
1944 Call of the Rockies
 
1944 Forty Thieves
 
1944 Lumberjack
 
1943 Riders of the Deadline
 
1943 Bar 20
 
1943 Colt Comrades
 
1943 Buckskin Empire
 
1943 Border Patrol
 
1942 Lost Canyon
 
1942 Red River Robin Hood
 
1942 Undercover Man
 
1942 Bandit Ranger
 
1942 Thundering Hoofs
 
1941 Stick to Your Guns
 
1941 Riders of the Timberline
 
1941 Wide Open Town
 
1941 Pirates on Horseback
 
1941 The Roundup
 
1941 Doomed Caravan
 
1940 Three Men from Texas
 
1940 Cherokee Strip
 
1940 Knights of the Range
 
1940 Stagecoach War
 
1940 Hidden Gold
 
1940 The Light of Western Stars
 
1940 Santa Fe Marshal
 
1939 Range War
 
1939 Renegade Trail
 
1939 Heritage of the Desert
 
1939 Silver on the Sage
 
1939 Sunset Trail
 
1938 The Frontiersmen
 
1938 The Mysterious Rider
 
1938 Pride of the West
 
1938 Bar 20 Justice
 
1938 Heart of Arizona
 
1938 Cassidy of Bar 20
 
1938 Partners of the Plains
 
1937 The Barrier
 
1937 Black Aces (uncredited)
 
1937 Hopalong Rides Again
 
1937 Smoke Tree Range
 
1937 Left-Handed Law
 
1937 Sandflow
 
1936 Empty Saddles
 
1936 The Boss Rider of Gun Creek
 
1936 Ride 'Em Cowboy (as Leslie Selander)
 
1936 Fury (assistant director - uncredited)
 
1936 Moonlight Murder (assistant director - uncredited)
 
1936 Ceiling Zero (assistant director - uncredited)
 
1936 The Garden Murder Case (assistant director - uncredited)
 
1935 A Night at the Opera (assistant director - uncredited)
 
1934 What Every Woman Knows (assistant director - uncredited)
 
1934 Paris Interlude (assistant director - uncredited)
 
1934 The Thin Man (assistant director - uncredited)
 
1934 Manhattan Melodrama (assistant director - uncredited)
 
1934 Laughing Boy (assistant director - uncredited)
 
1934 The Cat and the Fiddle (assistant director - uncredited)
 
1933 The Warrior's Husband (assistant director - uncredited)
 
1933 Broadway Bad (assistant director)
 
1932 Hat Check Girl (assistant director - uncredited)
 
1932 Born to Fight (assistant director)
 
1931 Good Sport (assistant director - uncredited)
 
1931 The Spider (assistant director - uncredited)
 
1931 A Holy Terror (assistant director - uncredited)
 
1929 True Heaven (assistant director - as Leslie Selander)
 
1928 Win That Girl (assistant director - as Leslie Selander)
 
1928 Don't Marry (assistant director - as R.L. Selander)
 
1928 Soft Living (assistant director - as Leslie Selander)
 
1926 Napoleon, Jr. (short) (assistant director)
 
1926 Jerry the Giant (short) (assistant director)
 
1925 Durand of the Bad Lands (assistant director)
 
1925 Timber Wolf (assistant director - as Leslie Selander)
 
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1954 Stage Coach War (short) (director: archive footage)
 
1953 Wide Open Town (short) (director: archive footage)
 
1952 Battle of the Buttes (short) (director: archive footage)
 
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1925 Wolf Blood (as R. Leslie Selander)
 

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Alternate Names:

Leslie Selander | Lester Selander | Les Selander | R. Lesley Selander | R. Leslie Selander | R.L. Selander
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Selander is generally considered to be the most prolific director of feature Westerns of all time, with at least 107 to his credit between 1935 and 1967. Lambert Hillyer finishes a close second with 106 horse operas helmed between 1917 and 1949. See more »

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