Forrest Sheldon
American film director and screenwriter
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Forrest K. Sheldon was an American actor, film director and screenwriter.[1][2] He directed and wrote for over forty films from 1924 to 1940.[3] Many of his films were westerns.
Born
Forrest K. Sheldon
Trinidad, Colorado, U.S.
OccupationsActor, film director, screenwriter
Forrest Sheldon | |
|---|---|
| Born | Forrest K. Sheldon Trinidad, Colorado, U.S. |
| Occupations | Actor, film director, screenwriter |
Sheldon was born in Trinidad, Colorado.[4] He was educated in Los Angeles, California and began working at Kalem Company in 1914. He worked for various studios and worked on Ken Maynard films including Hell-Fire Austin. He also worked on Tom Keene and Buck Jones films.[5]
Filmography
- False Trails (1924), actor
- Makers of Men (1925), director[6][7]
- Never Too Late (1925), director
- No Man's Law (1925), director[8]
- The Knockout Kid (1925), writer
- The Snob Buster (1925), writer
- The Man from Oklahoma (1926), director
- The Grey Vulture (1926), director[9]
- The Haunted Ship (1927), director
- Code of the Scarlet (1928), co-writer[10]
- Law of the Rio Grande (1931), director
- Dynamite Ranch (1932), director
- Hell Fire Austin (1932), director
- Between Fighting Men (1932), director[11]
- The Lone Trail (1932), director
- Hell-Fire Austin (1932)
- The Texas Ranger (1931), writer
- The Lone Rider (1930), co-wrote
- The Dawn Trail (1930), story[11]
- Phantom Thunderbolt (1933), co-writer[11]
- The Lone Avenger (1933), writer[11]
- Wilderness Mail (1935), director
- Men of Action (1935), co-wrote screenplay
- Port of Hate (1939), story
- Texas Stampede (1939), co-writer
