Forrest Sheldon

Forrest Sheldon
Born	Forrest K. Sheldon Trinidad, Colorado, U.S.
Occupations	Film director, screenwriter, actor

Forrest K. Sheldon was an American film director, screenwriter and actor. He was born in Trinidad, Colorado. Sheldon directed and wrote for 40 films from 1924 to 1940. Many of his films were westerns.

He was educated in Los Angeles and began working at Kalem 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.

Filmography

• False Trails (1924), actor
• Makers of Men (1925), director
• Never Too Late (1925), director
• No Man's Law (1925), director
• The Knockout Kid (1925), writer
• The Snob Buster (1925), writer
• The Man from Oklahoma (1926), director
• The Grey Vulture (1926), director
• The Haunted Ship (1927), director
• Code of the Scarlet (1928), co-writer
• Law of the Rio Grande (1931), director
• Dynamite Ranch (1932), director
• Hell Fire Austin (1932), director
• Between Fighting Men (1932), director
• 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
• Phantom Thunderbolt (1933), co-writer
• The Lone Avenger (1933), writer
• Wilderness Mail (1935), director
• Men of Action (1935), co-wrote screenplay
• Port of Hate (1939), story
• Texas Stampede (1939), co-writer

External links

• Forrest Sheldon at IMDb