Forrest Sheldon
American film director and screenwriter
Forrest Sheldon
Born Forrest K. Sheldon
Occupations Actor, film director, screenwriter
Forrest K. Sheldon was an American actor, film director and screenwriter. He directed and wrote for over forty films from 1924 to 1940. Many of his films were westerns.
Sheldon was born in Trinidad, Colorado . 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.
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
References
↑ " "Ginsberg the Great," Alias Georgie Jessel, Turns Magician at Broadway" . Daily News . New York , New York . January 26, 1928. p. 374. Retrieved August 31, 2025 – via Newspapers.com .
↑ The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States . University of California Press. 1997. ISBN 978-0-520-20969-5 – via Google Books .
↑ "AFI|Catalog" . catalog.afi.com . Retrieved 2025-09-01 .
↑ The Film Daily Production Guide and Director's Annual . Film Daily. 1936. p. 235 – via Google Books .
↑ "The Film Daily Product Guide and Director's Annual" . Film Daily. September 1, 1937 – via Google Books.
↑ "Strand Theatre" . Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate . Newcastle, New South Wales , Australia. April 2, 1926. p. 6. Retrieved August 31, 2025 – via Newspapers.com .
↑ McGowan, John J. (2005). J.P. McGowan: Biography of a Hollywood Pioneer . McFarland. p. 157. ISBN 9780786419944 – via Google Books .
↑ "Motion Picture Herald" . 1925 – via Google Books .
↑ "An exception has occurred | George Eastman Museum" .
↑ "Story by Forrest Sheldon" . The Star Press . Muncie, Indiana . October 7, 1928. p. 26. Retrieved September 1, 2025 – via Newspapers.com .
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