Lee Sholem

Directing

Lee Sholem

Born — Died

1913-05-25 — 2000-08-19

Place of birth

Paris, Illinois, USA

Known for

Directing

Credits

17 titles

Lee Tabor Sholem (born 25 May 1913 in Paris, Illinois and died 19 August 2000 in Los Angeles, California) was an American television and film director. Nicknamed ""Roll 'Em" Sholem", he is identified more than anyone else in the industry with speed and efficiency. He directed more than 1300 shows, including both features and TV episodes, without ever going over schedule. His achievements over a 40-year career have, as of yet, been unsurpassed in Hollywood history. Sholem's first film was Tarzan's Magic Fountain in 1949 and his last film was The Doomsday Machine in 1972. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lee Sholem, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known for

Superman and the Mole Men poster
5.3

Reporters Clark Kent and Lois Lane arrive in the small town of Silsby to witness the drilling of the world's deepest oil well. The drill, however, has penetrated the underground home of a race of small, furry people who then come to the surface at night to look around. The fact that they glow in the dark scares the townfolk, who form a mob, led by the vicious Luke Benson, intent on killing the strange people. Only Superman has a chance to prevent this tragedy.

Superman and the Mole Men

1951

Emergency Hospital poster
7.3

About the lives and loves of the staff of an emergency hospital as reflected in a single frenetic night of business-as-usual.

Emergency Hospital

1956

The Redhead from Wyoming poster
6.3

A saloonkeeper sides with the sheriff for justice after she's framed for rustling.

The Redhead from Wyoming

1953

Tobor the Great poster
5.3

To avoid the life-threatening dangers of manned space exploration, Professor Nordstrom creates highly advanced form of artificial intelligence capable of piloting a starship to other worlds. In order to transmit alien data, the extraordinary robot is infused with a powerful telepathic device that enables it to instantly read and even feel emotions. Danger strikes when a sinister band of covert agents kidnaps Gadge, the professor's 10-year-old grandson. But Gadge has a powerful ally. For he has developed a psychic, emotional bond with his grandfather's robot. And now Gadge's captors must suffer the wrath of his protective friend. They must face a mechanical monstrosity bent on a killing rampage of revenge and destruction.

Tobor the Great

1954

Tarzan and the Slave Girl poster
5.6

The Lionians, a tribe of lion worshippers, make a desperate attempt to find a cure for the mysterious disease plaguing their village. Their Chief decides to kidnap Jane and Lola, a half-breed nurse, in order to help repopulate his civilization. Tarzan must rescue them while fending off blowgun attacks from people called the Waddies who are disguised as bushes.

Tarzan and the Slave Girl

1950

Cannibal Attack poster
6.2

Jungle Jim fights enemy agents who are trying to steal cobalt while disguised as crocodiles.

Cannibal Attack

1954

Behind the camera

Superman and the Mole Men poster
5.3

Reporters Clark Kent and Lois Lane arrive in the small town of Silsby to witness the drilling of the world's deepest oil well. The drill, however, has penetrated the underground home of a race of small, furry people who then come to the surface at night to look around. The fact that they glow in the dark scares the townfolk, who form a mob, led by the vicious Luke Benson, intent on killing the strange people. Only Superman has a chance to prevent this tragedy.

Superman and the Mole Men

1951

Emergency Hospital poster
7.3

About the lives and loves of the staff of an emergency hospital as reflected in a single frenetic night of business-as-usual.

Emergency Hospital

1956

The Redhead from Wyoming poster
6.3

A saloonkeeper sides with the sheriff for justice after she's framed for rustling.

The Redhead from Wyoming

1953

Tobor the Great poster
5.3

To avoid the life-threatening dangers of manned space exploration, Professor Nordstrom creates highly advanced form of artificial intelligence capable of piloting a starship to other worlds. In order to transmit alien data, the extraordinary robot is infused with a powerful telepathic device that enables it to instantly read and even feel emotions. Danger strikes when a sinister band of covert agents kidnaps Gadge, the professor's 10-year-old grandson. But Gadge has a powerful ally. For he has developed a psychic, emotional bond with his grandfather's robot. And now Gadge's captors must suffer the wrath of his protective friend. They must face a mechanical monstrosity bent on a killing rampage of revenge and destruction.

Tobor the Great

1954

Tarzan and the Slave Girl poster
5.6

The Lionians, a tribe of lion worshippers, make a desperate attempt to find a cure for the mysterious disease plaguing their village. Their Chief decides to kidnap Jane and Lola, a half-breed nurse, in order to help repopulate his civilization. Tarzan must rescue them while fending off blowgun attacks from people called the Waddies who are disguised as bushes.

Tarzan and the Slave Girl

1950

Cannibal Attack poster
6.2

Jungle Jim fights enemy agents who are trying to steal cobalt while disguised as crocodiles.

Cannibal Attack

1954

Tarzan's Magic Fountain poster
5.9

An expedition tries to enlist Tarzan's help in finding the secret Blue Valley, which legend says is the location of a miraculous fountain of youth.

Tarzan's Magic Fountain

1949

Doomsday Machine poster
3.2

Following the discovery of a doomsday machine capable of destroying Earth, the launch of a US space mission to Venus is taken over by the military.

Doomsday Machine

1972

The Stand at Apache River poster
6.4

Sheriff Lane Dakota captures robbery-murder suspect Greiner just as the latter is wounded in an Apache ambush. At remote outpost Apache River, Lane and his prisoner spend the night with other travelers, including 2 women with a surprising number of fancy dresses. In the morning, who should appear but a band of ostensibly peaceful Apaches strayed from the reservation. And bigoted Colonel Morsby is strongly inclined to shoot first and ask questions afterward...

The Stand at Apache River

1953

Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki poster
6.8

Ma and Pa, along with daughter Rosie, go off to Hawaii in answer to cousin Rodney's call for help running his pineapple farm while he recovers from an illness. Pa soon causes a major explosion and gets himself kidnapped.

Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki

1955

Hell Ship Mutiny poster
5.5

A ship's captain in the South Seas battles a villainous pearl trader who uses island natives as slaves for his business.

Hell Ship Mutiny

1957

Sierra Stranger poster
5.0

A prospector becomes a small town outcast after he rescues a man about to be lynched.

Sierra Stranger

1957

Pharaoh's Curse poster
4.6

Archaeologists in Egypt find one of their crew has been turned into a blood sucking mummy after they have unleashed a three thousand year curse.

Pharaoh's Curse

1957

Crime Against Joe poster
5.9

Down-and-out artist Joe Manning wakes up from a night of drunken revelry in a jail cell, where he's being held on suspicion for the murder of a nightclub singer.

Crime Against Joe

1956

Jungle Man-Eaters poster
5.3

Jungle Jim does battle with a would-be diamond smuggler and a renegade tribe.

Jungle Man-Eaters

1954

The Louisiana Hussy poster
4.7

Cajun newlyweds must deal with the jealousy of his brother, who also loved her, and the arrival of a mysterious seductress in their bayou backwater.

The Louisiana Hussy

1959

Catalina Caper poster
2.4

A group of swingin' teens take time out from having fun in the sun to try to foil a group of crooks searching for a stolen scroll.

Catalina Caper

1967