Lee Sholem(1913-2000)
- Director
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Additional Crew
If only one Hollywood name is synonymous with speed and efficiency, it
has to be Lee "Roll 'Em" Sholem. In a 40-year career, he directed
upwards of 1300 shows, both features and TV episodes, without once
going over schedule--a feat probably unparalleled in Hollywood history.
Sholem started out in the cutting room some time in the 1930s. A
lengthy association with "Tarzan" producer Sol Lesser brought him in
contact with the celebrated William Cameron Menzies, from whom Sholem learned the key
to expedient production, and later led to his first directorial
assignment (Lesser's Tarzan's Magic Fountain (1949)).
