![]() Avg.User Rating: Rate this person: Director Born: 1900 Biography:"Lee T. Sholem" joined the film business before World War II and emerged as a director of features immediately after the war. An action movie specialist who could shoot quickly around the worst personal and budgetary obstacles (hence his nickname, "Roll 'Em Sholem") who treated even the most juvenile story seriously, Sholem never aspired past B-movies and television, but had several opportunities within these restrictions to direct material that was widely seen, especially by younger viewers. These included the "Sol Lesser"-produced Tarzan's Magic Fountain (1949) and its sequel, the theatrical film "Superman and the Mole Men" (1951), starring "George Reeves" as the Man of Steel, and numerous early episodes of the subsequent television series (Sholem and "Tommy Carr" were the two best directors the series had -- "Phyllis Coates", who played Lois Lane, vividly recalled Sholem's directing of the episode... Full Biography
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