by Hans J. Wollstein
biography
A ten-year veteran of the Belasco stock company, American writer/director Jack Nelson began his screen career acting for such pioneering California companies as Selig and Kay-Bee. By the 1920s, he was helming Bob Custer B-Westerns for low-budget company FBO and more notably Universal's popular series of Pioneer Boy two-reelers, which starred Nelson's young son Bobby Nelson. A specialist of action melodramas, Nelson also directed the serials Perils of the Jungle (1927) and Tarzan the Mighty (1928), footage from which was edited into a feature film released in 1947 as The White Gorilla.
