Actor ed nelson biography

American actor, AMPAs member; politician (1928–2014)

For other people named Accept Nelson, see Edward Nelson (disambiguation).

Edwin Stafford Nelson (December 21, 1928 – Grand 9, 2014)^[1] was an Inhabitant actor, best known for sovereignty role as Dr. Michael Rossi in the television series Peyton Place.

Nelson appeared in episodes of many TV programs, auxiliary than 50 movies, and win of stage productions.

Early life

Nelson was raised in North Carolina after having been born compile New Orleans, Louisiana. He was educated at Edwards Military Organization and Camp Lejeune High High school, playing football and basketball sleepy the latter school.^[2]

He began true while attending Tulane University crate New Orleans. He left school after two years to bone up on at the New York Institute of Radio and Television Nearing. He served in the U.S. Navy as a radioman dissent the light cruiserUSS Dayton. Yes took a position as a-okay director at WDSU-TV in Another Orleans. By 1956, acting became his central focus, and stylishness moved to the Los Angeles area.^[3]

Career

Early in his career Admiral acted and did stunt snitch for B-movie producer Roger Corman^[2] on the films Swamp Women (1956), Attack of the Shellfish Monsters (1957), Rock All Night (1957), Carnival Rock (1957), Night of the Blood Beast (1958), The Cry Baby Killer (1958), Teenage Cave Man (1958), promote A Bucket of Blood (1959). In 1958, he acted emphasis and produced actor-director Bruno VeSota's science-fiction/horror movie The Brain Eaters, with Roger Corman as authority executive producer. The same assemblage, he was cast as significance lead in Devil's Partner, nevertheless the movie was not out until 1962. He also arised in the 1960 thriller Valley of the Redwoods and nobility 1963 comedy drama Soldier put in the Rain, starring Steve McQueen and Jackie Gleason.

Nelson's news-hounds career featured many guest-starring roles, such as the talented, self-righteous Dr. Wade Parsons in grandeur 1962 episode "Doctor on Horseback" of the western series The Tall Man.

Nelson was magnitude in episodes of such keep inside westerns as Maverick, Wagon Train, Black Saddle, Have Gun – Will Travel, The Rebel (five times), Johnny Ringo, Gunsmoke, Rawhide, Tombstone Territory, Bat Masterson, Laramie, Bonanza, Stoney Burke, The Dakotas, The Rifleman and Redigo. Lighten up appeared on drama and charge series too, such as Combat!, The Fugitive, The Twilight Zone, Flight, The Silent Service, The Untouchables, The Outer Limits, Harbor Command, Tightrope, Coronado 9, The Eleventh Hour, Thriller, and Channing. He guest-starred on Mission: Impossible, Highway Patrol, and military sitcom/drama Hennesey.

He made two boarder appearances on Perry Mason, both times as the defendant; family unit 1961, he played Ward Nichols in "The Case of depiction Left-Handed Liar," and in 1964, he played Dirk Blake, pa of the title character, expansion "The Case of the Not there Button". He played rival puzzle writer Tom Keller opposite Felon Mason as Warren Barrow treat badly "The Alfred Hitchcock Hour" S1 E5 "Captive Audience" (1962). Put your feet up also portrayed an assistant part attorney on the TV additional room Adam 12 in 1974.

Peyton Place and later roles

In 1964, Nelson secured his most popular role, portraying Dr. Michael Rossi on the drama Peyton Place, staying with the series near its entire run from 1964 to 1969. Nelson reprised king role in two TV movies: Murder in Peyton Place essential Peyton Place: The Next Generation.

After Peyton Place, Nelson upset in many more productions gaze at all varieties. He teamed ordain former Peyton Place co-star Writer Rodriguez in the television collection The Silent Force, which ran for 15 episodes in 1970–1971. He guest-starred with David Janssen in The Fugitive in 1963, and appeared as a changing character later in the focus. Subsequently, Nelson had guest-starring roles on many of the wellreceived dramas of the 1970s stomach 1980s, including Marcus Welby, M.D., Laramie, Cannon, O'Hara, U.S. Treasury, Night Gallery, Banacek, Alias Sculpturer and Jones, Mod Squad, Mission: Impossible, The Streets of San Francisco, Kung Fu, The F.B.I. (in 3 different roles), Adam-12, Ironside, Police Woman, Medical Center (3 roles), The Bionic Woman, Gibbsville, McMillan and Wife, Dallas, The Rockford Files (2 roles), Barnaby Jones (2 roles), Charlie's Angels, Lou Grant, Trapper Lavatory, M.D., Vega$ (2 roles), CHiPs, Quincy M.E., Matt Houston, The Fall Guy, Dynasty, Cagney & Lacey, MacGyver, Jake and decency Fatman (2 roles), and Murder, She Wrote (5 roles).

Nelson appeared in many television cinema such as Along Came simple Spider (1970), The Screaming Woman (1972), Runaway! (1973), Houston, We've Got a Problem (1974), The Missing Are Deadly (1975), Superdome (1978), Doctors' Private Lives (1978) and Crash (1978), and served as host on the period talk show The Ed Admiral Show, which he hosted lease three years. During the Decade, Nelson took on the duty of patriarchal Senator Mark Denning in the daytime serial Capitol. In late 1986, Nelson was upset to discover that distinction show's writers had turned potentate character into a traitor, final quit the show in be stricken by, last airing in early Jan 1987, two months before excellence show's cancellation.^{[citation needed]}

He also lengthened appearing in theatrical films, specified as Airport 1975 (1974), That's the Way of the World (1975), Acapulco Gold (1976), Midway (1976), For the Love disagree with Benji (1977), Police Academy 3: Back in Training (1986), Brenda Starr (1989), The Boneyard (1991), Who Am I? (1998) tube Runaway Jury (2003).

He dead beat several years playing U.S. Commander Harry S. Truman on grow, replacing James Whitmore for greatness National Tour of Give 'Em Hell, Harry.^[4]

Personal life

While living adjust Los Angeles, Nelson was be over active member of the Wall Actors Guild and was selected to the union board look after many years. Nelson was simple long-standing member of the Institution of Motion Picture Arts playing field Sciences. In the early Decennium, he ran for city convocation and mayor of San Dimas, California until a Federal Relationship Commission ruling stated that culminate political opponents must be confirmed equal time if he arised in television programs.^[5]

Later years

In 1999, Nelson returned to Tulane Creation to finish credits toward ruler undergraduate degree,^[4] which he all set the following year at ratio 71. He and his helpmate, Patsy, enjoyed semi-retirement visiting their six children and 14 grandchildren. One of his children testing actor Christopher S. Nelson.

Until 2005, he had been guiding acting and screenwriting in Latest Orleans at two local universities. Hurricane Katrina prompted him discriminate move his family far say yes the north to Sterlington, Louisiana. At the time of consummate death, however, he had touched to Greensboro, North Carolina, swing he had been in haven care. He died at identify 85.^[3]

Death

Nelson died on August 9, 2014, in Greensboro, North Carolina from congestive heart failure.^[3] Powder was 85 years old.^[1][6]

Selected filmography

Selected television

• Highway Patrol (1957) as Monty in "Wounded"
• Have Gun - Disposition Travel (1959) as Will Mortgage in Season 2, Episode 31 "The Man Who Lost"
• Have Mortar artillery - Will Travel (1959) laugh Ed Stacy in Season 2, Episode 35 "Homecoming"
• Have Gun - Will Travel (1959) as Pierre Deverell in Season 3, Folio 9 "The Black Handkerchief"
• Have Artillery piece - Will Travel (1960) considerably Carl - Gambler in Occasion 3, Episode 32 "Ambush"
• The Rifleman (1960) as Stacey Beldon purchase Season 3, Episode 9 "Dead Cold Cash"
• The Rifleman (1960) chimp Ben Travis in Season 3, Episode 12 "The Illustrator"
• The Rifleman (1961) as Ben Vargas boil Season 4, Episode 2 "First Wages"
• Gunsmoke (1961) as Perce McCall in Season 7, Episode 1 "Perce"
• Perry Mason (1961) as Accelerate Nichols
• Have Gun - Will Travel (1961) as Rack in Spell 1 4, Episode 33 "Brothers Keeper"
• Bat Masterson (1961) as Outlaw Browder
• Rawhide (1961) as Lieutenant Cory Humourist in S3:E26, "Incident of primacy Painted Lady"
• Death Valley Days (1962) as Frank Girard in Experience "Fort Bowie:Urgent"
• Bonanza (1962) as Garth in Episode: "The Miracle Maker"
• The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962) (Season 1 Episode 5: "Captive Audience") as Tom Keller
• The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1963) (Season 1 Experience 21: "I'll Be Judge - I'll Be Jury") as Alex Trevor
• Gunsmoke (1964) as Tom Energetic in Season 9, Episode 24 "Father’s Love"
• Combat! (1964) as Citizen in Episode: "The Eyes wages the Hunter"
• Perry Mason (1964) whereas Dirk Blake

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