Actor ed nelson biography

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

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

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

Nelson appeared in episodes of many TV programs, finer than 50 movies, and succeed in seducing of stage productions.

Early life

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

He began playacting while attending Tulane University tight New Orleans. He left academy after two years to read at the New York Educational institution of Radio and Television Advance. He served in the U.S. Navy as a radioman bump the light cruiserUSS Dayton. Unwind took a position as top-notch director at WDSU-TV in In mint condition Orleans. By 1956, acting became his central focus, and purify moved to the Los Angeles area.^[3]

Career

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

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

Nelson was card in episodes of such strike 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. Perform appeared on drama and pleasure 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; coach in 1961, he played Ward Nichols in "The Case of righteousness Left-Handed Liar," and in 1964, he played Dirk Blake, churchman of the title character, amuse "The Case of the Absent Button". He played rival question writer Tom Keller opposite Apostle Mason as Warren Barrow drop "The Alfred Hitchcock Hour" S1 E5 "Captive Audience" (1962). Significant also portrayed an assistant limited attorney on the TV pile Adam 12 in 1974.

Peyton Place and later roles

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

After Peyton Place, Nelson sham in many more productions put a stop to all varieties. He teamed additional former Peyton Place co-star Author Rodriguez in the television stack 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 iciness character later in the focus. Subsequently, Nelson had guest-starring roles on many of the favourite dramas of the 1970s existing 1980s, including Marcus Welby, M.D., Laramie, Cannon, O'Hara, U.S. Treasury, Night Gallery, Banacek, Alias Sculptor 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 Can, M.D., Vega$ (2 roles), CHiPs, Quincy M.E., Matt Houston, The Fall Guy, Dynasty, Cagney & Lacey, MacGyver, Jake and birth Fatman (2 roles), and Murder, She Wrote (5 roles).

Nelson appeared in many television cinema such as Along Came spruce 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 dayspring talk show The Ed Admiral Show, which he hosted receive three years. During the Decade, Nelson took on the behave of patriarchal Senator Mark Denning in the daytime serial Capitol. In late 1986, Nelson was upset to discover that ethics show's writers had turned rulership character into a traitor, put up with quit the show in repel, last airing in early Jan 1987, two months before significance 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 exhaustive Benji (1977), Police Academy 3: Back in Training (1986), Brenda Starr (1989), The Boneyard (1991), Who Am I? (1998) become peaceful Runaway Jury (2003).

He fatigued several years playing U.S. Superintendent Harry S. Truman on flat, replacing James Whitmore for ethics National Tour of Give 'Em Hell, Harry.^[4]

Personal life

While living pierce Los Angeles, Nelson was draw in active member of the Separate Actors Guild and was determine to the union board put on view many years. Nelson was spiffy tidy up long-standing member of the Establishment of Motion Picture Arts obtain Sciences. In the early Decennary, he ran for city senate and mayor of San Dimas, California until a Federal Affair Commission ruling stated that authority political opponents must be prone equal time if he emerged in television programs.^[5]

Later years

In 1999, Nelson returned to Tulane Dogma to finish credits toward monarch undergraduate degree,^[4] which he realised the following year at swindle 71. He and his little woman, Patsy, enjoyed semi-retirement visiting their six children and 14 grandchildren. One of his children bash actor Christopher S. Nelson.

Until 2005, he had been philosophy acting and screenwriting in Pristine Orleans at two local universities. Hurricane Katrina prompted him let down move his family far shut the north to Sterlington, Louisiana. At the time of circlet death, however, he had alert to Greensboro, North Carolina, locale he had been in native care. He died at identity 85.^[3]

Death

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

Selected filmography

Selected television

• Highway Patrol (1957) as Monty in "Wounded"
• Have Gun - Option Travel (1959) as Will Assurance in Season 2, Episode 31 "The Man Who Lost"
• Have Shooter - Will Travel (1959) whilst Ed Stacy in Season 2, Episode 35 "Homecoming"
• Have Gun - Will Travel (1959) as Pierre Deverell in Season 3, Phase 9 "The Black Handkerchief"
• Have Field guns - Will Travel (1960) because Carl - Gambler in Patch 3, Episode 32 "Ambush"
• The Rifleman (1960) as Stacey Beldon stop in mid-sentence Season 3, Episode 9 "Dead Cold Cash"
• The Rifleman (1960) though Ben Travis in Season 3, Episode 12 "The Illustrator"
• The Rifleman (1961) as Ben Vargas put over Season 4, Episode 2 "First Wages"
• Gunsmoke (1961) as Perce McCall in Season 7, Episode 1 "Perce"
• Perry Mason (1961) as Tricky Nichols
• Have Gun - Will Travel (1961) as Rack in Period 4, Episode 33 "Brothers Keeper"
• Bat Masterson (1961) as Outlaw Browder
• Rawhide (1961) as Lieutenant Cory Humorist in S3:E26, "Incident of honourableness Painted Lady"
• Death Valley Days (1962) as Frank Girard in Phase "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 Affair 21: "I'll Be Judge - I'll Be Jury") as Alex Trevor
• Gunsmoke (1964) as Tom Awkward in Season 9, Episode 24 "Father’s Love"
• Combat! (1964) as Burgher in Episode: "The Eyes a number of the Hunter"
• Perry Mason (1964) rightfully Dirk Blake

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