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Biography

Early life

Nelson was born Robert Haakon Nielsen in San Francisco, California. He began acting in school at age of fifteen, playing an 80 year old man. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1941 and, because of his theatrical efforts in school, was almost immediately signed to a motion picture contract by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios. Nickname: The City by the Bay; Fog City; The City Location of the City and County of San Francisco, California Coordinates: Country United States of America State California City-County San Francisco Government - Mayor Gavin Newsom Area - City 47 sq mi (122 kmÂ²) - Land 46. ... Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Area Ranked 3rd - Total 158,302 sq mi (410,000 kmÂ²) - Width 250 miles (400 km) - Length 770 miles (1,240 km) - % water 4. ... Sather tower (the Campanile) looking out over the San Francisco Bay and Mount Tamalpais. ... Film is a term that encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. ... A contract is a legally binding exchange of promises or agreement between parties that the law will enforce. ... For alternate meanings of MGM, see MGM (disambiguation). ... A movie studio is a controlled environment for the making of a film. ...

Career

Nelson made his screen debut in the role as Paul Clark in Shadow of the Thin Man (1941) starring William Powell and Myrna Loy, with Donna Reed.^[2] He followed that with his role as Lew Rankin in the film noir crime/drama Johnny Eager (1942) starring Robert Taylor and Lana Turner.^[3] Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Bottom view of VHS cassette with magnetic tape exposed Top view of VHS cassette with front casing removed The Vertical Helical Scan, better known by its abbreviation VHS (and often confused to be Video Home System) is a recording and playing standard for analog video cassette recorders (VCRs), developed by... Casino Royale is a 1954 television adaptation of the novel of the same name by Ian Fleming. ... Shadow of the Thin Man was the fourth of the six Thin Man movies. ... William Horatio Powell (July 29, 1892 - March 5, 1984) was an American actor, noted for his sophisticated, cynical roles. ... Myrna Loy (August 2, 1905 â€“ December 14, 1993) was an American motion picture actress. ... Main title caption from Dallas. ... This still from The Big Combo (1955) demonstrates the visual style of film noir at its most extreme. ... A drama film is a film that depends mostly on in-depth character development, interaction, and highly emotional themes. ... Johnny Eager is a 1942 film with Van Heflin. ... Robert Taylor in Quo Vadis? Robert Taylor (August 5, 1911, Filley, Nebraska - June 8, 1969, Santa Monica, California), was an American actor. ... Lana Turner (February 8, 1921 â€“ June 29, 1995) was an Academy award-nominated American film actress. ...

During his military service in WWII, Nelson debuted on the Broadway stage in one of the leading roles, Bobby Grills, in Moss Hart's play Winged Victory (1943).^[4] His next Broadway appearance was as Peter Sloan in Hart's Light Up the Sky (1948), which was a first-rate success.^[4] He also appeared opposite Lauren Bacall in the Abe Burrows comedy Cactus Flower in 1965.^[1] Another Broadway role, that of Gus Hammer in The Rat Race (1949)^[4], kept Nelson away from the movies again, but after it closed he starred in the dual roles as Chick Graham and Bert Rand in The Man with My Face (1951), which was produced by Ed Gardner of radio fame. Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki TÅjÅ Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... Broadway theatre[1] is often considered the highest professional form of theatre in the United States. ... Serge Sudeikins poster for the Bat Theatre (1922). ... Moss Hart (October 24, 1904 â€“ December 20, 1961) was an American playwright and director of plays and musical theater. ... Romeo and Juliet by Ford Madox Brown A play, written by a playwright, or dramatist, is a form of literature, almost always consisting of dialog between characters, and intended for performance rather than reading. ... Betty Joan Perske (born on September 16, 1924), better known as Lauren Bacall, is a Golden Globe- and Tony Award winning, as well as Academy Award-nominated, American film and stage actress. ... Abe Burrows (b. ... Cactus Flower is a 1969 film with Goldie Hawn. ... The Man with My Face is a 1951 United Artists film noir crime/thriller motion picture starring Barry Nelson, Carole Mathews, Lynn Ainley, John Harvey, Jim Boles, and Jack Warden. ... Ed Gardner - American Actor Married Shirley Booth in 1929 and the two were divorced in 1942. ...

He was the first actor (and, to date, the only American) to play James Bond on screen, in a 1954 adaptation of Ian Fleming's novel Casino Royale on the TV anthology series Climax! (preceding Sean Connery's interpretation in Dr. No by eight years).^[3] Reportedly this was considered a pilot for a possible James Bond television series, though it's not known if Nelson intended to continue playing the character. Nelson played James Bond as an American named "Jimmy Bond". Flemings commissioned image of James Bond to aid the Daily Express comic strip artists. ... Ian Lancaster Fleming (May 28, 1908 â€“ August 12, 1964) was a British author and journalist as well as Second World War Naval Officer, best remembered for writing the series of novels featuring the character James Bond, as well as the childrens story Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. ... A novel (from French nouvelle Italian novella, new) is an extended, generally fictional narrative, typically in prose. ... Casino Royale by Ian Fleming was the first James Bond novel. ... This does not cite its references or sources. ... Climax! (a. ... Sir Thomas Sean Connery (born 25 August 1930) is an Academy Award-winning Scottish actor and producer who is best known as the first actor to portray James Bond on film. ... Dr. No is the first James Bond film in the official EON Productions series, and the first to star Sean Connery as British Secret Service agent James Bond. ...

The program also featured Peter Lorre as the primary villain; Nelson later noted Lorre was the reason he took the role.^[2] Originally broadcast live, the production was believed lost to time until a kinescope emerged in the 1980s. It was subsequently released to home video, and is currently available on DVD as a bonus feature with the 1967 film adaptation of the novel.^[5] Peter Lorre, 1946, by Yousuf Karsh Peter Lorre (June 26, 1904 â€“ March 23, 1964), born Ladislav (LÃ¡szlÃ³) LÃ¶wenstein, was a stage and screen actor of Austrian descent especially known for playing roles with sinister overtones in Hollywood crime films and mysteries. ... Kinescope (IPA: [], []) originally referred to the cathode ray tube used in television monitors. ... The home video business rents and sells videocassettes and DVDs to the public. ... DVD (commonly known as Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disc) is an optical disc storage media format that can be used for data storage, including movies with high video and sound quality. ... This article contains a trivia section. ...

Nelson's additional television credits include guest appearances on Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Ben Casey, The Twilight Zone and Dr. Kildare. He appeared regularly on TV in the 1960s. He was one of the What's My Line? Mystery Guests and later served as a guest panelist on that popular CBS quiz show. Nelson appeared in both the stage and screen versions of Mary, Mary.^[2]^[4] In 1978, he was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for his role as Dan Connors in The Act (1977) with Liza Minnelli.^[2] His final appearance on Broadway was as Julian Marsh in 42nd Street (1986).^[4] Screenshot of opening sequence of Alfred Hitchcock Presents Alfred Hitchcock Presents was a half-hour anthology television series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock. ... Dr. Maggie Graham (Bettye Ackerman) and Vince Edwards as the title character Ben Casey was a medical drama series which ran on ABC from 1961 to 1966. ... The Twilight Zone title. ... Dr. James Kildare was the primary character in a series of American theatrical films in the late 1930s and early 1940s, an early 1950s radio series, and a 1960s television series of the same name. ... This article or section contains information that has not been verified and thus might not be reliable. ... CBS is one of the largest radio and television networks in the United States. ... Mary, Mary is a play by Jean Kerr. ... 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday. ... What is popularly called the Tony Award (formally, the Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre) is an annual award celebrating achievements in live American theater, including musical theater, primarily honoring productions on Broadway in New York. ... The Act is a Broadway musical by the writing team of Kander and Ebb with a book by George Furth. ... Liza May Minnelli (born March 12, 1946 in Los Angeles, California) is an Academy Award-winning and Tony Award-winning American actress and singer. ...

"He was a very naturalistic, believable actor," said his agent, Francis Delduca. "He was good at both comedy and the serious stuff."^[1]

Among his other film credits were Airport and The Shining, and he also appeared on such TV shows as Murder, She Wrote, Dallas and Magnum, P.I. More recently, Nelson and his second wife spent a lot of time travelling.^[1] He planned to write a couple of books about his time on stage and in Hollywood.^[1] The Shining is a 1980 horror film by Stanley Kubrick based on Stephen Kings novel of the same name. ... Jessica in the Murder, She Wrote episode The Cemetery Vote Murder, She Wrote is a long-running television mystery series starring Angela Lansbury as mystery writer and amateur detective Jessica Fletcher. ... The Southfork Ranch, home of the Ewing family The original cast of Dallas. ... Magnum, P.I. was an American television show that followed the adventures of Thomas Magnum (played by Tom Selleck), a private investigator living in Hawaii. ... This does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...

Personal life

Nelson had two wives, actress Teresa Celli, married in 1951 and later divorced, and Nansilee (Nansi) Hoy, who he was married to until his death. Nelson and his second wife divided their time between homes in New York and France.^[6] Until his death, Nelson could be seen publicly at American Civil War Shows across America. 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ... This article is becoming very long. ...

According to Nansi Nelson, Nelson died on April 7, 2007 while traveling in Bucks County, Pa. The cause of death was not immediately known.

Partial filmography

Shadow of the Thin Man was the fourth of the six Thin Man movies. ... Johnny Eager is a 1942 film with Van Heflin. ... Dr. James Kildare was the primary character in a series of American theatrical films in the late 1930s and early 1940s, an early 1950s radio series, and a 1960s television series of the same name. ... The Human Comedy is a novel by William Saroyan. ... A Guy Named Joe is a 1943 film by Victor Fleming. ... The Man with My Face is a 1951 United Artists film noir crime/thriller motion picture starring Barry Nelson, Carole Mathews, Lynn Ainley, John Harvey, Jim Boles, and Jack Warden. ... Pete n Tillie was a film released in 1972. ... The Shining is a 1980 horror film by Stanley Kubrick based on Stephen Kings novel of the same name. ...

References

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External links

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