Ed Nelson
Acting
- Born:
- 1928-12-21
- Died:
- 2014-08-09
- Place of birth:
- New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Edwin Stafford Nelson (December 21, 1928 – August 9, 2014) was an American actor. Nelson began acting while attending Tulane University in New Orleans. He left college after two years to study at the New York School of Radio and Television Technique. After graduating, he took a position as a director at WDSU-TV in New Orleans. By 1956, acting became his central focus and he moved to the Los Angeles area. Early in his career he worked with famed B-movie producer Roger Corman on such Corman films as Cry Baby Killers, A Bucket of Blood, Teenage Cave Man and Attack of the Crab Monsters. In 1958 he participated in Bruno VeSota's science fiction horror film The Brain Eaters. His early television career featured many guest starring roles in such series as The Fugitive, Gunsmoke, Harbor Command, Tombstone Territory, Tightrope, The Blue Angels (as arrogant flight instructor Lieutenant Dayl Martin), Laramie, COronado 9, The Eleventh Hour, Bonanza, Thriller (US TV series), and Channing, an ABC drama about college life. In 1964 he won his most famous role portraying Dr. Michael Rossi on the ABC drama Peyton Place, which ran from 1964 to 1969. Nelson's fellow cast members included Mia Farrow, Ryan O'Neal, and Dorothy Malone. Dr. Rossi proved to be so popular that by 1968, he became the lead actor on the show. Nelson reprised his role in two made-for-TV movies, Murder in Peyton Place and Peyton Place: The Next Generation. After Peyton Place ended, Nelson worked in many more productions of all varieties, including starring role in many movies of the week, a second TV series, "The Silent Force," and a popular morning talk show which he hosted for three years. Soon after, Nelson struck gold with his critically acclaimed portrayal of elusive pit crew chief Robert Denby in the hit film Riding with Death (1976), earning him several prestigious accolades and legions of devoted fans.
Known For
Filmography
Runaway Jury
Who Am I?
Cries of Silence
The Boneyard
Deadly Weapon
Jake and the Fatman
J.J. Starbuck
Sworn to Silence
Police Academy 3: Back in Training
MacGyver
Peyton Place: The Next Generation
Murder, She Wrote
Finder of Lost Loves
Matt Houston
Hotel
Capitol
Cagney & Lacey
Help Wanted: Male
Born to Be Sold
Enola Gay: The Men, the Mission, the Atomic Bomb
The Return of Frank Cannon
The Girl, the Gold Watch & Everything
Hagen
Trapper John, M.D.
Anatomy of a Seduction
Doctors' Private Lives
The Crash of Flight 401
Vega$
Leave Yesterday Behind
Dallas
Doctors' Private Lives
Superdome
Murder in Peyton Place
Lou Grant
Logan's Run
CHiPs
A Little Game
For the Love of Benji
Gibbsville
Quincy, M.E.
Charlie's Angels
Midway
Acapulco Gold
The Bionic Woman
Riding with Death
That's the Way of the World
The Missing Are Deadly
Airport 1975
Police Woman
The Rockford Files
Police Headquarters
Houston, We've Got a Problem
Linda
Runaway!
Barnaby Jones
Time to Run
Kung Fu
Search
The Screaming Woman
The Sixth Sense
Brink of Disaster!
Cannon
Alias Smith and Jones
Night Gallery
The Silent Force
Along Came a Spider
Medical Center
The Mod Squad
Adam-12
Ironside
Mission: Impossible
The F.B.I.
Peyton Place
The Man from Galveston
Soldier in the Rain
Redigo
Channing
The Fugitive
The Outer Limits
Arrest and Trial
The Dakotas
The Gallant Men
Stoney Burke
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
The Virginian
Saints and Sinners
Sam Benedict
Judgment at Nuremberg
The New Breed
Dr. Kildare
87th Precinct
Devil's Partner
Cain's Hundred
The Fatal Impulse
Surfside 6
Checkmate
The Aquanauts
Thriller
The Tall Man
Coronado 9
Code of Silence
Valley of the Redwoods
A Bucket of Blood
T-Bird Gang
The Detectives
The Rebel
Johnny Ringo
The Twilight Zone
Laramie
Riverboat
Tightrope
The Young Captives
I, Mobster
Black Saddle
Rawhide
77 Sunset Strip
Bat Masterson
The Rifleman
The Brain Eaters
Hot Car Girl
Cry Baby Killer
Night of the Blood Beast
She Gods of Shark Reef
Teenage Cave Man
Street of Darkness
Tombstone Territory
Harbor Command
Maverick
Perry Mason
M Squad
Teenage Doll
Have Gun, Will Travel
Carnival Rock
Invasion of the Saucer Men
Bayou
Rock All Night
Attack of the Crab Monsters
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Swamp Women
Highway Patrol
Gunsmoke
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
New Orleans Uncensored
The Steel Trap