Ed Nelson
Nacimiento : 1928-12-21, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Muerte : 2014-08-09
Historia
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Edwin Stafford Nelson (born December 21, 1928) is an American actor.
Nelson has appeared in numerous television shows, more than fifty motion pictures, and hundreds of stage productions. Until 2005, he was teaching acting and screenwriting in his native New Orleans at two local universities there. Hurricane Katrina prompted him to move his family to Sterlington near Monroe in Ouachita Parish in northeastern Louisiana.
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.
He portrayed a dangerous impostor in the adventure movie For the Love of Benji (1977).
During the 1980s, Nelson took on the role of Senator Mark Denning in the daytime soap Capitol.
Nelson also spent a couple of years as Harry Truman onstage replacing James Whitmore for the National Tour of "Give 'Em Hell, Harry."
While living in Los Angeles, Nelson was an active member of the Screen Actors Guild and was elected to the union board for many years. Nelson is a long-standing member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and continues a long tradition of participation in voting for the Academy Awards.
In 1999, Nelson returned to Tulane University to finish credits toward his undergraduate degree, which he completed the following year at the age of seventy-one. Nelson continues to act as the opportunity arises. He and his wife of fifty-eight years, Patsy, enjoy semi-retirement visiting his six children and fourteen grandchildren.
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George Dressler
Cuando una joven viuda interpone en Nueva Orleáns una demanda contra una poderosa empresa de fabricación de armas a la que responsabiliza de la muerte de su marido, comienza un juicio en el que están en juego millones de dólares. Pero se trata de un juicio que casi está ganado de antemano debido a la selección, manipulación e intento de comprar al jurado. Los intereses de la viuda los defiende Wendall Rohr (Dustin Hoffman), un abogado sureño con sólidos principios y un sincero interés por el caso. El abogado que representa a la empresa es, en realidad, el hombre de paja de Rankin Fitch (Gene Hackman), un brillante y despiadado especialista en jurados. En un sofisticado centro de mando situado en un viejo almacén del barrio francés, Fitch y su equipo valoran a los potenciales miembros del jurado. Se trata de conseguir el jurado perfecto para los intereses de la empresa.
General Sharman
Jackie es reclutado por la CIA para formar parte de un comando de élite, que recibe la orden de asaltar un laboratorio secreto de armamento tecnológico en la jungla africana. Traicionados por su jefe, todo el equipo muere excepto Jackie, que es abandonado inconsciente en la jungla. Una tribu le recoge y le cura, aunque sufre de amnesia que le impide saber quién es y cómo llegó hasta allí. Su lucha por descubrir su verdadera identidad le hará sufrir la persecución de sus antiguos enemigos, y no podrá confiar en nadie nunca más. (FILMAFFINITY)
Dr. August Claiborne
In the wake of Hurricane Camille, the infamous '60's storm that crippled the Gulf Coast, a mysterious teenage girl washes up to shore, and the secrets of Mississippi's Sister Island crawl to the surface. Dorrie (Kathleen York), a young doctor living with her mother (Karen Black), assumes custody of the unknown girl (Erin Buchanan) and names her Camille. Terrified and unable to speak, Camille spends her days hiding underneath the dining room table. But when Dorrie unearths a series of curious circumstances surrounding Camille's past, a shocking mystery comes unraveled.
Jersey Callum
Terror en la Morgue (The Boneyard) es un gran clásico del género de terror donde un policía y una vidente investigan la pista de un crimen que los lleva a una morgue en donde los cadáveres de tres niñas orientales parecen revivir para convertirse en fétidos demonios carnívoros.
General Stone
En las afueras de King Bee, Texas, descarrila un tren militar. Una caja de madera cae al río, siendo arrastrada por el agua. Zeke Robinson es un adolescente problemático, que caminando por la orilla del río, encuentra casualmente la caja. Al abrirla, descubre que se trata de una pistola de extraño diseño, creyendo el chico que sin duda, son sus amigos los extraterrestres que le han dejado semejante ingenio. En realidad se trata de un super-arma secreta que dispara rayos mortales y que ahora se encuentra en las manos inconscientes del chico.
Victor Handler
A lawyer who is defending an accused murderer, is told by his client the whereabouts of the bodies. However, being his lawyer, he is unable to reveal this information.
Governor Neilson
La academia está a punto de desaparecer. Para evitarlo, la única solución es luchar por su supervivencia contra su competidora, la academia del comandante Mauser.
Dr. Michael Rossi
Another attempt to bring the 1960s primetime serial back to network television
George Dobbs
An unmarried career woman decides she wants a baby and finds a suitable partner, a sportswriter working for the magazine she publishes. After she maneuvers him into proposing marriage to her, she learns that he happens to be sterile.
Carl Strickland
A social worker tries to break up a ring of crooks who buy newborn babies from teenaged mothers and sell them to couples who can't obtain them through legal adoption channels.
President Harry S. Truman
The story of Col. Paul Tibbets and his crew who flew the Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, bringing World War II to a close.
Mike Danvers
Private detective Frank Cannon comes out of retirement to investigate an old friend and Army Intelligence colleague's death, which has been ruled a suicide, but which smells like murder.
Joseph Locordolos
After inheriting a magical gold watch from his multimillionaire uncle's estate, Robert Hays and his girlfriend, Pam Dawber, soon discover not only that he can stop time with the watch, but also that it holds the secret to his late uncle's fortune -- a secret that others fall over themselves trying to steal.
Mark Kane
The story of a divorced woman who begins an affair with the college-age son of her best friend, and the effects it has on her relationship with her own son, who is not much younger than her lover.
Philip Mulwray
True story recounting the crash of Eastern Airlines flight 401, which crashed in the Everglades while on approach to Miami in December 1972. Accurate in many respects, the movie goes through the events leading up to the crash, the crash itself, and the rescue effort afterwards.
Mr. Clarkson
Paul, un joven atleta, queda paralítico y es abandonado por su novia. Aprenderá a aceptar su impedimento y a luchar contra él. En la granja de su abuelo, el destino le dará una segunda oportunidad.
Dr. Mike Wise
Two heart surgeons clash over personal issues and medical ethics in a big-city hospital.
George Beldridge
It's the biggest event of the year — the Super Bowl! But the star players for the Cougars, gathered in New Orleans for the big game, are preoccupied with some serious off-the-field issues. Dave Walecki's marriage to his wife Nancy is falling apart, while Jim McCauley is involved in a shady deal with a management firm that could destroy his career. But that's nothing compared to the real drama. There's an assassin killing off many of the team's personnel (as well as their chances of winning)!
Dr. Michael Rossi
A former resident of the town of Peyton Place, now wealthy and powerful, secretly returns to the town and sets in motion a spate of killings designed as revenge for past wrongs.
Chandler Dietrich
Benji gets lost after a flight overseas and becomes a stray in Athens, Greece. He then tries everyday to reunite with his family while mysterious people pursue him, in a race to get a code which was secretly tattooed on his paw at the airport. But who are the bad guys and who are the agents that can be trusted? Will Benji and his kids and their nanny ever get to enjoy their vacation?
Admiral Harry Pearson
Segunda Guerra Mundial. En el verano de 1942 empezó la guerra naval, en la que norteamericanos y japoneses se enfrentaron por el dominio del Pacífico. Mientras la flota de portaaviones japoneses luchaba para tomar Midway y destruir las naves enemigas, las fuerzas estadounidenses, formadas por tres portaaviones y numerosos barcos de apoyo, intentaban resistir el envite.
Ray Hollister
In this rollicking adventure set on the high seas, an innocent insurance agent working on the beautiful Hawaiian island of Kauai, is framed as a drug smuggler. He gets help from a most unlikely source - the town drunk who knows more than anyone suspects.
Dimwitted, meaty guy foils criminals by turning invisible.
Carlton James
Record executives want a highly-regarded record producer to focus on a white pop act whom they feel has the sound America wants. To keep his creative integrity, Buckmaster carefully begins to fight the system that has made him the respected producer he has become.
An emotionally disturbed teenager whose father is a research scientist takes a rat from his father's laboratory that is infected with an incurable virus that can kill 100 million people in three weeks.
Major John Alexander
Cuando un Jumbo 747 colisiona contra una avioneta pilotada por un hombre de negocios que acaba de sufrir un infarto, el pánico se apodera de los pasajeros. Muertos los pilotos a causa del choque, la azafata Nancy Pryor, recibe instrucciones por radio para poder hacerse cargo de la situación.
Lt. Calvin Zenger
A police lieutenant’s routine Sunday afternoon is interrupted by the deaths of a hoodlum and a socialite.
Gene Kranz, Flight Director
NASA must devise a strategy to return Apollo 13 to Earth safely after the spacecraft undergoes massive internal damage putting the lives of the three astronauts on board in jeopardy.
Paul Reston
Una mujer mata a la esposa de su amante y urde un plan para que su marido sea acusado del asesinato.
Nick Staffo
A group of skiers are trapped inside a runaway train hurtling down a mountainside.
Warren Cole
A conflicted teen lashes out by vandalizing equipment at the nuclear plant where his father works, then hits the road and finds a spiritual path.
Carl Nesbitt
A wealthy former mental patient goes home to her estate to rest and recuperate. While walking the grounds one day she hears the screams of a woman coming from underneath the ground. Her family, however, refuses to believe her story, and sees the incident as an opportunity to prove the woman's mind has snapped so they can take control of her money.
A student is held up in the library while a riot rages outside. As SDS protesters head to burn the library down, he has to fend them off with his baseball bat. This film opens with actual footage of civil disturbances in the 1960s, and moves on to images of historical American figures.
Paul Hamilton
A hostile youngster who will stop at nothing to break up his mother's marriage is suspected of homicide, and his stepfather fears that he may be the boy's next victim.
Dr. Martin Becker
Dr. Janet Furie comes to believe that her husband and fellow scientist were set up to die in a lab accident. She blames another scientist, not only for the murder but also for taking credit for her husband's groundbreaking work. When she can't prove her husband was murdered, she spins a web of intrigue and deceit that results in the suspected scientist being framed for another murder that never actually happened.
Cole Marteen
Circuit-riding Texas lawyer Timothy Higgins defends a former girlfriend against a murder charge stemming from an extortionist's threat to reveal her shady past. Through adroit courtroom work, Higgins is able to acquit her and reveal who actually shot the fatal bullet.
James Priest
El sargento de suministros Eustis Clay trata a diario de convencer a su compafiero el sargento Maxwell Slaughter para que, una vez abandonado el ejercito, se alien en una union empresarial imbatible gracias a las disparatadas ideas de negocio de Eustis y al buen saber hacer empresarial de Maxwell. Pero ademas de sus planes de futuro, Eustis desea ayudar a Maxwell en su vida personal por lo que decide presentarle a su guapa y jovencisima amiga Baby Jo Pepperdine y ver si es posible que surja una amistad entre ellos. Por otra parte, Eustis tambien pretende aprovechar las cualidades atleticas de su amigo el soldado Jerry Meltzer. Los dias van pasando en la base military poco a poco Eustis ve mas cercano el anhelado dia en que vuelva a ser un civil...
Captain at Nightclub Announcing Call-up of Officers (uncredited)
En 1948, tres años después del final de la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), cuatro jueces, cómplices de la política nazi de esterilización y limpieza étnica, van a ser juzgados en Nuremberg. Sobre Dan Haywood (Spencer Tracy), un juez norteamericano retirado, recae la importante responsabilidad de presidir este juicio contra los crímenes de guerra nazis.
Nick Richards / Pete Jensen
An old man sells his soul to the devil, and turns into a young man. He then uses witchcraft and black magic to win a woman from his rival.
An ex-mafioso moves to Mexico to become a writer, revealing mob secrets in his books which are met with understandable displeasure. He is soon pursued by hit-men as well as the FBI, who need his testimony in a court case.
Dino Michaelis
Wayne, Jan, and Dino try pulling off a heist of a lumber company's payroll, and everything seems to go wrong right from the beginning, in spite of Dino's expertise. The trio take off for the woods in Canada with Wayne suffering from a wound and the law in hot pursuit. To complicate matters slightly there is a romantic tie-up with Jan, someone too tough and efficient to be easily won over.
Art Lacroix
Un camarero aficionado a la escultura tiene la gran idea de hacer una escultura usando el cuerpo muerto de un gato. Encantado con el resultado de su idea, decide aplicarla en cuerpos humanos, que él mismo se encarga procurarse asesinando a sus futuros modelos.
Alex Hendricks
A high school boy, out to find his father's killer, joins up with a gang of juvenile delinquents.
Norm Britt
Two high-school teenagers on their way to Mexico to get married cross paths with a homicidal fugitive.
Producer
Suceden cosas extrañas en Riverdale, Illinois. Se ha encontrado, semienterrada, una estructura enorme que parecería ser de origen alienígena. El senador Walter Powers (Jack Hill) y el Dr. Paul Kettering (Edwin Nelson), encargados de investigar el origen de ese objeto misterioso, descubren que los parásitos provenientes del centro de la tierra, que se aferran al cuello de sus víctimas para controlar sus cerebros, se han infiltrado en la ciudad y ahora controlan a las autoridades y a los trabajadores e impiden la comunicación con el exterior. Powers, Kettering y un grupo de personas libres deberán frenar la invasión.
Dr. Paul Kettering
Suceden cosas extrañas en Riverdale, Illinois. Se ha encontrado, semienterrada, una estructura enorme que parecería ser de origen alienígena. El senador Walter Powers (Jack Hill) y el Dr. Paul Kettering (Edwin Nelson), encargados de investigar el origen de ese objeto misterioso, descubren que los parásitos provenientes del centro de la tierra, que se aferran al cuello de sus víctimas para controlar sus cerebros, se han infiltrado en la ciudad y ahora controlan a las autoridades y a los trabajadores e impiden la comunicación con el exterior. Powers, Kettering y un grupo de personas libres deberán frenar la invasión.
Rick Connor
El joven de 17 años Jimmy Walker (Jack Nicholson, en su debut cinematográfico) es brutamente golpeado por Manny Cole (Brett Halsey) y dos de sus jóvenes amigos debido a que Manny ha intentado propasarse con la novia de Jimmy, Carole Fields (Carolyn Mitchell). Más tarde, Jimmy desafía a Manny a una pelea. Los dos amigos de Manny se acercan a pelear, y a uno de ellos se le cae un arma. Jimmy la toma y dispara contra Manny y uno de sus compañeros.
Guard (uncredited)
Two brothers, one wanted for murder, are shipwrecked on an island inhabited by nubile young women who have amassed a valuable cache of pearls.
Dave Randall
An astronaut is killed on re-entry to Earth, but his body is seeded with rapidly-gestating aliens.
Blonde Tribe Member
Boy (Robert Vaughn) es un adolescente cuya tribu tiene prohibido sobrepasar los confines del árido y desolado valle donde vive, valle que limita con un país mucho más rico en vegetación y fauna. Según sus creencias, allí vive “el Dios que da muerte con su contacto”, y los espíritus asesinan con sus hechizos a los que se aventuran a llegar hasta allí. El valiente Boy, que no teme las supersticiones, decide cruzar la frontera para investigar el misterio de la muerte de sus compañeros de tribu.
Police Officer 'Dutch' / Blind Man
The Black Widows, a teenage girl gang, find one of their number killed; they suspect Barbara, sometime girlfriend of the leader of rival gang The Vandals. As the gangs prepare for a rumble, we glimpse the members' home lives, exaggerating every type of family dysfunction; but that of their "average American" quarry is no better. Full of shadowy urban night scenes.
Cannon
An ocean-side nightclub owner loves a singer who only has eyes for a gambler.
Etienne (as Edwin Nelson)
A community of Cajun fishermen living around a remote bayou includes one authentic beauty, Marie, who wants to better herself but must deal with the unwelcome attentions of storekeeper Ulysses. When she meets Martin Davis, visiting New York architect, they hit it off at once; but the sinister Ulysses is not inclined to suffer a Yankee rival.
Tom
Un buscafortunas que viaja en su coche vislumbra el aterrizaje de un platillo volante. Poco después, una pareja de adolescentes atropella por error a un extraterrestre.
Pete
Cloud Nine, the local teen hangout, has been taken over by a pair of escaped killers, who hold the local teens hostage. The bartender realizes it's up to him to save the kids.
Special Effects
Un grupo de científicos viaja a una isla remota para estudiar los efectos de las pruebas de armas nucleares, solo para quedar varado cuando su avión explota misteriosamente. El equipo pronto descubre que las pruebas han dado lugar a cangrejos mutados en gigantes inteligentes, impermeables y telepáticos que intentan aumentar su número mediante la cría y luego viajar a áreas pobladas para alimentarse, y que no pretenden ser detenidos por sus descubridores.
Ensign Quinlan
Un grupo de científicos viaja a una isla remota para estudiar los efectos de las pruebas de armas nucleares, solo para quedar varado cuando su avión explota misteriosamente. El equipo pronto descubre que las pruebas han dado lugar a cangrejos mutados en gigantes inteligentes, impermeables y telepáticos que intentan aumentar su número mediante la cría y luego viajar a áreas pobladas para alimentarse, y que no pretenden ser detenidos por sus descubridores.
Police Sergeant
An undercover policewoman helps three female convicts escape from prison so that they can lead her to a stash of stolen diamonds hidden in a swamp.
Charlie
William Castle directed this Sam Katzman production, a gritty crime thriller about a newly-discharged sailor who gets a job as a longshoreman in The Big Easy. He swiftly discovers mob corruption throughout the docks, and when a friend is killed by the gangsters, he convinces the police to let him go undercover and take matters into his own hands. Filmed on location on the docks and in the French Quarter.
