Gene Nelson
Gene Nelson was an American dancer, actor, screenwriter, and director. Born Leander Eugene Berg in Astoria, Oregon, his family moved to Seattle when he was a year old. He was inspired to become a dancer by watching Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers when he was a child. After serving in the Army during World War II during which he also performed in the musical This Is the Army, Nelson landed his first Broadway role in Lend an Ear, for which he received the Theatre World Award. He also appeared onstage in Follies, which garnered him a Tony Award nomination, and Good News. Nelson's longtime professional dance partner during the 1950s was actress JoAnn Dean Killingsworth.
Gene Nelson co-starred with Doris Day in "Lullaby of Broadway" in 1951. He played Will Parker in the film Oklahoma!
In 1959, he appeared in Northwest Passage as a young man trying to prove his innocence in a murder case. Nelson appeared on the March 17, 1960 episode of "You Bet Your Life", hosted by Groucho Marx. He and Groucho's daughter, Melinda, performed a dance number together.
Nelson directed eight episodes of The Rifleman in the 1961-62 season, the original Star Trek, the first season of I Dream of Jeannie, Gunsmoke, The Silent Force, and The San Pedro Beach Bums. He directed the Elvis Presley films Kissin' Cousins, which screenplay he wrote, and Harum Scarum. For the Kissin' Cousins screenplay he received a WGA award nomination for best written musical. He later taught in the Theater Arts Department at San Francisco State University in the late 1980s.
He starred as Buddy in the 1971 Broadway musical Follies, for which he received a 1972 Tony Award nomination for Featured Actor In A Musical. The production featured a score by Stephen Sondheim and was co-directed by Michael Bennett and Harold Prince.
For contribution to the motion picture industry, in 1990, Nelson was inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Nelson's star is located at 7005 Hollywood Boulevard.
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Fotos
Películas (37)
S.O.B.
1981 · Clive Lytell
The Letters
1973 · Director
A Brand New Life
1973 · Harry
Family Flight
1972 · Aircraft Carrier Captain
Wake Me When the War Is Over
1969 · Director, Producer
The Cool Ones
1967 · Director
Where's Everett?
1966 · Director
Harum Scarum
1965 · Director
Your Cheatin' Heart
1964 · Director
Kissin' Cousins
1964 · Director, Screenplay
Archie
1964 · Director
Thunder Island
1963 · Billy Poole
Hootenanny Hoot!
1963 · Director
Hand of Death
1962 · Director
The Purple Hills
1961 · Gil Shepard
20,000 Eyes
1961 · Dan Warren
A Man's Game
1957 · Tom Watts
Dial 999
1955 · Greg Carradine
Timeslip
1955 · Mike Delaney
Oklahoma!
1955 · Will Parker
So This Is Paris
1954 · Al Howard
Three Sailors and a Girl
1953 · Twitch
Crime Wave
1953 · Steve Lacey
She's Back on Broadway
1953 · Gordon Evans
She's Working Her Way Through College
1952 · Don Weston
Starlift
1951 · Gene Nelson
Painting the Clouds with Sunshine
1951 · Ted
Lullaby of Broadway
1951 · Tom Farnham
The West Point Story
1950 · Hal Courtland
Tea for Two
1950 · Tommy Trainor
The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady
1950 · Doug Martin
The Walls of Jericho
1948 · Legal Assistant
Apartment for Peggy
1948 · Jerry (uncredited)
I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now
1947 · Tommy Yale
This Is the Army
1943 · Soldier (uncredited)
Everything Happens at Night
1939 · Skater
Second Fiddle
1939 · Minor Role
Series (62)
Murder, She Wrote
1984 · Louis Metcalf
Shirley
1979 · Director
Eischied
1979 · Director
Salvage 1
1979 · Director
The American Girls
1978 · Director
Fantasy Island
1978 · Director
The San Pedro Beach Bums
1977 · Director
Quincy, M.E.
1976 · Director
Starsky & Hutch
1975 · Director
The Invisible Man
1975 · Director
Get Christie Love!
1974 · Director
Barnaby Jones
1973 · Director
The Streets of San Francisco
1972
Ghost Story
1972 · Steve
The Rookies
1972 · Director
Cannon
1971 · Director
The Silent Force
1970 · Director
Hawaii Five-O
1969 · Director
Blondie
1968 · Director
The Mod Squad
1968 · Director
Lancer
1968 · Director
Ironside
1967 · Director
Felony Squad
1966 · Director
Star Trek
1966 · Director
The F.B.I.
1965 · Director
I Dream of Jeannie
1965 · Director
Laredo
1965 · Director
F Troop
1965 · Director
Gilligan's Island
1964 · Director
12 O'Clock High
1964 · Director
Destry
1964 · Director
Burke's Law
1963 · Rick Mason, Danny Swift, Director
The Farmer's Daughter
1963 · Director
Vacation Playhouse
1963 · Director
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962 · Self
The Mike Douglas Show
1961 · Self
The Andy Griffith Show
1960 · Director
The Detectives
1959
Philip Marlowe
1959
Law of the Plainsman
1959 · Hardy O'Hara
Men Into Space
1959
The Bell Telephone Hour
1959 · Self
Black Saddle
1959 · Wickes
Rawhide
1959
Bat Masterson
1958 · Whit Morrison
The Rifleman
1958 · Director
The Donna Reed Show
1958 · Director
Maverick
1957 · Jim Hazlit
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957
The Steve Allen Show
1956 · Self - Dancer
The Rosemary Clooney Show
1956 · Self
Matinee Theater
1955
Gunsmoke
1955 · Hob Cannon, Foss, Hutch
The Millionaire
1955 · Lt. Steven Q. Forrest
Climax!
1954 · Jess Shepard
General Electric Theater
1953
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951 · Robert
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
The Colgate Comedy Hour
1950 · Self
Your Show of Shows
1950
Studio One
1948 · Trout
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948 · Self