Actor
Ed Nelson
December 21, 1928 · New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
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.
Notable work
6.9Runaway Jury (2003)
as George Dressler
5.8Police Academy 3: Back in Training (1986)
as Governor Neilson
8.5The Twilight Zone (1959)
as Philip Redfield
7.2Who Am I? (1998)
as General Sharman
8Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
as Captain at Nightclub Announcing Call-up of Officers (uncredited)
7.7MacGyver (1985)
as Arthur Bandel
7.5Murder, She Wrote (1984)
as Raymond 'Ray' Bascomb and as Judge Willard Clinton and as Henry Post and as Mayor Albert Simpson and as Carl Turnball
6.6Midway (1976)
as Admiral Harry Pearson
7.6Mission: Impossible (1966)
as Van Cleve
5.8Airport 1975 (1974)
as Major John Alexander
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