A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Eugene A. Nelson
Gene Berg
Leander Eugene Berg
Birthplace:
Astoria, Oregon, USA
Born:
March 24, 1920
Died:
September 16, 1996
Gene Nelson was an American dancer, actor, screenwriter, and director. Born Leander Eugene Berg in Astoria, Oregon, he 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gene Nelson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Director:
1962 Hand of Death
1963 Hootenanny Hoot
1964 Archie
1964 Kissin' Cousins
1964 Your Cheatin' Heart
1965 Harum Scarum
1966 Where's Everett?
1967 The Cool Ones
1969 Wake Me When the War Is Over
1973 The Letters
Producer:
1962 Hand of Death
1963 Hootenanny Hoot
1964 Archie
1964 Kissin' Cousins
1964 Your Cheatin' Heart
1965 Harum Scarum
1966 Where's Everett?
1967 The Cool Ones
1969 Wake Me When the War Is Over
1973 The Letters
Screenplay:
1962 Hand of Death
1963 Hootenanny Hoot
1964 Archie
1964 Kissin' Cousins
1964 Your Cheatin' Heart
1965 Harum Scarum
1966 Where's Everett?
1967 The Cool Ones
1969 Wake Me When the War Is Over
1973 The Letters
Director:
1958 The Donna Reed Show
1958 The Rifleman
1960 The Andy Griffith Show
1963 Burke's Law
1963 The Farmer's Daughter
1963 Vacation Playhouse
1964 12 O'Clock High
1964 Destry
1964 Gilligan's Island
1965 F Troop
1965 I Dream of Jeannie
1965 Laredo
1965 The F.B.I.
1966 Felony Squad
1966 Star Trek
1967 Ironside
1968 Blondie
1968 Hawaii Five-O
1968 Lancer
1968 The Mod Squad
1970 The Silent Force
1971 Cannon
1972 The Rookies
1973 Barnaby Jones
1975 Starsky & Hutch
1975 The Invisible Man
1976 Quincy, M.E.
1977 The San Pedro Beach Bums
1978 Fantasy Island
1978 The American Girls
1979 Eischied
1979 Salvage 1
1979 Shirley
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