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Barry Nelson
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Actor Born: April 16, 1920 in Oakland, CA Death: April 7, 2007 in Bucks County, PA Biography:Of Scandinavian stock, "Barry Nelson" was no sooner graduated from the University of California-Berkeley than he was signed to an MGM contract. Most of his MGM feature-film assignments were supporting roles, though he was given leads in the 1942 "B" "A Yank in Burma" and the 1947 "Crime Does Not Pay" short "The Luckiest Guy in the World". While serving in the Army, Nelson made his Broadway debut in the morale-boosting "Moss Hart" play Winged Victory, repeating his role (and his billing of Corporal Barry Nelson) in the 1944 film version. Full stardom came Nelson's way in such Broadway productions of the 1950s and 1960s as The Rat Race, The Moon is Blue and Cactus Flower. He repeated his Broadway role in the 1963 film version of "Mary Mary", and both directed and acted in "Frank Gilroy"'s two-character play "The Only Game in Town" (1968). Nelson starred in a trio of 1950s TV series: the 1952... Full Biography
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