David Nelson

David Nelson

Born: October 24, 1936
Died: January 11, 2011
in New York City, New York, USA
David Oswald Nelson (October 24, 1936 – January 11, 2011) was an American actor. He was the elder son of entertainment couple Harriet Hilliard Nelson and Ozzie Nelson and the older brother of musician Ricky Nelson.

Nelson's acting career started in 1949 when he and his brother began playing themselves on his parents' radio series The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, which lasted until 1954. His film debut came in Here Come the Nelsons, released in 1952.

Also in 1952 Nelson continued playing himself on the television version of The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, which ran until 1966.Starting in the early 1960s, he directed about a dozen episodes of the show.

From the 1970s through 1990 Nelson had roles in Smash-Up on Interstate 5, Up In Smoke, The Love Boat, High School U.S.A., and A Family for Joe. Nelson's last film appearance was in John Waters' 1990 film Cry-Baby.

Nelson died on January 11, 2011, in Century City, California, of complications of colon cancer.

Movies for David Nelson...

Television: The First Fifty Years
Title: Television: The First Fifty Years
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1999
Type: Movie
Trace the history of television and its impact on American culture with clips, newsreels, and exclusive interviews from television greats like Walter Cronkite, Carol Burnett, and Jay Leno.
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The Courtyard
Title: The Courtyard
Character: Cop
Released: September 24, 1995
Type: Movie
Architect Jonathan moves into an LA courtyard apartment complex; then one of his neighbors is murdered ... by mistake ... Jonathan was the intended victim!
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Cry-Baby
Title: Cry-Baby
Character: Wanda's Father
Released: April 6, 1990
Type: Movie
A prim and proper schoolgirl goes against her society grandmother's wishes when she dates a motorcycle-riding juvenile delinquent.
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Off the Mark
Title: Off the Mark
Character: Current Resident
Released: November 1, 1987
Type: Movie
A teenaged boy's family once hosted a Russian exchange student in their home for a year. Several years later, as adults, the two find themselves competing against each other in a Triathlon competition.
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High School U.S.A.
Title: High School U.S.A.
Character: Mr. Krinsky, Janitor
Released: October 16, 1983
Type: Movie
Set in a senior high school class, J.J. pursues the girlfriend of a rival from a higher clique which culminates in a race at the end of the movie between the two rivals in this light comedy.
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In Search of Historic Jesus
Title: In Search of Historic Jesus
Character: Leper
Released: August 1, 1979
Type: Movie
Re-created Biblical tableaux mixed with interviews.
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Up in Smoke
Title: Up in Smoke
Character: Roxy Doorman
Released: May 16, 1978
Type: Movie
An unemployed pot-smoking slacker and amateur drummer, Anthony Stoner ditches his strict parents and hits the road, eventually meeting kindred spirit Pedro de Pacas. While the drug-ingesting duo is soon arrested for possession of marijuana, Anthony and Pedro get released on a technicality, allowing them to continue their many misadventures and ultimately compete in a rock band contest, where they perform the raucous tune "Earache My Eye."
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Title: The Love Boat
Character: Gary Gage
Released: September 24, 1977
Type: TV
Passengers who search for romantic nights aboard a beautiful ship travelling to tropical or mysterious countries, decide to pass their vacation aboard the "Love Boat", where Gopher, Dr. Bricker, Isaac, Julie, and Captain Stubing try their best to please them, and sometimes help them fall in love. Things are not always so easy, but in the end, love wins.
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Smash-Up on Interstate 5
Title: Smash-Up on Interstate 5
Character: Berman
Released: February 2, 1976
Type: Movie
In this made-for-TV disaster movie, the lives of a group of motorists are chronicled retrospectively after they're involved in a 39-car pile-up on California's Interstate 5 over 4th of July weekend.
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Sonic Boom
Title: Sonic Boom
Character: Co-Pilot
Released: January 1, 1974
Type: Movie
Comedy short about a supersonic jet that lands in a small town and creates hysteria about an impending sonic boom that never happens.
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Swing Out, Sweet Land
Title: Swing Out, Sweet Land
Character: Union Soldier
Released: January 1, 1970
Type: Movie
John Wayne and an all-star cast tell the story of America.
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The Movie Orgy
Title: The Movie Orgy
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1968
Type: Movie
Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels, bloopers, satirical short films and promotional and government films of the 1950s and 1960s are intercut together to tell a single story of various creatures and societal ills attacking American cities.
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Title: Hondo
Released: September 8, 1967
Type: TV
Hondo is a 17-episode Western television series starring Ralph Taeger that aired in the United States on ABC during the 1967 fall season. The series was produced by Batjac Productions, Inc., Fenady Associates, Inc., and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Television.
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Love and Kisses
Title: Love and Kisses
Character: Cameo Appearance
Released: August 5, 1965
Type: Movie
Two teenagers elope and take up residence at the groom's home with his parents and sister, but the newlyweds quickly discover married life is much different from high-school.
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Title: The Hollywood Palace
Character: Self - Trapeze Artist
Released: January 4, 1964
Type: TV
The Hollywood Palace is an hour-long American television variety show that was broadcast weekly on ABC from January 4, 1964 to February 7, 1970. Originally titled The Saturday Night Hollywood Palace, it began as a mid-season replacement for The Jerry Lewis Show, another variety show which had lasted only three months. It was staged in Hollywood at the former Hollywood Playhouse on Vine Street, which was renamed The Hollywood Palace during the show's duration and is today known as Avalon Hollywood. A little-known starlet named Raquel Welch was cast during the first season as the "Billboard Girl", who placed the names of the acts on a placard.
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The Big Show
Title: The Big Show
Character: Eric Solden
Released: May 10, 1961
Type: Movie
A European circus family is torn apart by greed and jealousy.
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-30-
Title: -30-
Character: Earl Collins
Released: November 11, 1959
Type: Movie
A newspaper editor deals with a particularly stressful day in the newsroom.
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The Big Circus
Title: The Big Circus
Character: Tommy Gordon
Released: July 5, 1959
Type: Movie
A circus owner tries to keep his financially troubled circus on the road, despite the efforts of a murderous saboteur who has decided that the show must not go on.
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Day of the Outlaw
Title: Day of the Outlaw
Character: Gene, Bruhn's Gang
Released: July 1, 1959
Type: Movie
Blaise Starrett is a rancher at odds with homesteaders when outlaws hold up the small town. The outlaws are held in check only by their notorious leader, but he is diagnosed with a fatal wound and the town is a powder keg waiting to blow.
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Disneyland '59
Title: Disneyland '59
Character: Self
Released: June 15, 1959
Type: Movie
Walt Disney and Art Linkletter co-host a live celebration of Disneyland's 1959 expansion that consisted of the debuts of Matterhorn Bobsleds, the Disneyland-Alweg Monorail, and the Submarine Voyage, a project so massive that it was called "The Second Opening of Disneyland". Highlights include a mammoth, star-studded parade and the official launching of the Disneyland submarines by U.S. Navy officers. Among the guests are then-Vice-President Richard Nixon and family, Clint Eastwood, and Meredith Willson, who leads the Disneyland band in his own "76 Trombones." Sponsored by Kodak, the commercial spokespersons include Ozzie and Harriet Nelson.
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The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker
Title: The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker
Character: Henry Pennypacker
Released: February 20, 1959
Type: Movie
In early 1900s' Pennsylvania, Mr. Pennypacker has two company offices and two families with a combined total of 17 children. With an office in Harrisburg and an office in Philadelphia, he has successfully kept two separate homes. However, when an emergency requires his oldest son to find him, Mr. Pennypacker's dual life is revealed.
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Peyton Place
Title: Peyton Place
Character: Ted Carter
Released: December 13, 1957
Type: Movie
In the outwardly respectable New England community of Peyton Place, shopkeeper Constance McKenzie tries to make up for a past indiscretion -- which resulted in her illegitimate daughter Allison -- by adopting a chaste, prudish attitude towards all things sexual. In spite of herself, Constance can't help but be attracted to handsome new teacher Michael Rossi. Meanwhile, the restless Allison, who'd like to be as footloose and fancy-free as the town's "fast girl" Betty Anderson, falls sincerely in love with mixed-up mama's boy Norman Page.
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Title: The Steve Allen Show
Character: Self - Recipient
Released: June 24, 1956
Type: TV
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Title: The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet
Character: David
Released: October 3, 1952
Type: TV
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet is an American sitcom, airing on ABC from October 3, 1952 through March 26, 1966, starring the real life Nelson family. After a long run on radio, the show was brought to television where it continued its success, running on both radio and television for a few years. The series stars Ozzie Nelson and his wife, singer Harriet Nelson, and their young sons, David and Eric "Ricky" Nelson. Don DeFore had a recurring role as the Nelsons' friendly neighbor "Thorny".
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Here Come the Nelsons
Title: Here Come the Nelsons
Character: David Nelson
Released: February 23, 1952
Type: Movie
The homespun Nelson family must deal with various comical situations, including an encounter with gangsters.
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An LA Christmas Story
Title: An LA Christmas Story
Character: Comedy Club Patron
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
When Sophie, a well-known internet lifestyle video blogger, posts a video searching for a "man who's not an idiot" after a break-up a month before Christmas, the video goes viral and her life is comically up-heaved into many hilarious situations. She ultimately meets Danny, a struggling stand-up comic and actor. Will the two find love deep in the heart of the craziness of Los Angeles? Find out in the edgy romantic comedy that centers itself around the most wonderful time of the year.