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Occupation
  
Actor

Name
  
Kenneth Nelson

Role
  
Actor


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Born
  
March 24, 1930 (
1930-03-24
)
Rocky Mount, North Carolina, United States

Died
  
October 7, 1993, London, United Kingdom

Nominations
  
Golden Globe Award for Best New Star of the Year – Actor

Movies and TV shows
  
The Boys in the Band, Hellraiser, The Aldrich Family

Similar People
  
Mart Crowley, William Friedkin, Clive Barker, Tony Randel

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Kenneth Nelson (March 24, 1930 – October 7, 1993) was an American actor.

Contents

Born in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, Nelson appeared in several television series in the late 1940s, Captain Video and His Video Rangers and The Aldrich Family among them. He was cast in his first Broadway show, Seventeen, a musical adaptation of the Booth Tarkington novel that opened at the Broadhurst Theatre on June 21, 1951 and ran 182 performances.

In 1960, Nelson was cast in an off-Broadway show entitled The Fantasticks, which eventually became the world's longest-running musical with 17,162 performances. In 1962, he was hired to understudy Anthony Newley in Stop the World - I Want to Get Off when it transferred from the West End, eventually assuming the lead role when the star departed the show. From there, he went to another London import, Half a Sixpence, in 1965.

In 1968, Nelson accepted the lead in the controversial and groundbreaking off-Broadway production of The Boys in the Band, the first play to explore the milieu of gay life in New York City in a verbally frank manner. He and the rest of the cast went on to appear in the 1970 film version directed by William Friedkin.

Also in 1970 Nelson returned to Broadway in the lead role in Lovely Ladies, Kind Gentlemen, a musical adaptation of The Teahouse of the August Moon. It was a critical and commercial disaster, closing after only 19 performances. After settling in England in 1971, he played opposite Cleo Laine in "Showboat" and "Colette" on the West End stage, and appeared in "Annie" and "42d Street." In 1974, he played a leading role in the highly successful revue Cole at London's Mermaid Theatre. In 1985 he played sinister nuclear entrepreneur Jerry Grogan in Edge of Darkness, the seminal BBC thriller series written by Troy Kennedy Martin, and had roles in the Clive Barker horror films Hellraiser (1987) and Nightbreed (1990).

Nelson spent much of the later part of his career in small roles on television and in movies. Nelson died in 1993 of AIDS-related complications in London.

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Filmography

Actor
1993
The Last Leaf (Short) as
Villager
1990
Nightbreed as
Emergency Doctor
1989
Red King, White Knight (TV Movie) as
Senator
1987
Hellraiser as
Bill
1987
Hold the Dream (TV Mini Series) as
Marriot Watson
- Episode #1.1 (1987) - Marriot Watson
1986
Cuban Breeze (Short) as
Larry Steiner
1986
Lost Empires (TV Mini Series) as
Hank Johnson
- Episode #1.3 (1986) - Hank Johnson
- Episode #1.2 (1986) - Hank Johnson
1985
Edge of Darkness (TV Mini Series) as
Grogan
- Fusion (1985) - Grogan
- Northmoor (1985) - Grogan
- Burden of Proof (1985) - Grogan
1985
Lace II (TV Movie) as
Interviewer at Premiere
1984
Fox Mystery Theater (TV Series) as
Jack
- Last Video and Testament (1984) - Jack
1984
Lace (TV Mini Series) as
New York Hotel Manager
- Episode #1.2 (1984) - New York Hotel Manager
- Episode #1.1 (1984) - New York Hotel Manager
1983
Reilly: Ace of Spies (TV Mini Series) as
Auctioneer
- The Trust (1983) - Auctioneer
1983
The Lonely Lady as
Bud Weston
1980
BBC2 Playhouse (TV Series) as
American Newsman
- Hallelujah, Mary Plum (1980) - American Newsman
1978
The Professionals (TV Series) as
The American
- Heroes (1978) - The American (uncredited)
1977
The Rag Trade (TV Series) as
Mr. Glenn
- Olive's Baby (1977) - Mr. Glenn
1977
The Brute as
Psychiatrist
1974
2nd House (TV Series) as
Actor in Cole
- The Juniper Tree (1974) - Actor in Cole
1970
The Games as
Frat Boy in Drinking Contest
1970
The Boys in the Band as
Michael
1960
Hooray for Love (TV Movie)
1954
Ponds Theater (TV Series) as
Young Hugo
- One Sunday Afternoon (1954) - Young Hugo
1952
Invitation as
Tennis Player (uncredited)
1949
The Aldrich Family (TV Series) as
Henry Aldrich #4 (1952)
1949
Captain Video and His Video Rangers (TV Series) as
Ranger Colt
Soundtrack
1995
The Celluloid Closet (Documentary) (performer: "Get Happy " - uncredited)
Self
1979
The Alan Hamel Show (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode dated 7 February 1979 (1979) - Self
1970
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode dated 29 December 1970 (1970) - Self
- Episode dated 5 May 1970 (1970) - Self
1970
The Mike Douglas Show (TV Series) as
Self - Broadway Actor
- Episode #9.252 (1970) - Self - Broadway Actor
1958
The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar (TV Series) as
Self
- Kay Thompson, Rita Gardner, Evelyn Rudie, Kenneth Nelson, Jerry Herman (1958) - Self
Archive Footage
2011
Making the Boys (Documentary) as
Michael

References

Kenneth Nelson Wikipedia