Barry nelson

Barry Nelson was born on April 16, 1920 in Oakland, California. His death came to him on April 7, about to turn 87 years old. His life as an actor went through film, television and theater, the latter being the stage that would bring him the most success and to which he would feel most attached. He made his Broadway debut in 1943 and was nominated for a Tony in 1978 for his work in “The Act.” The reality of him as a theater actor did not prevent him from participating in numerous titles, between film and television, where he combined secondary roles with the odd lead. Just graduated from the University of California, Barry Nelson was hired by Metro, for whom he worked on titles such as Shadow of the Thin Man (1941) or Forbidden Path (1942), with Robert Taylor andLana Turner . Her film experience includes a diversity of genres and work with big names in cinema such as director Fred Zinnemann in the thriller Eyes in the Night (1942); Victor Fleming in Two in Heaven (1943), where she co-starred with Spencer Tracy ; George Cukor in the war drama Rendezvous in Heaven (1944); Ginger Rogers in the western The First Traveling Salesday (1956); Debbie Reynolds in the comedy Mary, Mary (1963); or Walter Matthau in Laughter and Tears(1972). He was also the pilot of the plane that crashed in Airport (1970), an icon of disaster cinema with Burt Lancaster as the protagonist. His last film was Stanley Kubrick ‘s The Shining (1980) , where he was the hotel manager who hires Jack Nicholson ‘s character to be his watchman during the winter. Away from the movies, Nelson participated in series like Dallas and Murder, She Wrote . Titles that he would unite with previous ones such as Alfred Hitchcock Presents , Battlestar Galactica , Holidays at Sea , or Los Ropers. Nelson was linked to television for many years, and it was precisely this medium that gave him the anecdote of his career, which would end up becoming what an Associated Press writer has called “the answer to a trivial question”: “Who Was he the first actor to play James Bond? Barry Nelson.” Thanks to his work in Casino Royale (1954), it is the answer to what a priori seems like a simple question. Nelson was 007 in this television product that was an episode of the Climax series , 53 years before Daniel Craig donned his tuxedo to revisit the work of Ian Fleming .