Kenneth Nelson
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| Kenneth Nelson | |
|---|---|
| Born | March 24, 1930 Rocky Mount, North Carolina, United States |
| Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. London, England, United Kingdom |
| Occupation | Actor |
Kenneth Nelson (March 24, 1930 – October 7, 1993) was an American actor.
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.[1]
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[2] directed by William Friedkin.[3]
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.[4] It was a critical and commercial disaster, closing after only 19 performances. 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.[5]
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External links
- Kenneth Nelson at the Internet Movie Database
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- Kenneth Nelson at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
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- AIDS-related deaths in England
- American expatriates in the United Kingdom
- American male film actors
- American male musical theatre actors
- American male television actors
- Gay actors
- LGBT entertainers from the United States
- Male actors from North Carolina
- People from Rocky Mount, North Carolina
- 1930 births
- 1993 deaths
- 20th-century American male actors
- 20th-century American singers
