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Barry Nelson 04.16.1917 - 04.07.2007 (90 years old)

Barry Nelson (April 16, 1917 – April 7, 2007)[2] was an American actor, noted as the first actor to portray Ian Fleming's secret agent James Bond As an MGM contract player, Nelson made his screen debut in the role as Paul Clark in Shadow of the Thin Man (1941) starring William Powell and Myrna Loy, with Donna Reed.[8] He followed that with his role as Lew Rankin in the film noir crime/drama Johnny Eager (1942) starring Robert Taylor and Lana Turner.[9] He played the lead in an MGM second feature war film A Yank on the Burma Road. (1942) He also appeared opposite Lauren Bacall in the Abe Burrows comedy Cactus Flower in 1965[2] and with Dorothy Loudon in The Fig Leaves Are Falling in 1969. Another Broadway role, that of Gus Hammer in The Rat Race (1949),[10] kept Nelson away from the movies again, but after it closed he starred in the dual roles as Chick Graham and Bert Rand in The Man with My Face (1951), which was produced by Ed Gardner of radio fame. He was the first actor to play James Bond on screen, in a 1954 adaptation of Ian Fleming's novel Casino Royale on the television anthology series Climax! (preceding Sean Connery's interpretation in Dr. No by eight years)He was the first actor to play James Bond on screen, in a 1954 adaptation of Ian Fleming's novel Casino Royale on the television anthology series Climax! (preceding Sean Connery's interpretation in Dr. No by eight years) He appeared in 1 episode of Radio Mystery Theater.

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This actor appeared in the following radio shows

Series	Episode title	Date
Duffy's Tavern	duffy's tavern (382) archie buys a radio station (with barry nelson)	1950-09-21
cbs radio mystery theater	the suicide club	1974-05-07

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Nelson, Barry (birth name was Robert Haakon Neilson) Born in Oakland, California 4/16/1920. Died 4/7/2007 at a hotel in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. At the time of his death, he maintained homes in New York and France. Married and divorced to Teresa Celli (1951-?); Nansilee Hoy (1992-2007 his death). On stage at the 1939 San Francisco Exposition. Graduated from the University of Califronia at Berkeley in 1941. Actor on radio before he became a contract player at MGM, making his screen debut playing Paul Clark in The Shadow Of The Thin Man (1941). Served in the US Army during WWII, making his Broadway debut in the 1943 Army Air Corp's production of Moss Hart's Winged Victory. Last movie was playing Stuart Ullman in The Shining (1980).

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Television actor from the early 1950s to the late 1980s. Nelson was the first actor to play James Bond when he was a guest on Climax for CBS-TV in the telecast of Ian Fleming's Casino Royale (1954). Bart Adams on The Hunter for CBS-TV (1952-1954). George Cooper on My Favorite Husband for CBS-TV (1953-1957). Bob Bailey in the ABC-TV miniseries, Washington: Behind Closed Doors (1977). He has a Star on the Walk of Fame, located at 6253 Hollywood Blvd.

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Barry Nelson (born Robert Haakon Nielsen, April 16, 1917 – April 7, 2007)[2] was an American actor, noted as the first actor to portray Ian Fleming's secret agent James Bon Nelson made his screen debut in the role as Paul Clark in Shadow of the Thin Man (1941).He followed that with his role as Lew Rankin in the film noir Johnny Eager (1942).

Adams

During his service in the United States Army in World War II, Nelson debuted on the Broadway stage in Moss Hart's play Winged Victory (1943) in the role of Bobby Grills. His next Broadway appearance was as Peter Sloan in Hart's Light Up the Sky (1948)

Adams

During the play's run, he also starred in a CBS half-hour drama called The Hunter, premiering in July 1952. He played Bart Adams, a wealthy young American whose business activities involved him in a series of adventures. Nelson appeared as Grant Decker in "Threat of Evil", a 1960 episode of The DuPont Show with June Allyson. His additional television credits include guest appearances on Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Ben Casey, The Twilight Zone (episode "Stopover in a Quiet Town"), Dr. Kildare, and later years played a hobo on an episode of The Ropers .

Adams

He appeared regularly on television in the 1960s, having been one of the What's My Line? mystery guests and later serving as a guest panelist on that popular CBS quiz show. From 1963 to 1966, he hosted portions of the NBC Radio program Monitor. Nelson appeared in both the stage and screen versions of Mary, Mary Among his other film credits were Airport and The Shining (as the hotel manager who interviews Jack Nicholson for a job opening), and he also appeared on television series such as Murder, She Wrote, Dallas, Cannon and Magnum, P.I.

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