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Background[]
Biography[]
Personal Life[]
Filmography[]
- The Return of Count Yorga (1971)
- Mary Tyler Moore (1973) 1 episode
- Bachelor-at-Law (1973)
- Scream Blacula Scream (1973)
- Flesh Gordon (1974)
- Charlie's Angels (1978) 1 episode
- Wonder Woman (1978) 1 episode
- How the West Was Won (1979) 1 episode
- ...and justice for all. (1979)
- Diary of a Teenage Hitchhiker (1979)
- Where the Buffalo Roam (1980)
- Rage! (1980)
- Private Benjamin (1980)
- The Promise of Love (1980)
- Stir Crazy (1980)
- The Formula (1980)
- The White Shadow (1980) 1 episode
- Inmates: A Love Story (1981)
- WKRP in Cincinnati (1981) 1 episode
- Chicago Story (1981)
- Murder in Texas (1981)
- Private Benjamin (1981-83) 3 episodes
- The Toast of Manhattan (1982)
- Paper Dolls (1982)
- Poltergeist (1982)
- Chicago Story (1982) 13 episodes
- Man, Woman and Child (1983)
- The Osterman Weekend (1983)
- All the Right Moves (1983)
- Silkwood (1983)
- The Killing Fields (1984)
- Call to Glory (1984-85) 23 episodes
- Alex: The Life of a Child (1986)
- Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986)
- The Ted Kennedy Jr. Story (1986)
- Rachel River (1987)
- Red Riding Hood (1988)
- Action Jackson (1988)
- Me and Him (1988)
- Troop Beverly Hills (1989)
- Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story (1989)
- Turner & Hooch (1989)
- Coach (1989-97) series regular
- Drug Wars: The Camarena Story (1990) 3 episodes
- Extreme Close-Up (1990)
- The Josephine Baker Story (1991)
- The Switch (1993)
- The Fire Next Time (1993) 2 episodes
- Ride with the Wind (1994)
- Probable Cause (1994)
- Take Me Home Again (1994)
- If These Walls Could Talk (1996)
- Ghosts of Mississippi (1996)
- I'm Not Rappaport (1996)
- Devil's Advocate (1997)
- Newton's Apple (1997) 1 episode
- Wag the Dog (1997)
- Creature (1998) 2 episodes
- To Serve and Protect (1999) 2 episodes
- The Huntress (2000) 1 episode
- The Skulls (2000)
- Dirty Pictures (2000)
- The District (2000-04) series regular
- All Over Again (2001)
- The Agency (2002) 1 episode
- The Incredibles (2004)
- Mr. Incredible and Pals (2005)
- The Family Stone (2005)
- Blades of Glory (2007)
- My Name Is Earl (2007) 4 episodes
- CSI: NY (2009) 3 episodes
- The Proposal (2009)
- Monk (2009) 2 episodes
- The Company Men (2010)
- Parenthood (2010-15) series regular
- Soul Surfer (2011)
- Hawaii Five-0 (2013) 1 episode
- Get Hard (2015)
- Grace and Frankie (2015) 5 episodes
- Gold (2016)
- Book Club (2018)
- Incredibles 2 (2018)
Trivia[]
- Wanted to become a hydroplane racer.
- Was the 2024 University of Arizona commencement keynote speaker. Nelson drove his 1956 Studebaker from Spokane to Tucson in the fall of 1965 to attend the University of Arizona on a drama scholarship.
Quotes[]
- "No one is accountable anymore for anything."
- "The super power that I would choose would be compassion. Because that's what I think it takes to make it through life―an understanding, a give and take. It saves an awful lot of resentment."
- "I don't want to be told what's for my good."
- "I worry about making work more important than what I know to be the truth. Throughout all areas of life, we're told how to look, how to act, what to speak, what to wear, what we should have and other people don't have, and we know none of that means anything. Yet these other messages never stop coming."