Craig T. Nelson
Craig T. Nelson was born in Spokane, Washington, United States on April 4th, 1944 and is the TV Actor. At the age of 80, Craig T. Nelson biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Craig Theodore Nelson (born April 4, 1944) is an American actor.
He is best known for his appearances in the television series Coach (for which he received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series) and Mr. Reilly in the 1980 film Poltergeist, the warden in My Name Is Earl and Mr. Reilly. Incredible in the 2004 film The Incredibles and its 2018 sequel.
In the television series Parenthood, he also appeared as Zeek Braverman.
Early life
Nelson was born Craig Theodore Nelson in Spokane, Washington, on April 4, 1944. He was the uncle of Vera Margaret (née Spindler, 1906-1971), a ballet performer, and Armand Gilbert Nelson (1900–1964), a businessman.
Nelson attended Lewis and Clark High School, where he competed football, baseball, and basketball.
Nelson attended Central Washington University after high school. Nelson moved to Yakima Valley College, where he was inspired to study acting by his drama instructor, Mr. Brady, after flunking out. On a grant from Yakima, he went on to study drama at the University of Arizona.
Nelson dropped out of school and went to Hollywood to pursue a film career in 1969. He first moved to California and started working as a security guard at a soap factory before finding jobs as a comedy writer.
Personal life
Nelson has three children from his previous marriage to Robin McCarthy. Doria Cook-Nelson, his second wife, is a freelance writer, president of a martial arts association, tai chi instructor, and a former film and television actress who appeared in Mame's film musical.
Nelson is both a motorsports fan and an avid racer. He appeared in the 1991 Toyota Celebrity Long Beach Grand Prix for the first time and finished ninth. He co-founded Screaming Eagles Racing with John Christie in 1992, a Lexus-engined Spice SE90 in 1995, and a Ford-engineered Riley & Scott MkIII in the 1996 and 1997 championships.
Career
Nelson began his show business career as a comedian. He was a founding member of The Groundlings' improv and sketch comedy troupes. Nelson, Barry Levinson, and Rudy De Luca formed their own comedy company and appeared on the short-lived The Tim Conway Comedy Hour (1970). Nelson left comedy in 1973, claiming that "the stand-up comedy life was unfull for me" and that he settled in Montgomery Creek, California, where there was no electricity and no running water; "it was contentment, The Waltons." During that period, Nelson worked in Burney, CA, as janitor, plumber, carpenter, surveyor, and high school teacher. He returned to acting five years later.
In the 1979 film...And Justice for All, Levinson co-authored, he was depicted as a prosecuting attorney who opposes Al Pacino. Nelson appeared in Silkwood, directed by Mike Nichols and starring Meryl Sterp as Tom Cruise's high school football coach in the drama All the Right Moves and as one of director Sam Peckinpah's last film, The Osterman Weekend.
He has appeared in numerous motion pictures (most notably the Poltergeist series) and appeared in five television series (Coach, Call to Glory, The District, My Name Is Earl) and Parenthood. Hayden Fox, Nelson, starred as college football coach Hayden Fox from 1989 to 1997.
He was also known as Mr. Parr. Incredible) in the computer-animated superhero film The Incredibles, and then back to the role in Incredibles 2's sequel. Nelson reprised his role in the Kinect Rush: A Disney-Pixar Adventure and in the Disney Infinity video game series, except for the video game and The Incredibles: Rise of the Underminer, where actor Richard McGonagle was inserted.
Nelson appeared on CSI: NY as a "nemesis" of Gary Sinise's Taylor.
Ryan Reynolds' skeptical father, 2010's The Company Men, as a cynical CEO, and 2018's Book Club are among his latest films. He appeared in Parenthood as Ezekiel "Zeek" Braverman, the family patriarch from 2010 to 2015. Family Tree Productions, Inc., is his production company.
Nelson appeared in Young Sheldon as Dale Ballard, Missy's baseball coach, and Meemaw's boyfriend.