Ralph Nelson
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Ralph Nelson (August 12, 1916 – December 21, 1987) was an American film and television director, producer, writer, and actor.
He was best known for directing Lilies of the Field (1963), Father Goose (1964), and Charly (1968), films which won Academy Awards.
Life and career
Nelson was born in Long Island, New York. In World War II, he served in the Army Air Corps as a flight instructor.
He had a play on Broadway before the war came to an end: "The Wind Is Ninety" ran from June to September 1945. Kirk Douglas appeared in the film.
Nelson narrated The Twilight Zone's hit episode "A World of His Own" (he should not be confused with The Twilight Zone's production manager, Ralph W. Nelson). Rod Serling's Requiem for a Heavyweight also produced both the television and film versions.
He directed Charly, the 1968 film version of Flowers for Algernon, for which Cliff Robertson received an Academy Award, as well as several other racially provocative films, including the Academy Award-winning Lilies of the Field, The Wilby Conspiracy, and Soldier Blue. Sidney Poitier received the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in "Lilies."
Father Goose, the offbeat Soldier in the Rain, with Jackie Gleason and Steve McQueen, as well as Rita Hayworth's last film, The Wrath of God. Duel at Diablo, starring James Garner and Sidney Poitier, was both directed and briefly appeared.
Nelson's other appearances include multiple episodes of TV's Starsky & Hutch, the 1970s camp horror classic Embryo, and A Hero Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich.
In 1960, Nelson produced and directed a television drama about mounting the Requiem for a Heavyweight called The Man in the Funny Suit. Nelson, Serling, Red Skelton, Keenan Wynn, and Ed Wynn appeared as themselves in the game.
He returned to television in the late 1970s with a series of TV films, including a sequel to Lilies of the Field starring Billy Dee Williams, Maria Schell, and Fay Hauser.