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Barry Nelson

Also Credited As: Pvt. Barry Nelson

Date of Death: April 07, 2007 (86)

Birth Place: San Francisco, CA, USA

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STAGE CREDITS

[US Tour]
1st National Tour, 1983
Julian Marsh

[Broadway]
Original Broadway Production, 1980
Julian Marsh [Replacement]

[Broadway]
Original Broadway Production, 1977
Dan Connors

[Broadway]
1975
Charlie

[Broadway]
1970
Walter Whitney

[Broadway]
Original Broadway Production, 1969
Harry Stone

[Broadway]
1968
Performer

[Broadway]
1967
Richard

[Broadway]
1965
Julian

[Broadway]
1963
Nat Bentley [Replacement]

[Broadway]
1961
Bob McKellaway

[Broadway]
1956
Don Emerson

[Broadway]
1951
Donald Gresham

[Broadway]
1949
Gus Hammer

[Broadway]
1948
Peter Sloan

Productions

 
[Broadway, 1968]
Director

Movies

Johnny Eager
[ 1941 ] Lew Rankin
Shadow of the Thin Man
[ 1941 ] Paul
The Affairs of Martha
[ 1942 ] Danny O Brien
Rio Rita
[ 1942 ] Harry Gantley
A Yank on the Burma Road
[ 1942 ] Joe Tracey
Eyes in the Night
[ 1942 ] Mr. Busch
Dr. Kildare's Victory
[ 1942 ] Samuel Z. Cutter
A Guy Named Joe
[ 1943 ] Dick Rumney
Bataan
[ 1943 ] F.X. Matowski
The Human Comedy
[ 1943 ] Fat Dana
The Beginning or the End
[ 1947 ] Colonel Paul Tibbetts Jr.
Undercover Maisie
[ 1947 ] Lt. Paul Scott
Tenth Avenue Angel
[ 1948 ] Al Parker
The Man with My Face
[ 1951 ] CharlesChickGraham, AlbertBertRand
Mary, Mary
[ 1963 ] Bob McKellaway
Airport
[ 1970 ] Anson Harris
Pete 'n' Tillie
[ 1972 ] Burt
Island Claws
[ 1980 ] Dr. McNeal
The Shining
[ 1980 ] Stuart Ullman

Awards and Nominations

Tony Awards - 1978 - Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical

Barry Nelson, The Act

News


BWW Review: SEASCAPE at American Conservatory Theater is a lighter, more optimistic side of Edward Albee

If your sum impression of the Edward Albee canon is his magnificent WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? then SEASCAPE, Pam MacKinnon's refreshing resident directing debut at American Conservatory Theater, will surprise you.
Minneapolis Musical Theatre Presents CYRANO DE BERGERAC, Now thru 2/15

Calvin Berger, a modern, musical comedy about a boy, a girl...and a nose, based loosely on the timeless classic Cyrano de Bergerac and set in high school, makes its area premiere in a Minneapolis Musical Theatre (MMT) production running tonight, January 23, through February 15, 2015 at Hennepin Theatre Trust's New Century Theatre.
Minneapolis Musical Theatre to Present CYRANO DE BERGERAC, 1/23-2/15

Calvin Berger, a modern, musical comedy about a boy, a girl...and a nose, based loosely on the timeless classic Cyrano de Bergerac and set in high school, makes its area premiere in a Minneapolis Musical Theatre (MMT) production running January 23-February 15, 2015 at Hennepin Theatre Trust's New Century Theatre. With book, music and lyrics by the award-winning Barry Wyner, Calvin Berger is directed by Joshua James Campbell working with MMT's new artistic director, Christian Unser. Local actor Gregory Adam stars as Calvin, returning to MMT after his scene-stealing turn as the sexy and conniving Raoul in the recent production of Eating Raoul.
Richard Easton, Liz Larsen & More to Star in Peccadillo's LIGHT UP THE SKY Reading Tonight

Tony Award winner Richard Easton, Liz Larsen, Steve Vinovich, and Glory Crampton are set to star in The Peccadillo Theater Company's upcoming staged reading of Moss Hart's 1948 play LIGHT UP THE SKY tonight, July 29th at 7 PM at Theatre at St. Clement's, 423 West 46th Street (between Ninth & Tenth Ave.) The evening will be directed and hosted by Christopher Hart, the son of playwright Moss Hart and actress Kitty Carlisle Hart. Featured in the cast of LIGHT UP THE SKY are Peter Cormican (Follies, The Rivalry), Charles E. Gerber ("Royal Pains," "Third Watch"), Lucy Martin (Children of a Lesser God, The Sister Rosensweig), Michael Quinlan ("Blue Bloods," Death of a Salesman w/Dustin Hoffman), Bruch Reed (Lombardi), Tony Triano (The Man Who Came to Dinner), Marisa Vitale ("Bored to Death"), and John Wernke (The Lyons, The Royal Family).
Richard Easton, Liz Larsen and More Star in Peccadillo's LIGHT UP THE SKY Reading Tonight

Tony Award winner Richard Easton, Liz Larsen, Steve Vinovich, and Glory Crampton are set to star in The Peccadillo Theater Company's upcoming staged reading of Moss Hart's 1948 play LIGHT UP THE SKY tonight, July 29th at 7 PM at Theatre at St. Clement's, 423 West 46th Street (between Ninth & Tenth Ave.)
Christopher Hart to Host & Direct Peccadillo Theater Co.'s Staged Reading of LIGHT UP THE SKY, 7/29; Richard Easton, Liz Larsen & More to Star

Tony Award winner Richard Easton, Liz Larsen, Steve Vinovich, and Glory Crampton are set to star in The Peccadillo Theater Company's upcoming staged reading of Moss Hart's 1948 play LIGHT UP THE SKY this Monday, July 29th at 7 PM at Theatre at St. Clement's, 423 West 46th Street (between Ninth & Tenth Ave.) The evening will be hosted and directed by Christopher Hart, the son of playwright Moss Hart and actress Kitty Carlisle Hart. Featured in the cast of LIGHT UP THE SKY are Peter Cormican (Follies, The Rivalry), Charles E. Gerber ("Royal Pains," "Third Watch"), Lucy Martin (Children of a Lesser God, The Sister Rosensweig), Michael Quinlan ("Blue Bloods," Death of a Salesman w/Dustin Hoffman), Bruch Reed (Lombardi), Tony Triano (The Man Who Came to Dinner), Marisa Vitale ("Bored to Death"), and John Wernke (The Lyons, The Royal Family).
Richard Easton, Liz Larsen and More to Star in Peccadillo's LIGHT UP THE SKY Reading; Full Cast Announced!

Tony Award winner Richard Easton, Liz Larsen, Steve Vinovich, and Glory Crampton are set to star in The Peccadillo Theater Company's upcoming staged reading of Moss Hart's 1948 play LIGHT UP THE SKY Monday, July 29th at 7 PM at Theatre at St. Clement's, 423 West 46th Street (between Ninth & Tenth Ave.)
Richard Easton, Liz Larsen & More to Lead Peccadillo's Staged Reading of LIGHT UP THE SKY, 7/29

Tony Award winner Richard Easton, Liz Larsen, Steve Vinovich, and Glory Crampton are set to star in The Peccadillo Theater Company's upcoming staged reading of Moss Hart's 1948 play LIGHT UP THE SKY, under the direction of Christopher Hart, Monday, July 29 at 7 PM at Theatre at St. Clement's, 423 West 46 Street (between Ninth & Tenth Ave.) The entire cast will be announced early next week.
BWW Interviews: THE FIG LEAVES ARE FALLING's Jonathan Rayson

The musical THE FIG LEAVES ARE FALLING had a notoriously short run on Broadway the first time around. It is now being presented at Off Broadway's Connelly Theater and its star Jonathan Rayson chats about it and his career.
Tony Winner Tonya Pinkins Stars in 'ETHEL WATERS' at Luna Stage, Now thru 9/2

Award-winning producers Michael & Barbara Ross will present Tony Award-winning actress Tonya Pinkins in Larry Parr's ETHEL WATERS: HIS EYE IS ON THE SPARROW at Luna Stage in West Orange, New Jersey, for a limited run, tonight, August 16 - September 2, 2012. The production will be directed by award-winning director Dennis Courtney, with musical direction by Barry Levitt.
Tony Winner Tonya Pinkins Stars in 'ETHEL WATERS' at Luna Stage, 8/16-9/2

Award-winning producers Michael & Barbara Ross will present Tony Award-winning actress Tonya Pinkins in Larry Parr's ETHEL WATERS: HIS EYE IS ON THE SPARROW at Luna Stage in West Orange, New Jersey, for a limited run, August 16 - September 2, 2012. The production will be directed by award-winning director Dennis Courtney, with musical direction by Barry Levitt.
UMC Presents THE FIG LEAVES ARE FALLING July 29

UnsungMusicalsCo. Inc. (www.UnsungMusicals.org) will present a special exploratory reading of the 1969 musical comedy The Fig Leaves Are Falling as part of The Archival Project, a UMC initiative aimed at researching, assembling and restoring the material from unpublished and out-of-print musical shows.
John Bolton, Cortney Wolfson, et al. Set for FIG LEAVES Reading, 7/29

UnsungMusicalsCo. Inc. will present a special exploratory reading of the 1969 musical comedy The Fig Leaves Are Falling as part of The Archival Project, a UMC initiative aimed at researching, assembling and restoring the material from unpublished and out-of-print musical shows. Featuring John Bolton (Curtains, Spamalot), Troy Britton Johnson (The Drowsy Chaperone), Natalie Venetia Belcon (Avenue Q) and Cortney Wolfson (Legally Blonde, The Addams Family), the reading will be held on July 29 at 3pm at Manhattan Theatre Club's Creative Center, 311 West 43rd Street.
Review - Cactus Flower: Breaking Up Is Hard To Do

Though the sexual revolution was revving into full force in 1965, you'd never know it by America's popular entertainment.  Barbara Eden may have been dressed in a belly dancer outfit while starring in the new hit series, I Dream of Jeannie, but the network censors made sure her belly remained covered.  The next year Marlo Thomas' That Girl would begin a five-year TV relationship with her boyfriend Donald, but at the end of each romantic date they'd end the evening alone in their own separate apartments.
EVERYTHING IN THE GARDEN Reading Today, 6/21

Edward Albee's rarely-seen 'Everything in the Garden' will be the first play to be read in The Peccadillo Theater Company's new 'The Plays-You-Should-Know-And-Probably-Don't Reading Series' on Monday, June 21st (3PM) at the Theatre at St. Clement's (423 West 46th Street.)
John Rubinstein, Angelica Torn & More Set For EVERYTHING IN THE GARDEN Reading

Edward Albee's rarely-seen 'Everything in the Garden' will be the first play to be read in The Peccadillo Theater Company's new 'The Plays-You-Should-Know-And-Probably-Don't Reading Series' on Monday, June 21st (3PM) at the Theatre at St. Clement's (423 West 46th Street.)
BABALU-CY to Play New Performance Schedule

BABALU-CY will now play a special schedule from September 27th thru October 12th it will playSaturday & Sunday @ 3pm. THERE WILL BE NO WEDNESDAY PERFORMANCES IN OBSERVANCE OF ROSH HASHANAH & YOM KIPPUR.
Purnhagen Plays Homage To Arnaz In 'Babalu-cy' at Actors Temple

Award-winning producers, MICHAEL & BARBARA ROSS, will present the 2008 Back Stage Bistro Award Winning GREG PURNHAGEN in BABALU-CY - the art of Desi Arnaz, Off-Broadway, at the Actors Temple Theatre, beginning August 23rd, with the opening set for Wednesday, September 17th.
'Babalu-cy-the art of Desi Arnaz' Begins 8/23

Award-winning producers, Michael & Barbara Ross, will present the 2008 Back Stage Bistro Award Winning GREG PURNHAGEN in BABALU-CY - the art of Desi Arnaz, Off-Broadway, at the Actors Temple Theater, beginning August 23rd.
Purnhagen Plays Homage To Arnaz In 'Babalu-cy' at Actors Temple

Award-winning producers, MICHAEL & BARBARA ROSS, will present the 2008 Back Stage Bistro Award Winning GREG PURNHAGEN in BABALU-CY - the art of Desi Arnaz, Off-Broadway, at the Actors Temple Theatre, beginning August 23rd, with the opening set for Wednesday, September 17th.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

How many Broadway shows has Barry Nelson been in?

Barry Nelson has appeared on Broadway in 17 shows.

How many West End shows has Barry Nelson been in?

Barry Nelson has not appeared in the West End

What awards has Barry Nelson been nominated for?

Barry Nelson has been nominated for the Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical for his performance in the show "The Act".

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