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    Nelson Olmsted

    American actor

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  1. Nelson Olmsted (January 28, 1914, Minneapolis, Minnesota – April 8, 1992, Torrance, California) was an actor in films and recordings, and on radio and television, from the 1950s to the 1970s. Sometimes billed as Nelson Olmstead , he was best known for an unusual NBC radio series, Sleep No More (1956–57), in which he narrated his own ...

  2. Nelson Olmsted. Nelson Olmsted, born Leroy Nelson Olmsted Jr., was a veteran character actor on scores of radio, television, and motion pictures. His screen credits include over a dozen movies, including "Lover Come Back," "That Touch of Mink," "Fitzwilly," and "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid." The son of Leroy Nelson Olmsted and Jane ...

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    • Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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    • Los Angeles, California, USA
  3. The son of Leroy Nelson Olmsted and Jane Hurford Long Olmsted, he was born on January 28, 1914, in Minneapolis, MN. He grew up in Texas and began his career as a radio announcer for WBAP in Fort Worth, where he launched a late-night 30-minute horror series, "Black Night," on November 5, 1937. Olmsted starred in the series and played a variety ...

    • January 28, 1914
    • April 8, 1992
  4. Apr 11, 1992 · Nelson Olmsted, veteran character actor of radio, television and motion pictures, has died at 78. Olmsted died Wednesday in a Torrance nursing home of complications after a stroke, his daughter ...

  5. From OTRCat.com Sleep No More was the second radio horror series of spoken word tales recited by Nelson Olmsted. (The first one was Black Night in 1937). Sle...

  6. Jan 27, 2023 · Nelson Olmsted was one of the last great radio horror performers. Born Leroy Nelson Olmsted, Jr. on January 28, 1914 in Minnesota, he was raised in Texas, where he became an announcer for local radio stations. For the album notes on his Sleep No More album, he offered a bit of biography:

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  8. Jan 27, 2023 · Listen to 18 episodes of Sleep No More, a 1956 radio horror series starring Nelson Olmsted, one of the last great radio horror performers. Each episode features two adaptations of classic horror stories by authors such as Poe, Wells, London and Gaskell.

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