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Sep 18, 1996 · Gene Nelson, who played Will Parker, the blond, boyish, high-stepping lasso dancer in the 1955 film version of ''Oklahoma!,'' died on Monday at a hospital in Calabasas, Calif. He was 76 and...
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Gene Nelson (born Leander Eugene Berg; March 24, 1920 – September 16, 1996) was an American actor, dancer, screenwriter, and director. [1][2][3] Biography. Nelson was born Eugene Leander Berg in Seattle, Washington. By 1924, he his parents moved to Santa Monica.
Sep 18, 1996 · Gene Nelson, a singing and dancing actor best remembered as the definitive cowboy Will Parker in the 1955 film version of “Oklahoma!” has died. He was 76.
Sep 18, 1996 · Gene Nelson, a dancer in 1950s Warner Bros. musicals who became a film and television director later in his career, has died at age 76. Mr. Nelson died of cancer Monday at the Motion Picture...
Gene Nelson. Actor: Oklahoma!. Gene Nelson was barely a teen when he saw the Fred Astaire movie Flying Down to Rio (1933), which would change his life. It was then that he decided he would be a dancer.
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After his dancing days ended he turned to directing TV and films, including two Elvis Presley movies, Kissin' Cousins (1964) and Harum Scarum (1965). For television he directed episodes of I Dream of Jeannie (1965), Star Trek (1966), The Rifleman (1958), The Donna Reed Show (1958) and many others.
Mar 24, 2015 · Gene Nelson, who played Will Parker, the blond, boyish, high-stepping lasso dancer in the 1955 film version of ''Oklahoma!,'' died on Monday at a hospital in Calabasas, Calif. He was 76 and lived in Los Angeles. He had been suffering from cancer, said his daughter, Victoria Gordon.
