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During his service in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II, Nelson debuted on the Broadway stage in Moss Hart's play Winged Victory (1943) in the role of Bobby Grills. His next Broadway appearance was as Peter Sloan, playwright, in Hart's Light Up the Sky (1948).
Joining the Army and assigned to an entertainment unit, he made his Broadway debut in 1943, billed as Pvt. Barry Nelson, in Moss Hart’s wartime morale builder, “Winged Victory.”
Winged Victory is a 1944 American drama film directed by George Cukor, a joint effort of 20th Century-Fox and the U.S. Army Air Forces. [2] Based upon the 1943 play of the same name by Moss Hart, who also wrote the screenplay, the film opened only after the play's theatre run. The film version of Winged Victory used many of the Broadway cast ...
Apr 7, 2007 · Barry Nelson is credited as Performer and Director. The official database for Broadway theatre information ... Winged Victory (Nov 20, 1943 - May 20, 1944)
Birth Details. 1925. Oakland, California, United States. Famous Works. Credits. BROADWAY DEBUT--Bobby Grills, Winged Victory, 44th Street Theatre, 1943. Credits; PRINCIPAL STAGE APPEARANCES. Peter Sloan, Light Up the Sky, Royale Theatre, New York City, 1948. Gus Hammer, The Rat Race, Ethel Barrymore Theatre, New York City, 1949.
Although the studio's contract with Hart and the AAF stipulated that the top six actors of the stage play, Richard Hogan, Edmond O'Brien, Mark Daniels, Don Taylor, Barry Nelson and Rune Hultman, be cast in the film, Lon McAllister eventually replaced Hogan in the part of "Frankie Davis."
Serving in WWII, he appeared in the Moss Hart play "Winged Victory", in what would become his Broadway debut, in 1943 and a year later he appeared as "Corporal Barry Nelson" in the 1944 film version of the play. Barry lost major ground in films during the post-war years, but certainly made up for it on the live stage by appearing in a string of ...
