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Gene Nelson (born Leander Eugene Berg; March 24, 1920 – September 16, 1996) was an American actor, dancer, screenwriter, and director.
ABOUT. His name...Gene Nelson. Born in Arkansas in 1989 and raised on a steady diet of late night talkshows and Comedy Central programming. Gene graduated with a Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Media Communication from The University of Arkansas.
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.
- Director, Actor, Additional Crew
- March 24, 1920
- 3 min
- September 16, 1996
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.
- March 24, 1920
- September 16, 1996
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...
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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. Nelson died Monday of cancer at the...
Sep 16, 1996 · Prolific actor/director Gene Nelson appeared in more than 60 productions and helmed another 50 in a career that spanned five decades, but his first ambition was to become a dancer after he saw Fred Astaire's musical comedy "Flying Down to Rio."
