| Craig T. Nelson  AKA Craig Richard Nelson
Born: 4-Apr-1946
Birthplace: Spokane, WA
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Coach Hayden Fox on Coach Craig T. Nelson is an actor, best known for his TV work as the deadpan slow-burning Coach on Coach, and as the stoic Police Chief on The District. Nelson began his career as a writer-announcer on Los Angeles radio, and performed stand-up comedy with Barry Levinson. He wrote for early 1970s comedies like The Tim Conway Show and The John Byner Comedy Hour, and made his film debut in the campy vampire sequel Return of Count Yorga. In 1974's sci-fi softcore porn Flesh Gordon, Nelson provided the monster's voice, shouting lines like, "Nobody burns my ass and gets away with it, Gordon!"
In the mid-1970s, Nelson grew disenchanted with show business, dropped out of Hollywood, and moved with his wife and kids to rural California. For almost five years he worked as a janitor, plumber, lumberjack, and carpenter. Then he returned to Los Angeles, and produced a series of documentaries about a subject he knew well -- artists who chucked the urban grind for a rural lifestyle.
Levinson co-wrote Al Pacino's 1979 lawyer melodrama ...And Justice for All, and had Nelson audition for a small part. He got the role, and other films followed. Nelson eventually came to prominence as the father in the first, best Poltergeist, and he played a high school football coach in the early Tom Cruise film All the Right Moves. More recently, Nelson provided the voice for Mr. Incredible in The Incredibles.
The "T" in Craig T. Nelson stands for Theodore, a phony middle name Nelson created when he learned that another Craig Richard Nelson was already registered with the Screen Actors Guild. The other Nelson played struggling law student Willis Bell in the 1973 film The Paper Chase, and has appeared in episodes of two different Star Trek series. Father: (drummer for Bing Crosby)
Wife: Robin Nelson (div. 1978, three children)
Wife: Doria Cook-Nelson (actress, The Swarm, m. 1987)
Son: Noah Nelson
TELEVISION
Chicago Story Kenneth A. Dutton (1982)
Call to Glory Col. Raynor Sarnac (1984-85)
Coach Coach Hayden Fox:Coach Hayden Fox (1989-97)
The District Chief Jack Mannion (2000-04)
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Blades of Glory (30-Mar-2007)
The Family Stone (2-Dec-2005)
The Incredibles (27-Oct-2004) [VOICE]
Dirty Pictures (27-May-2000)
The Skulls (27-Mar-2000)
Creature (17-May-1998)
The Devil's Advocate (17-Oct-1997)
I'm Not Rappaport (24-Dec-1996)
Ghosts of Mississippi (20-Dec-1996)
If These Walls Could Talk (11-Sep-1996)
The Josephine Baker Story (16-Mar-1991)
Turner & Hooch (28-Jul-1989)
Troop Beverly Hills (22-Mar-1989)
Red Riding Hood (15-Mar-1989)
Me and Him (15-Sep-1988)
Action Jackson (12-Feb-1988)
Poltergeist II: The Other Side (23-May-1986)
The Killing Fields (2-Nov-1984)
Silkwood (14-Dec-1983)
Man, Woman and Child (18-Nov-1983)
All the Right Moves (21-Oct-1983)
The Osterman Weekend (14-Oct-1983)
Poltergeist (4-Jun-1982)
Murder in Texas (3-May-1981)
The Formula (19-Dec-1980)
Stir Crazy (12-Dec-1980)
Private Benjamin (10-Oct-1980)
Where the Buffalo Roam (25-Apr-1980)
...And Justice For All (19-Oct-1979)
The Return of Count Yorga (1971)
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