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Ralph Nelson (August 12, 1916 – December 21, 1987) was an American movie and television director, producer, writer, and actor. ==Life and career== Nelson was born into a Swedish-American family in Long Island City, New York in 1916. He became interested in the theater while attending high school, and won an oratory contest sponsored by the "New York Times" in 1932. His interest in the theater lead him to Broadway, where he worked as an errand boy before making it onto the stage. He made his Broadway debut on January 15, 1934 in "False Dreams, Farewell," and followed it up with parts in "Romeo & Juliet," "Othello," "Macbeth," and "The Taming of the Shrew" through 1940. His last Broadway play before the outbreak of World War II was "There Shall Be No Night," also in 1940, for which he also served as stage manager. During this pre-war period, Nelson worked with such legendary performers as Katharine Cornell, Leslie Howard, and the Lunts. In World War II, Nelson joined the Army as an air cadet. He was assigned to the stage company that put on Irving Berlin's "This Is the Army" on Broadway, and his award-winning one-act play "Mail Call" was part of a Broadway showcase "Army Play by Play" in 1943, while he was serving with the Air Corps. He eventually was promoted to captain while serving as a flight instructor, and on June 14, 1945, his first full-length play, "The Wind Is Ninety," was presented on Broadway while he was still attached to what was now called the Army Air Force. The play won an award from the National Theater Conference. Although Nelson appeared on Broadway again as an actor in the musicals "Cabaret" and "Follies," staged the comedy The Man in the Dog Suit" in 1958, and produced the musical "Look to the Lilies" in 1970, it was the visual media that beckoned. He entered the nascent television industry as an actor, but made the transition to director.〔(【引用サイトリンク】website=IMDb )〕 Nelson directed the acclaimed episode ''A World of His Own'' of ''The Twilight Zone" ''(he should ''not'' be confused with ''The Twilight Zone's'' production manager, Ralph ''W.'' Nelson). He also directed both the television and film versions of Rod Serling's ''Requiem for a Heavyweight.'' He directed ''Charly,'' the 1968 film version of ''Flowers for Algernon,'' for which Cliff Robertson won an Academy Award, as well as several racially provocative films in the 1960s and early 1970s, including the Academy Award-winning ''Lilies of the Field,'' ''...tick...tick...tick...'', ''Christmas Lilies of the Field,'' ''The Wilby Conspiracy,'' and ''Soldier Blue.'' The starring role in "Lilies" led to Sidney Poitier winning the Academy Award for Best Actor. Nelson also directed the Cary Grant comedy ''Father Goose,'' the offbeat ''Soldier in the Rain'' with Jackie Gleason and Steve McQueen, the crime story ''Once a Thief,'' and Rita Hayworth's last film, ''The Wrath of God.'' He both directed, and briefly appeared in, ''Duel at Diablo,'' starring James Garner and Sidney Poitier. Nelson's other credits include several episodes of TV's ''Starsky & Hutch,'' the '70s camp horror classic ''Embryo,'' and ''A Hero Ain't Nothin' But A Sandwich.'' A television drama about mounting the live show of ''Requiem for a Heavyweight'' called ''The Man in the Funny Suit'' was made in 1960, with Nelson both writing and directing. Nelson, Serling, Red Skelton, Keenan Wynn and Ed Wynn appeared in it as themselves. He returned to TV in the late 1970s with a string of TV movies, including a sequel to ''Lilies of the Field'' which starred Billy Dee Williams. The last feature film Nelson ever directed was ''Because He's My Friend,'' released in 1978. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ralph Nelson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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