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Ozzie Nelson
Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Oswald George "Ozzie" Nelson (March 20, 1906 – June 3, 1975) was an American band leader, actor, director, and producer. He originated and s…
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Oswald George "Ozzie" Nelson (March 20, 1906 – June 3, 1975) was an American band leader, actor, director, and producer. He originated and starred in The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, a radio and long-running television series with his wife Harriet and two sons David and Ricky Nelson. Nelson started his entertainment career as a band leader. He formed and led "The Ozzie Nelson Band," and had some initial limited success. Nelson's records were consistently popular, and in 1934, Nelson enjoyed success with his hit song, "Over Somebody Else's Shoulder," which he introduced. Nelson was their primary vocalist and, from August of 1932, he featured in duets with his other star vocalist, Harriet Hilliard. Nelson's calm, easy vocal style was popular on records and radio and quite similar to son Rick's voice, and Harriet's perky vocals added to the band's popularity. Ozzie Nelson appeared with his band in feature films and short subjects of the 1940s, and often played speaking parts, displaying a tongue-in-cheek sense of humor, as in the 1942 musical Strictly in the Groove. He shrewdly promoted the band by agreeing to appear in "soundies," three-minute musical movies shown in "film jukeboxes" of the 1940s. In 1952, when he and his family were established as radio and TV favorites, they starred in a feature film, Here Come the Nelsons, which actually doubled as a "pilot" for the TV series.
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1973
Ozzie's Girls
TV show
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1972
Bridget Loves Bernie
TV show Director
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1970
Night Gallery
TV show Henry Millikan (segment "You Can Come Up Now, Mrs. Millikan")
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1969
Love, American Style
TV show Fred Garber
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1969
The Barbara McNair Show
TV show Self
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1968
The Impossible Years
Movie Herbert Fleischer
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1968
Adam-12
TV show Ted Clover
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1968
The Movie Orgy
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1967
The Mothers-in-Law
TV show Owen Sinclair / Ozzie Snick
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1965
Love and Kisses
Movie Director
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1962
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV show Self
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1962
The Merv Griffin Show
TV show Self
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1959
Disneyland '59
Movie Self
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1952
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet
TV show Ozzie
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1952
This Is Your Life
TV show Self
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1952
Here Come the Nelsons
Movie Ozzie Nelson
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1950
What's My Line?
TV show Self
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1946
People Are Funny
Movie Leroy Brinker
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1944
Take It Big
Movie Ozzie Nelson
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1944
Wave-a-Stick Blues
Movie Ozzie Nelson
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1944
Hi, Good Lookin'!
Movie Ozzie Nelson - Orchestra Leader
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1943
Honeymoon Lodge
Movie Ozzie Nelson - Band Leader
- 1943
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1942
Strictly in the Groove
Movie Ozzie Nelson
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1942
The Big Street
Movie Orchestra Leader
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1941
Sweetheart of the Campus
Movie Ozzie Norton
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1940
Ozzie Nelson & His Orchestra
Movie Ozzie Nelson
