Personal Info
Birth date
1947-09-17 (77 Years)
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Also known as
-Craig Richard Nelson
Biography
Craig Richard Nelson (born September 17, 1947) is an American theater, film and television character actor. Description above from the Wikipedia article Craig Richard Nelson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Filmography
Star Trek: Voyager
7.795
Overview:
Pulled to the far side of the galaxy, where the Federation is 75 years away at maximum warp speed, a Starfleet ship must cooperate with Maquis rebels to find a way home.Star Trek: The Next Generation
8.368
Overview:
Follow the intergalactic adventures of Capt. Jean-Luc Picard and his loyal crew aboard the all-new USS Enterprise NCC-1701D, as they explore new worlds.Murder, She Wrote
7.5
Overview:
An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.Diagnosis: Murder
7.071
Overview:
Dr. Mark Sloan is a good-natured, offbeat physician who is called upon to solve murders.Doogie Howser, M.D.
6.6
Overview:
Doogie Howser is a doctor. He is also a 16-year-old genius who graduated college at age 10 and finished medical school at age 14. But he is still a teenager, with normal teenage friends and problems. But unlike a normal teenager, he is just learning to drive while also consulting on serious medical cases like heart transplants.Night Court
7.352
Overview:
An eccentric fun-loving judge presides over an urban night court and all the silliness going on there.Home Improvement
7.4
Overview:
The daily trials and tribulations of handyman Tim Taylor, a TV show host raising three boys with help from his loyal co-host, domineering wife, and unseen neighbor.Grace Under Fire
5.652
Overview:
Grace Kelly is a tough woman with kids to raise. A recently divorced recovering alcoholic, Grace struggles with the pressures of being a single mother supporting three children. Grace doesn't always handle situations with, well, grace, but she does get results.The Golden Girls
7.5
Overview:
Four Southern Florida seniors share a house, their dreams, and a whole lot of cheesecake. Bright, promiscuous, clueless and hilarious, these lovely, mismatched ladies form the perfect circle of friends.Barney Miller
7.3
Overview:
Barney Miller is an American situation comedy television series set in a New York City police station in Greenwich Village. The series originally was broadcast from January 23, 1975 to May 20, 1982 on ABC. It was created by Danny Arnold and Theodore J. Flicker. Noam Pitlik directed the majority of the episodes.Quantum Leap
8
Overview:
Theorizing that one could time travel within his own lifetime, Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and vanished... He woke to find himself trapped in the past, facing mirror images that were not his own and driven by an unknown force to change history for the better. His only guide on this journey is Al, an observer from his own time, who appears in the form of a hologram that only Sam can see and hear. And so Dr. Beckett finds himself leaping from life to life, striving to put right what once went wrong and hoping each time that his next leap will be the leap home.Empty Nest
5.8
Overview:
Widowed pediatrician Harry Weston is a miracle worker when it comes to dealing with his young patients, but he's more challenged by the other people surrounding him: daughters Barbara and Carol; his wisecracking office assistant, nurse LaVerne Todd; and obnoxious neighborhood mooch Charley Dietz. Thank goodness he always finds a friendly shoulder (and a warm, wet tongue) in Dreyfuss, his enormous dog.Amazing Stories
7.441
Overview:
A truly amazing, fantastical, science fiction, funny and odd, and sometimes scary, sad and endearing anthology series presented by Steven Spielberg with guest appearances by many famous actors, actresses, and directors.L.A. Law
7.1
Overview:
L.A. Law is an American television legal drama series that ran for eight seasons on NBC from September 15, 1986, to May 19, 1994. Created by Steven Bochco and Terry Louise Fisher, it contained many of Bochco's trademark features including a large number of parallel storylines, social drama and off-the-wall humor. It reflected the social and cultural ideologies of the 1980s and early 1990s, and many of the cases featured on the show dealt with hot-topic issues such as abortion, racism, gay rights, homophobia, sexual harassment, AIDS, and domestic violence. The series often also reflected social tensions between the wealthy senior lawyer protagonists and their less well-paid junior staff. The show was popular with audiences and critics, and won 15 Emmy Awards throughout its run, four of which were for Outstanding Drama Series.Burke's Law
6.7
Overview:
Burke's Law, a revival of the 1960s cop television series of the same name, aired on CBS from 1994 to 1995. The series centers on Amos Burke, a senior Los Angeles police officer and millionaire, and his son, Peter, who is a detective under his command.Wings
6.9
Overview:
Brothers Brian and Joe Hackett attempt to run an airline on the New England island of Nantucket while surrounded by their various wacky friends and employees.The Rookies
6.8
Overview:
The Rookies is an American crime drama series that aired on ABC from 1972 until 1976. It follows the exploits of three rookie police officers working in an unidentified city for the fictitious Southern California Police Department.Cagney & Lacey
6.9
Overview:
Mary Beth Lacey and Chris Cagney are teamed up as NYPD police detectives. Their opposing personalities (one is tough and the other sensitive) mesh to make this one of the great crime-fighting duos of all time.Get a Life
7.4
Overview:
Surreal, twisted and hilariously funny, Get a Life is the ultimate anti-sitcom. Chris Peterson is a 30-year-old paperboy who still lives with his parents and who seems to have an ever decreasing grip on reality.Square Pegs
7.25
Overview:
Two awkward freshmen desperate to fit try to adjust to life at Weemawee High School.Charlie Grace
NYR
Overview:
Charlie Grace is a Los Angeles private eye with a daughter named Jenny, works along with other cops, including his partner, Crawford, to solve different multiple mystery cases.Alien Nation
6.952
Overview:
Detective Matthew Sikes, a Los Angeles police officer reluctantly works with "Newcomer" alien George Francisco. Sikes also has an 'on again off again' flirtation with a female Newcomer, Cathy Frankel.Dream On
6.9
Overview:
The family life, romantic life, and career of Martin Tupper, a divorced New York City book editor. The show distinctively interjected clips from older black and white television series to punctuate Tupper's feelings or thoughts.Paul Sand in Friends and Lovers
5
Overview:
Paul Sand in Friends and Lovers is a 1974-1975 United States comedic television series starring Paul Sand which centers around a musician in Boston, Massachusetts, and his personal relationships. It was Sand's only starring role in a television series. The show aired from September 14, 1974, to January 4, 1975.Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
6.301
Overview:
The scientist father of a teenage girl and boy accidentally shrinks his and two other neighborhood teens to the size of insects. Now the teens must fight diminutive dangers as the father searches for them.Stick Around
5
Overview:
Stick Around was an unsold television pilot for ABC, starring Andy Kaufman. Only one episode was ever made, airing on May 30, 1977. Kaufman portrayed Andy, a run-down servant robot in the future. He used the same voice of his "Foreign Man" character that would one day become the signature voice of Latka Gravas on Taxi. The pilot also starred Nancy New and Fred McCarren as Elaine and Vance Keefer, a married couple in the year 2055. The plot of the episode revolves around Andy the robot's inadequacies as an older model, and whether or not they should replace him. Vance owns an antique store, and there are a lot of jokes that revolve around his misconceptions about the antiques he has, all of which are common household appliances of the 1970s. Vance is very frustrated by Andy's incompetence but eventually he and Elaine decide to keep him. Andy would revive the robot character to some degree in the 1981 film Heartbeeps.Bates Motel
4.3
Overview:
A mentally disturbed man, who roomed with the late Norman Bates at a psychiatric facility, inherits the infamous Bates Motel after his death and attempts to fix it up as a respectable business.Acting
1998The Rat Pack as Lewis Milestone
1995Charlie Grace (1 Episode) as Dr. McCann
1995Star Trek: Voyager (1 Episode) as Vaskan Arbiter
1994Blown Away as Boston Pops Conductor (uncredited)
1994Burke's Law (1 Episode) as Clayton Franklin
1993Diagnosis: Murder (1 Episode) as Dr. Thatcher
1993Grace Under Fire (1 Episode) as Unknown
1991Home Improvement (1 Episode) as Bjorn
1991Another You as Walt
1990Get a Life (1 Episode) as Hastings
1990Dream On (1 Episode) as Andre
1990Wings (1 Episode) as Auctioneer
1989Doogie Howser, M.D. (1 Episode) as Unknown
1989Alien Nation (1 Episode) as Unknown
1989Nick Knight as Fenner
1989Honey, I Shrunk the Kids as Professor Frederickson
1989Quantum Leap (1 Episode) as The Director
1988Empty Nest (1 Episode) as The Waiter
1987Friends as The Businessman, Unknown
1987Star Trek: The Next Generation (1 Episode) as Inspector Krag
1987Bates Motel as Funeral Director
1987From the Hip as Witness (uncredited)
1986L.A. Law (1 Episode) as U.S. Attorney Donald Kelly (uncredited)
1986A Fine Mess as The Director (uncredited)
1986Betrayed by Innocence as Warren Berman
1985Amazing Stories (1 Episode) as Dick Castel
1985The Golden Girls (1 Episode) as Thurber
1985The History of White People in America as Unknown
1985Chiller as Dr. Collier
1985Do You Remember Love as Richard Vogt
1985Malice in Wonderland as Radio Producer (uncredited)
1984Murder, She Wrote (1, 1 Episode) as Felix Wesker, Rob Hazlitt
1984Night Court (1, 1 Episode) as Mr. Binnit, Steward
1982Square Pegs (3 Episodes) as Unknown
1982Cagney & Lacey (1 Episode) as Unknown
1980My Bodyguard as Griffith
1980A Small Circle of Friends as Harry Norris
1979Carol Burnett & Company (4 Episodes) as Unknown
1979Quintet as Redstone
1978The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank as Hal Watson
1978A Wedding as Capt. Reedley Roots
1977American Raspberry as Bud Schuler
1977Stick Around as Earl
1977Stick Around (1 Episode) as Earl
19773 Women as Doctor Maas
1975Barney Miller (1 Episode) as Arnold Moraz
1974Paul Sand in Friends and Lovers (15 Episodes) as Unknown
1973Blood Sport as Michael Braun
1973The Paper Chase as Willis Bell
1972The Rookies (1 Episode) as Unknown
Directing
1982Square Pegs (1 Episode) ... Director