With Nelson headlining The District on H&I, we wanted to shine a spotlight on his earlier television career. So it should not have been a surprise that he was equally skilled in sitcoms and dramas. He began his showbiz career performing stand-up and honing his improv skills as a member of the Groundlings. In many ways, he continued to play that same role, from playing Tom Cruise's football coach in All the Right Moves to the hippie, Vietnam-vet patriarch on Parenthood.īut Nelson's roots were in comedy. Nelson perfectly nailed the part of a man who once had a wild past and now found himself in a role of heavy responsibility. He was suburban, aspirational, manly, good with his kids, and with a pinch of repressed counterculture cool. Heck, in one early scene he reads Reagan: The Man, The President while his wife rolls a joint. He became a model man of the era, transitioning from the free-spirited '70s to Yuppie-dom. The Steven Spielberg-produced (and some say, er, "ghost" directed) 1982 blockbuster cast the relatively unknown actor as the prototypical early-'80s dad. For us, personally, our first encounter with Craig T.
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