Lloyd Nelson

Lloyd Nelson was an actor and script supervisor who began his career in radio. He was born and raised in Minneapolis, where he also attended radio school. After working at stations in the Twin Cities and the mid-south, he was drafted. In 1953 he moved to Hollywood and used the G.I. Bill to study at the Pasadena Playhouse. His movie debut was a small, uncredited part in The Court Jester (1956). Producer-director Jerry Warren noticed him in a small theater production and cast him in a lead in Man Beast (1956), the first of several Warren films; because that film was non-union, he acted under the name Lloyd Cameron. The Pasadena Playhouse helped him get work as a dialogue coach on the television series Lassie, where he coached child actor Jon Provost. He later learned script supervising on Lassie and switched to that profession. After he left script supervising, he attended a police academy and served as a reserve officer.