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Haywood Nelson is a Actor American born on 25 march 1960 at New York City (USA)
Haywood Nelson (born March 25, 1960 in New York City) is an American actor. He is best known for having portrayed Dwayne Nelson on the television series What's Happening!! from 1976-1979, and its spin-off series What's Happening Now!! 1985-1988.
Nelson still works in entertainment, although mainly behind the scenes; he has worked in talk shows, TV shows and interview programs. He is a member of the Church of Scientology.
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Haywood Nelson
Biography
Nelson was a child star, appearing in many national commercials and in a movie, Mixed Company. From 1973 to 1974 he performed on Broadway alongside Marlo Thomas in Thieves. At the age of 14, he guest starred on Sanford and Son (1972) as Grady's grandson; at 15, he was in the cast of a spin-off of Sanford and Son called Grady (1975). The show was short-lived. The next year, in 1976, at the age of 16, he landed the role of Dwayne on What's Happening!!, the first African-American teen sitcom. As a "teenage heartthrob" on a popular television series, Nelson was one of the first African-American teen idols.Nelson still works in entertainment, although mainly behind the scenes; he has worked in talk shows, TV shows and interview programs. He is a member of the Church of Scientology.
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, 1h38Directed by Sam Weisman
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about television
Actors Mary McCormack, David Spade, Craig Bierko, Rob Reiner, Scott Terra, Jenna Boyd
Roles Self
Rating54%
Dickie Roberts is a former child star who shot to fame on a TV sitcom called The Glimmer Gang with his catchphrase "This is Nuckin' Futs!". His career subsequently halted after his 6th birthday. Since his heyday, he has been reduced to parking cars at Morton's and appearing on Celebrity Boxing, where he is matched with Emmanuel Lewis. In the public eye and to his girlfriend Cyndi who apparently leaves him during a roadside incident, Dickie is washed up.
Evilspeak (1981)
, 1h29Directed by Eric Weston
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Actors Clint Howard, R.G. Armstrong, Joseph Cortese, Haywood Nelson, Don Stark, Charles Tyner
Roles Kowalski
Rating55%
In the film's opening scenes, we see Satanic leader Father Estaban (Richard Moll) and his followers on the shore of Spain during the Dark Ages. They are approached by a church official who tells them they are banished from Spain and denied God's grace unless they renounce Satan and their evil ways.
Mixed Company (1974)
, 1h49Directed by Melville Shavelson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about adoption, Films about children, Films about families, Sports films, Basketball films
Actors Barbara Harris, Joseph Bologna, Tom Bosley, Ruth McDevitt, Haywood Nelson, Lisa Gerritsen
Roles Freddie
Rating57%
Kathy Morrison (Harris), mother of three, who helps run a "color-blind" adoption program, wants to have another biological child. Her husband, Pete (Bologna), the head coach of the Phoenix Suns, finds out he can't produce another child. Kathy thinks about adopting a boy, Frederic "Freddie" Wilcox, and Pete does not want to adopt a boy who happens to be black. When he relents, Freddie's arrival causes an upheaval in the Morrison's neighborhood, their school, and family. Kathy's answer is to adopt another child, in this case two, a war-traumatized half-Vietnamese girl, Quan Tran, and a Hopi boy, Joe. The new extended family must now learn to live together.