Harriet Nelson
Acting
Born July 18, 1909 · Des Moines, Iowa, USA
Biography
Harriet Nelson will always have a secure place alongside Barbara Billingsley and Jane Wyatt in the "TV's Golden Age Mom Hall of Fame." For fourteen years, she, husband Ozzie Nelson, and their two boys, David Nelson and Ricky Nelson, were the quintessential role models of the '50s ideal nuclear family. Harriet, the daughter of actors, was practically born in a trunk. She made her debut amid the footlights at age 6 weeks with her parents. The Iowa beauty attended St. Agnes Academy in her early years. Quite a dazzler in her youth, she was playing vaudeville when she attracted the attention…
Known For · 40 titles
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The Love Boat
The Merv Griffin Show
Love, American Style
What's My Line?
Fantasy Island
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet
Happy Days
Night Gallery
Dinah!
This Is Your Life
Father Dowling Mysteries
The Barbara McNair Show
Once an Eagle
Aloha Paradise
The Movie Orgy
Ozzie's Girls
Canal Zone
The Kid with the 200 I.Q.
Death Car on the Freeway
Smash-Up on Interstate 5
Here Come the Nelsons
Hi, Buddy
Follow the Fleet
The Life of the Party
Harem Scarem
Cocoanut Grove
High School U.S.A.
Juke Box Jenny
Disneyland '59
Honeymoon Lodge
The Falcon Strikes Back
Ozzie Nelson and His Orchestra
Confessions of Boston Blackie
The First Time
A Christmas for Boomer
Sweetheart of the Campus
New Faces of 1937
Hi, Good Lookin'!
Gals, Incorporated