I had to add the middle initial "T" so he wouldn't be confused with the actor Craig Richard Nelson, who was the first to register his name with the Screen Actors Guild.
He was offered the role of "Jay Pritchett" for the pilot of Modern Family (2009), but turned it down.
Before starting his acting career in 1971, he began his career as a comedian.
He holds a brown belt in Tae Kwon Do.
As of 2018, he has three children, eight grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
He has a very interesting birth date. 4/4/44.
Early in his career he formed a comedy team with Barry Levinson and Rudy De Luca.
Before becoming an actor, he wanted to be a seaplane racer. His father doubted this and said it would be an impossible achievement, like becoming an actor.
Former radio performer and stand-up comedian.
He enjoys driving race cars.
Aside from filming Coach (1989), he appeared in Shedd's Spread Country Crock margarine commercials for his screen work.
He has a great talent for playing unpleasant characters, as in "Silkwood" or "The Killing Fields."
A golf enthusiast and a member of the Sherwood Country Club in Thousand Oaks, CA.
He studied at the University of Arizona.
He was one of the first members of the improvisational comedy group The Groundlings.
His father's grandfather was of Norwegian origin and his maternal grandfather was of German origin. His other roots are English, Scotch-Irish (Northern Ireland) and more distant Dutch.
He studied at Central Washington University.
He is the father of Noah Nelson.
He is the former father-in-law of Ashley Jones, who played "Bridget Forrester" on The Bold and the Beautiful (1987).
He appeared in a film nominated for Best Picture: The Killing Fields (1984).
He appeared in a film selected by the Library of Congress for the National Film Registry as "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: The Incredibles (2004).