
Known for
Acting
Born
July 18, 1909
Birthplace
Des Moines, Iowa, USA
Died
October 2, 1994 (aged 85)
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 of saxophone-playing Ozzie Nelson and was hired by him as vocalist for his orchestra in 1932. They...
1989
1984
as Mrs. Crosley
1983
as Prof. Conklin
1982
as Charlotte
1981
1979
as Grandmother Sinclair
1979
as Mrs. Sheel
1978
1977
1976
1976
as June Pearson
1974
1974
1973
1970
1969
1969
1968
as Self (archive footage)
1962
1962
1959
as Self
1952
1952
1952
as Harriet Nelson
1950