re: 2 down 1 to go...Lauren Bacall also died.

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2 down 1 to go

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Ed Nelson, a prolific actor who became a familiar face to American television audiences over 40 years, notably as a star of the prime-time soap opera “Peyton Place,” died on Saturday in Greensboro, N.C. He was 85.

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Mr. Nelson’s career began in earnest in the mid-1950s, when he appeared in low-budget films like Roger Corman’s “Attack of the Crab Monsters.” He went on to appear in scores of popular television shows, many of them westerns during the genre’s television heyday, among them “Have Gun — Will Travel,” “Bat Masterson,” “Gunsmoke,” “Rawhide” and “The Rifleman.”

His other credits included “The Detectives,” “The Untouchables,” “The Twilight Zone” (in an episode, “Valley of the Shadow,” in which he starred as a reporter who finds himself trapped in a deceptively sleepy town), “The Fugitive,” “The F.B.I.,” “The Rockford Files” and “Quincy, M.E.”

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Edwin Stafford Nelson was born on Dec. 21, 1928, in New Orleans. He attended Tulane University there but left after two years to study acting in New York City. He returned to New Orleans to work in local television before moving to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career. He served in the Navy as a radioman on the light cruiser Dayton.

In 1972 he completed his college degree at Tulane.

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Are you doing that stupid "rule of 3s" shite?

It's funny because it never happens.

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Ill take Bea Arthur in a motorcycle accident for $200.

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Easily the saddest high profile death of the recent past.

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It's sad that also came into my head when I heard the news. It's also very eerie how often that actually happens.

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Do I need to list all the big celebrities who died without 2 others following?

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It's funny because it never happens.

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“Attack of the Crab Monsters.”

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