American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

Craig T. Nelson

Craig Theodore Nelson is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Hayden Fox in the ABC sitcom Coach, Deputy Warden Ward Wilson in Stir Crazy (1980), Steve Freeling in Poltergeist (1982), Burt Nickerson in All the Right Moves (1983), Peter Dellaplane in Action Jackson (1988), Chief Howard Hyde in Turner & Hooch (1989), Alex Cullen in The Devil's Advocate (1997), Chief Jack Mannion in the CBS drama The District (2000–2004), Coach Goddard in Blades of Glory (2007), The Warden in the NBC sitcom My Name Is Earl (2007), and the voice of Mr. Incredible in the 2004 film The Incredibles and its 2018 sequel.

Born

1944

April 4

Died

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1940s

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1944 Born

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What else happened on this day, through history

-503 Roman consul Agrippa Menenius Lanatus celebrates a triumph for a military victory over the Sabines.
190 Dong Zhuo has his troops evacuate the capital Luoyang and burn it to the ground.
611 Maya king Uneh Chan of Calakmul sacks rival city-state Palenque in southern Mexico.
619 The Bijapur-Mumbai inscription is issued by Pulakeshin II, describing the Battle of Narmada.: 207

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The world in 1944

When Craig arrived

april 1 World War II: Navigation errors lead to an accidental American bombing of the Swiss city of Schaffhausen.
april 10 Rudolf Vrba and Alfréd Wetzler escape from Birkenau death camp.
april 16 World War II: Allied forces start bombing Belgrade, killing about 1,100 people. This bombing fell on the Orthodox Christian Easter.
april 17 Forces of the Communist-controlled Greek People's Liberation Army attack the smaller National and Social Liberation resistance group, which surrenders. Its leader Dimitrios Psarros is murdered.

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Same-day contemporaries

Also born on April 4

Đặng Thân 1964– Vietnamese writer and poet Barry Pepper 1970– Canadian actor and producer Bea Benaderet 1906–1968 Turkish-Irish-American television, radio, and voice actress (died 1968) Caracalla 188–217 Roman emperor (died 217) Hugo Weaving 1960– Nigerian-Australian actor and producer Magda Aelvoet 1944– Belgian politician Makhanlal Chaturvedi 1889–1968 Indian journalist, poet, and playwright (died 1968) Mary Colter 1869–1958 American architect, designed the Desert View Watchtower (died 1958) Nachman of Breslov 1772–1810 Ukrainian founder of the Breslov Hasidic movement (died 1810)

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1944

Al Kooper 1944– American singer-songwriter and producer Al Michaels 1944– American sportscaster Angélica María 1944– American-born Mexican singer-songwriter and actress Anne Robinson 1944– English journalist and game show host António Variações 1944–1984 Portuguese musician (died 1984) Azizan Abdul Razak 1944–2013 Malaysian politician, 10th Menteri Besar of Kedah (died 2013) Ban Ki-moon 1944– South Korean politician and diplomat, 8th Secretary-General of the United Nations Barry White 1944–2003 American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (born 1944) Carlos Alberto Torres 1944–2016 Brazilian footballer and manager (died 2016)

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