Ozzie NelsonFilmography

Swing, Swing, Swing!, Vol. 1

Stage Bands on Film

Adam-12: The Dinosaur

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The titular "dinosaur" is veteran police officer Art McCall, played by prolific movie bad guy Warren Stevens. Sidelined by an injury, McCall returns to the LAPD after an eight-year absence. Unfortunately, he is unable to adjust to the changes made in law enforcement during those eight years, and Read More

Adam-12: The Grandmothers

Crew: Director

Synopsis: One of the title characters in this episode is played by veteran comic actress Florence Lake, best remembered for her appearances as Mrs. Edgar Kennedy in a series of popular two-reelers of the 1930s and 1940s. This "grandmother" is but one of several civilians encountered by Officers Jim Reed Read More

The Impossible Years

Actors: David Niven, Lola Albright, Chad Everett, Ozzie Nelson, Cristina Ferrare

Synopsis: This situation comedy comes from a Bob Fisher and Arthur Marx play. Jonathan Kingsley (David Niven) is the teaching psychiatrist at the local university and is happily married to his wife Alice (Lola Albright). The couple has two teenage daughters, and the trouble begins when the oldest daughter Read More

Love and Kisses

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Ricky Nelson, Jack Kelly, Kristin Nelson, Jerry Van Dyke, Pert Kelton

Synopsis: In this domestic comedy, a high school graduate causes chaos when he tells his parents that he is going to get married and remain at home. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet: Season 13

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Executive Producer

Actors: Ozzie Nelson, Harriet Nelson, David Nelson, Ricky Nelson, June Nelson

Synopsis: Ozzie Nelson and Harriet Nelson are both suffering from "empty nest" syndrome as Ozzie & Harriet enters its 13th season. While the elder Nelsons remain in their familiar suburban home (complete with that garish-looking brass eagle over the fireplace!), their sons David Nelson and Ricky Nelson have Read More

The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet: Season 12

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Executive Producer

Actors: Ozzie Nelson, Harriet Nelson, David Nelson, Ricky Nelson, June Nelson

Synopsis: Season 12 of the ABC sitcom The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet opens with a brace of "leftover" episodes from season 11, "Torn Dress" and "Secret Agent." The remainder of the season consists of 25 new episodes, interspersed with classic reruns from seasons past. Ozzie Nelson remains the series' Read More

The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet: Season 11

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Executive Producer

Actors: Ozzie Nelson, Harriet Nelson, David Nelson, Ricky Nelson, June Nelson

Synopsis: In its 11th year on the air, The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet continues to follow the formula established in its most recent seasons. Though top-billed, Ozzie Nelson and Harriet Nelson have ceded the series' "stardom" to their now-adult sons, David Nelson and Ricky Nelson -- especially Ricky, who Read More

The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet: Season 10

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Executive Producer

Actors: Ozzie Nelson, Harriet Nelson, David Nelson, Ricky Nelson, June Nelson

Synopsis: The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet launches its record-breaking (for a TV sitcom) tenth season with "Dancing Lessons," in which Harriet Nelson goads her two-left-feet hubby Ozzie Nelson to improve his terpsichorean skills. It is one of the few times during season ten that the focus is exclusively Read More

The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet: Season 09

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Executive Producer

Actors: Ozzie Nelson, Harriet Nelson, David Nelson, Ricky Nelson

Synopsis: Whether it was known by its official title The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet or its temporary on-screen title The Adventures of the Nelson Family, the fact remained that the sitcom about "America's favorite family" entered its ninth season in the fall of 1960. Still in charge of the proceedings Read More

The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet: Season 08

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Executive Producer

Actors: Ozzie Nelson, Harriet Nelson, David Nelson, Ricky Nelson

Synopsis: Halfway through its eighth season on ABC, the popular domestic sitcom The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet briefly underwent a title change -- at least in the on-screen credits -- to The Adventures of the Nelson Family. This was a reflection of the fact that fewer and fewer episodes are devoted to Read More

The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet: Season 07

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Executive Producer

Actors: Ozzie Nelson, Harriet Nelson, David Nelson, Ricky Nelson

Synopsis: So here's the setup for season seven of The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet: Ozzie Nelson continues to wear several hats as top-billed star, producer, director, and co-writer; Harriet Nelson is still on hand to dispense wisdom and common sense to her scatterbrained husband and her ever-growing Read More

The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet: The Bachelor

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Executive Producer

Actors: Ozzie Nelson, Harriet Nelson, David Nelson, Ricky Nelson, June Nelson

Synopsis: Season 14 of The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet is the series' first season in color -- and its last on the air. Diminishing ratings were only one of the many factors motivating the decision to pull the plug. Series star Ozzie Nelson and his wife Harriet Nelson wanted to explore new and different Read More

The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet: Season 06

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Executive Producer

Actors: Ozzie Nelson, Harriet Nelson, David Nelson, Ricky Nelson

Synopsis: Season six of The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet still finds Ozzie Nelson, as cheerfully "unemployed" as ever, gently ruling the roost at the Nelson family household, with level-headed spouse Harriet Nelson at his side. Oldest son David Nelson is now in his third year of college, dividing his time Read More

The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet: Season 05

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Executive Producer

Actors: Ozzie Nelson, Harriet Nelson, David Nelson, Ricky Nelson

Synopsis: Placed in a cultural history context, the fifth season of The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet takes on an importance of earth-shattering dimensions. Not that the basic format of the series has changed all that much: Ozzie Nelson still rules the roost in his family home even without any visible means Read More

The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet: Busy Christmas

The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet: Season 04

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Executive Producer

Actors: Ozzie Nelson, Harriet Nelson, David Nelson, Ricky Nelson

Synopsis: About the only major change occurring during the fourth season of The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet is the introduction of a new supporting character, Ozzie's neighbor and friend Joe Randolph, played by the ubiquitous Lyle Talbot. Otherwise, it is the same hilarious mixture as before, with Read More

The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet: Season 03

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Executive Producer

Actors: Ozzie Nelson, Harriet Nelson, David Nelson, Ricky Nelson

Synopsis: Season three of The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet yields a mere 28 episodes in contrast to the 39 seen in each of the previous seasons, but there is still ample time to savor the talents of Ozzie Nelson, his wife Harriet Nelson, and their ever-growing sons David Nelson (now 17 going on 18) and Ricky Nelson Read More

The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet: Season 02

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Executive Producer

Actors: Ozzie Nelson, Harriet Nelson, David Nelson, Ricky Nelson

Synopsis: The matriculation of ABC from a regional to a national network in 1953 did a world of good for the network's best sitcom The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet. Although the series did not crack the Top Ten or even the Top 20 during its second season on the air, it was extremely popular in those cities Read More

The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet [TV Series]

Crew: Director

Synopsis: If anyone can be labelled a television auteur, that man was the inimitable Ozzie Nelson. Not only did Ozzie produce, direct, star and occasionally write the long-running (1952-66) TV sitcom The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, but he also supplied the cast from his own home! You remember Read More

Christmas With the Nelsons

Here Come the Nelsons

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Ozzie Nelson, Harriet Nelson, David Nelson, Ricky Nelson, Rock Hudson

Synopsis: Fresh from radio and TV, "America's Favorite Family" stars in Here Come the Nelsons. That's right: this harmless little comedy is purely a vehicle for Ozzie, Harriet, David and Ricky. Since there must be a plot, the scriptwriters contrive to have Harriet uncharacteristically express jealousy over Read More

The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet: The Late Christmas Gift

The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet: Season 01

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Executive Producer

Actors: Ozzie Nelson, Harriet Nelson, David Nelson, Ricky Nelson

Synopsis: Having convinced the execs at ABC that his popular radio show could be successfully transferred to television by conceiving the theatrical feature Here Come the Nelsons, bandleader/comedian/producer Ozzie Nelson launches his 14-year TV run on The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet. Joining Ozzie in Read More

People Are Funny

Actors: Jack Haley, Helen Walker, Rudy Vallee, Ozzie Nelson, Phillip Reed

Synopsis: Art Linkletter had only recently taken over the popular audience-participation radio series People are Funny from Art Baker when he appeared as "himself" in this lighthearted musical comedy. The film's plot concerns a rivalry between two radio producers, both of whom want to produce a Read More

The Big Street

Actors: Henry Fonda, Lucille Ball, Agnes Moorehead, Barton MacLane, Eugene Pallette

Synopsis: Lucille Ball delivers the finest dramatic performance of her career in this satisfying adaptation of Damon Runyon's The Big Street. Ball is cast as Gloria, aka "Your Highness," the vain and thoroughly selfish star attraction of gangster Case Ables' (Barton MacLaine) New York nightclub. Henry Fonda Read More

Strictly in the Groove

Actors: Mary Healy, Richard Davies, Leon Errol, Shemp Howard, Grace McDonald

Synopsis: A college student's passion for swinging music leads him to found his own band. When he starts spending more time playing music than studying, his father, a prominent hotelier, steps in and sends the lad to a dude ranch in Arizona. Undeterred, the boy brings the band with him. Once there, he Read More

Sweetheart of the Campus

Actors: Ruby Keeler, Ozzie Nelson, Harriet Hilliard, Gordon Oliver, Don Beddoe

Synopsis: Ruby Keeler made her final screen starring appearance in the Columbia musical Sweetheart of the Campus. Keeler plays Betty Blake, lead vocalist for Ozzie Nelson's orchestra. While performing a one-night stand at a college campus, Betty vows to prevent a hostile takeover of the establishment by Read More