Craig Theodore Nelson is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Hayden Fox in the ABC sitcom Coach from 1989 to 1997 and as Steve Freeling in the Poltergeist trilogy.
For Disney, he voiced Bob Parr/Mr. Incredible in the 2004 Disney/Pixar film The Incredibles and its 2018 sequel; he reprised the role again in Kinect Rush: A Disney/Pixar Adventure and the Disney Infinity franchise. He also played Joe Paxton in the 2009 Touchstone Pictures film The Proposal and Chief Howard Hyde in Turner & Hooch.
Craig Theodore Nelson was born on April 4, 1944, in Spokane, Washington. He is the son of Vera Margaret (née Spindler), a dancer, and Armand Gilbert Nelson, a businessman.
Nelson attended Lewis and Clark High School, where he played football, baseball, and basketball.
After high school, Nelson studied at Central Washington University. After flunking out, Nelson went to Yakima Valley College where he was inspired to study acting by his drama teacher, Mr. Brady. From Yakima, he went on to study drama at the University of Arizona on a scholarship.
In 1969, Nelson dropped out of school and moved to Hollywood to pursue an acting career. When he first moved to California, he took up a job as a security guard at a soap factory until finding work as a comedy writer.
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- He added his middle initial "T" to avoid confusion with fellow actor Craig Richard Nelson, who had registered his name first with the Screen Actors Guild.
