- Born
- Height6′ 2″ (1.88 m)
- Alan served as a journalist for several years, and broke the original story on the rivalry between Branch Davidian prophets Roden and Vernon Howell (aka David Koresh) which culminated a few years later in the more famous shootout between the cult and the ATF in 1993. Alan then went to law school, made law review, and became a successful lawyer in civil litigation and remains an active member of the Texas State Bar and American Inns of Court. He also is a widely published writer and is a member of Poets and Writers.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Nelson
- J. Alan Nelson played Elwood P. Dowd in Harvey in high school. When his nephew, Henry, played the same role and won best actor in a UIL contest, it inspired Nelson to resume acting.
- Has 2 children with wife Susan.
- Once an avid party crasher, Nelson retired after spending an uninvited hour with President Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Al Gore and Tipper Gore in 1996.
- During the fall semester of his sophomore year at college, Nelson sold sporting goods to universities, high schools and consumers off the street, waited tables at night, worked as a caretaker in a historic home, transferred the university's book holdings from the Dewey decimal system to the U.S. Library of Congress while checking out books, and sold blood twice a week at a plasma center for cash. He did these money-making activities were done while he carried a class load of 18 hours and ran 10 miles per day.
- J. Alan Nelson's ancestry is Choctaw, German, Jewish, Scottish, French and English.
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