John Nielsen(1958-2021)
- Actor
- Producer
John was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York into a cop and fireman
family. He began college studying aeronautical engineering at
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida. After
working at the Brooklyn Navy Yard as a shipfitter off and on over many
years, he returned to school attending Herbert H. Lehman College (CUNY)
in the Bronx where he discovered acting. He then spent a few years
doing regional theater in Seattle before moving to Los Angeles in 1989.
He did several commercials, TV guest spots, and small movie parts
before being cast as a series regular on Nickelodeon's "The Secret
World Of Alex Mack."
