Michael Nelson or Mike Nelson may refer to:
Michael R. "Mike" Nelson is an American politician from North Carolina.
A Democrat, Nelson is a former mayor of Carrboro, North Carolina and the first openly gay person to be elected as a mayor of a North Carolina city. Nelson was elected in 1995 after serving two years on the Carrboro Board of Aldermen. He served five consecutive terms as mayor from 1995 to 2005. He has since moved to Hillsborough, North Carolina.
In November 2006, Nelson was elected to serve a four-year term on the Orange County Board of Commissioners. In 2007, he announced his intention to run for the North Carolina Senate in 2008, seeking to replace retiring Sen. Ellie Kinnaird in the reliably-Democratic 23rd district, which contains Orange and Person counties. When Kinnaird changed her mind and decided to run for re-election, Nelson suspended his own campaign.
Nelson worked as the Director of Governmental Relations for the Conservation Council of North Carolina, an environmental advocacy group. In May 2008, he began appearing in television commercials in which supported moving freight by train over truck travel. Currently, Nelson is working as a Field Service Coordinator with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. Nelson has a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Mike Nelson (full name Michael John Nelson) is a fictional character in the comedy science fiction television series Mystery Science Theater 3000. Portrayed by actor/head writer Michael J. Nelson, Mike is a likable, sometimes dim temp worker from Wisconsin who comes to work for the mad scientists ("Mads") Dr. Clayton Forrester and TV's Frank in Deep 13 while they prepare for an evil-scientist audit in episode 512, Mitchell.
When Joel Robinson escapes from the Satellite of Love at the end of this episode, the "Mads" knock Mike unconscious and shoot him up to the satellite to replace Joel as their experimental guinea pig. The hapless Mike finds himself forced to watch bad movies with robot companions Tom Servo and Crow T. Robot while interjecting humorous quips and cultural riffs based on the action and dialog of the films. Nelson's first full appearance was episode 513, The Brain That Wouldn't Die. He typically wore either a dark green jumpsuit, a teal jumpsuit or a blue jumpsuit.
Actors: Daniel Baldwin (actor), Andy Bowles (actor), Rick Frederick (actor), Jerry Nelson (actor), Tim O'Neal (actor), Mike Roberts (actor), Jason Ucab (actor), Danny Weiner (actor), Kristen Wojciechowski (actor), Patrice Broderick (actress), Mayra Leal (actress), Judy McMillan (actress), Misty Miller (actress), Angelita Aronce Sorensen (actress), Marc Abrams (actor),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Trace Beaulieu (actor), Joel Hodgson (actor), Kevin Murphy (actor), Michael J. Nelson (actor), Joel Hodgson (producer), Jim Mallon (producer), Trace Beaulieu (writer), Paul Chaplin (writer), Frank Conniff (writer), Colleen Henjum (writer), Joel Hodgson (writer), Bridget Jones (writer), Jim Mallon (writer), Kevin Murphy (writer), Michael J. Nelson (writer),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Trace Beaulieu (actor), Bill Corbett (actor), Kevin Murphy (actor), Michael J. Nelson (actor), Jim Mallon (producer), Kevin Murphy (producer), Paul Chaplin (writer), Bill Corbett (writer), Bridget Jones (writer), Kevin Murphy (writer), Michael J. Nelson (writer), Mary Jo Pehl (writer), Kevin Murphy (director), Bradley J. Keely (editor),
Genres: Comedy, Sci-Fi,Actors: Bill Corbett (actor), Kevin Murphy (actor), Michael J. Nelson (actor), Jim Mallon (producer), Kevin Murphy (producer), Paul Chaplin (writer), Bill Corbett (writer), Joel Hodgson (writer), Bridget Jones (writer), Kevin Murphy (writer), Michael J. Nelson (writer), Mary Jo Pehl (writer), Michael J. Nelson (director), Bradley J. Keely (editor), Tim Johnson (miscellaneous crew),
Genres: Comedy, Sci-Fi, Short,Actors: Luc Besson (actor), George Clooney (actor), Bill Corbett (actor), Bill Corbett (actor), Kevin Murphy (actor), Kevin Murphy (actor), Michael J. Nelson (actor), Pete Postlethwaite (actor), Joel Schumacher (actor), Steven Spielberg (actor), Bruce Willis (actor), Julianne Moore (actress), Mary Jo Pehl (actress), Alicia Silverstone (actress), Jim Mallon (producer),
Genres: Comedy, Sci-Fi, Short,Actors: Trace Beaulieu (actor), Tony Fucile (actor), Elton John (actor), Jim Mallon (actor), Kevin Murphy (actor), Michael J. Nelson (actor), Robert Redford (actor), Quentin Tarantino (actor), John Travolta (actor), Robert Zemeckis (actor), Jim Mallon (producer), Kevin Murphy (producer), Trace Beaulieu (writer), Paul Chaplin (writer), Joel Hodgson (writer),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Joseph L. Altruda (actor), Philip Anagnos (actor), Michael J. Anderson (actor), Dana Ashbrook (actor), Joe Berman (actor), David Bowie (actor), David Brisbin (actor), Gary Bullock (actor), Eric DaRe (actor), G. Kenneth Davidson (actor), Don S. Davis (actor), C.H. Evans (actor), Miguel Ferrer (actor), Warren Frost (actor), Rick Aiello (actor),
Plot: Essentially a prequel to David Lynch and Mark Frost's earlier TV series "Twin Peaks". The first half-hour or so concerns the investigation by FBI Agent Chet Desmond (Chris Isaak) and his partner Sam Stanley (Kiefer Sutherland) into the murder of night-shift waitress Teresa Banks in the small Washington state town of Deer Meadow. When Desmond finds a mysterious clue to the murder, he inexplicably disappears. The film then cuts to one year later in the nearby town of Twin Peaks and follows the events during the last week in the life of Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee) a troubled teenage girl with two boyfriends; the hot-tempered rebel Bobby Briggs (Dana Ashbrook) and quiet biker James Hurley (James Marshall), her drug addiction, and her relationship with her difficult (and possible schizophrenic) father Leland (Ray Wise), a story in which her violent murder was later to motivate much of the TV series. Contains a considerable amount of sex, drugs, violence, very loud music and inexplicable imagery.
Keywords: 1980s, abandoned-train, actor-shares-first-name-with-character, agoraphobia, angel, avant-garde, bare-breasts, based-on-cult-tv-series, based-on-tv-series, bedActors: Bruce Campbell (actor), Chase Cordell (actor), Derek Cordier (actor), Robert Davido (actor), Jerry Emerson (actor), Dick Fontaine (actor), Bruce Globig (actor), Jon Hayes (actor), Jack Hinrichs (actor), Kirk Honeycutt (actor), Berlan Irwin (actor), Terry Lemoine (actor), Stephen Lester (actor), Brett Mariott (actor), Scot Arden (actor),
Genres: Drama, Mystery,Actors: Patrick Allen (actor), John Bentley (actor), Sydney Chaplin (actor), Jefferson Clifford (actor), Edward Dane (actor), Felix Felton (actor), Peter Hammond (actor), Percy Herbert (actor), Richard Huggett (actor), Pat McGrath (actor), Hugh Munro (actor), Robert Raglan (actor), Alan Robinson (actor), Eddie Stafford (actor), John Welsh (actor),
Genres: Crime, Drama,Actors: Murray Alper (actor), Alan Anderson (actor), Herbert Anderson (actor), Warner Anderson (actor), Irving Bacon (actor), Louis Bednarcik (actor), Irving Berlin (actor), Dick Bernie (actor), Carlyle Blackwell Jr. (actor), Jackie Brown (actor), Marion Brown (actor), Angelo Buono (actor), James Burrell (actor), Jimmy Butler (actor), The Allon Trio (actor),
Plot: In WWI dancer Jerry Jones stages an all-soldier show on Broadway, called Yip Yip Yaphank. Wounded in the war, he becomes a producer. In WWII his son Johnny Jones, who was before his father's assistant, gets the order to stage a new all-soldier show, called This is the Army. But in his personal life he has problems, because he refuses to marry his fiancée until the war is over.
Keywords: based-on-stage-musical, basic-training, blackface, famous-song, man-dressed-as-woman, military, minstrel-show, orchestral-music-score, patriotism, showMichael Nelson or Mike Nelson may refer to: