Barry Nelson

Robert Haakon Nielsen (April 16, 1917 – April 7, 2007), known as Barry Nelson, was an American stage, film, and television actor. He is noted as the first actor to portray Ian Fleming's secret agentJames Bond, in the 1954 American television adaptation of Casino Royale. He is also known for playing Stuart Ullman in Stanley Kubrick's 1980 psychological horror filmThe Shining. He was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for the Broadway musical The Act (1977).