Carolyn Nelson

Carolyn Nelson is the former actress who played "Yeoman Atkins" in the second season episode . She filmed her scenes on Friday and Wednesday at Desilu Stage 9.
In November 1970, Nelson married director Joseph Sargent, and aside from her appearance in "The Deadly Years" and a guest appearance on The Beverly Hillbillies, "Red Skelton Show", "Run for Your Life" "The Lucille Ball Show", most of her acting appearances were under her late husband's direction. They were married for forty-four years.
These include the acclaimed 1974 film The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (also featuring Bill Cobbs) and such made-for-television movies as Man on a String (1972, with William Schallert, James B. Sikking, Garry Walberg, and Byron Morrow), The Marcus-Nelson Murders (1973, with Lawrence Pressman and Bill Zuckert), Memorial Day (1983, with Alan Oppenheimer and Bert Remsen), and Ivory Hunters (1990, with Tony Todd).
In 1974 she formed the , which became fully incorporated in 1977. Her Malibu-based arts clinic provides free classes in all the arts such as writing, acting, dance, music to over 300,000 children and teenagers a year. Later in 1991, she and her husband laid the groundwork for the , both driven, in part, by Nelson's own childhood hearing loss, and her use of art to emerge from the sadness and isolation it caused. 
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