
August 12, 1916 · 109 years old
Elseen Leo Ralph Nelson (August 12, 1916 – December 21, 1987) was an American movie and television director, producer, writer, and actor. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ralph Nelson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

A travelling handyman becomes the answer to the prayers of nuns who wish to build a chapel in the desert.

During World War II, a man persuaded to live on an isolated island and spot aircraft finds himself responsible for a teacher and several students, all female.

An intellectually disabled man undergoes an experiment that gives him the intelligence of a genius.

After a cavalry patrol is ambushed by the Cheyenne, the two survivors, a soldier and a woman, must reach the safety of the nearest fort.

After suffering a brutal defeat and being told he can no longer fight, 37-year-old, scar-ridden prizefighter Louis 'Mountain' Rivera struggles to find a new direction in life.

In Apache territory, a supply Army column heads for the next fort, an ex-scout searches for the killer of his Indian wife, and a housewife abandons her husband in order to rejoin her Apache lover's tribe.

A black anti-Apartheid activist and a British engineer are forced to run from South African Secret Police.

Racial tensions threaten to explode when a black man is elected Sheriff of a small, racially divided town in the deep south.