Editing Ed Nelson (section)

==Personal life==
While living in Los Angeles, Nelson was an active member of the [[Screen Actors Guild]] and was elected to the union board for many years. Nelson was a long-standing member of the [[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]]. In the early 1970s, he ran for city council and mayor of San Dimas, California until a [[Federal Communications Commission]] ruling stated that his political opponents must be given equal time if he appeared in television programs.<ref>{{cite news| title=FCC in Another Blunder| newspaper=[[Pasadena Star-News|Pasadena Independent]]| url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2335563/ed_nelson_fcc/|date=March 8, 1972| page=15| via=[[Newspapers.com]]| access-date = May 3, 2015}}</ref>