Emmy award-winning actor and producer Eric Nelsen (“1883”) to star in “The Will Rogers Story.”
Director and producer Johnathan Brownlee is leading the development, alongside Nelsen. Brian Kelley of Florida Georgia Line will serve as an executive producer, where he will be joined by Waller, Greg Leftwich, Stephen Snedden, Justin Halliwell, and Molly and Rusty Reid.
“The Will Rogers Story” is the true story of William Penn Adair Rogers. Born a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, Will’s roping tricks led to success as a Vaudeville performer and then to Ziegfeld Follies on Broadway. He traveled around the globe three times, was a top radio personality, made 71 Hollywood films, and wrote more than 4,000 nationally syndicated newspaper columns.
He was the trusted advisor to American Presidents and an unofficial US Ambassador globally. Still often quoted, Rogers was hugely popular with both blue and white-collar Americans for his good-natured non-partisan political satire.
Rogers tragically died alongside aviator, Wiley Post, when their small airplane crashed in northern Alaska while Rogers was touring to promote the growth of aviation, one of the many fields in which his influence catalyzed significant transformation at the turn of the 20th century in ways still felt today the world over.
Eric Nelsen is a four-time Emmy winner, as well as a Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, GLAAD Award, Drama League Award, and Outer Critics Circle Award-winning actor and producer. Nelsen recently starred in the hit Paramount+ TV series, “1883” alongside Sam Elliott and Tim McGraw. Nelsen is repped by The Boothe Group.
This past August, he was spotlighted on “The Donna Drake Show” on CBS New York.
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