Alberta Nelson
Alberta Nelson was an American television and film actress. After several dramatic parts in television in the early 1960s, she made four appearances on The Andy Griffith Show.
Early years
Nelson was born in Erie, Pennsylvania, to Frank Alton Nelson and Katherine Storkel Stephens Nelson. Her only sibling was a half-sister, Irene Stephens McAleer. After graduating from the Andrews School for Girls in Willoughby, Ohio, in 1955, she briefly attended St. John's Hospital School of Nursing in Cleveland, Ohio. In the late 1950s, she moved to New York City, where she modeled and did theatre acting.Career
With the urging and assistance of her cousin, the theatrical producer John Kenley, Nelson ventured into acting with the Erie Playhouse in Erie, Pennsylvania, and eventually played the lead in a production of The Seven Year Itch. She went on to appear in Broadway plays including Once There Was a Russian, The Wall, and The Gang's All Here.Nelson appeared in seven movies in the 1960s as one of Eric Von Zipper's "mice" in the American International Beach Party series. She made four appearances on The Andy Griffith Show, all but one as waitress Flora Malherbe.
In 1965 she appeared in a memorable episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show as Ritchie's teacher, Miss Reshovsky.
Nelson starred in 1970s The Wild Scene as Dr. Virginia Grant, a female psychiatrist who talks graphically about her tawdriest cases. This and a 1970 appearance on Love, American Style would be Nelson's last credited roles.