 "Numb3rs" .... Bill Waldie (2 episodes, 2005-2006)
... aka Num3ers (USA: promotional title)
- Hardball (2006) TV Episode .... Bill Waldie
- Scorched (2005) TV Episode .... Bill Waldie
Rocketboy (2006) .... Payload Specialist
"The Eyes of Nye" (2005) TV Series .... Host
"Get Real" .... Mr. Stone (1 episode, 2000)
- Guilt (2000) TV Episode .... Mr. Stone
"BattleBots" (2000) TV Series .... Technical Expert
... aka Comedy Central's BattleBots (USA)
Principal Takes a Holiday (1998) (TV) .... Science Teacher
Astronauts (1997) (TV) .... Narrator
Height
6' 1" (1.85 m)
Spouse
Blair Tindall (3 February 2006 - 28 March 2006) (annulled)
Trivia
Schools Attended: Lafayette Elementary School and Sidwell Friends School both in Washington, DC. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
Worked as an Engineer at Boeing, in Seattle, and appeared in at least 3 training films - some of which are still popular among the workers there.
Started his career after he won a Steve Martin lookalike contest.
His father, Edwin D. "Ned" Nye, a quartermaster in the military during World War II, spent nearly four years as a prisoner of war mostly in China in a Japanese P.O.W camp. He later moved to Washington, DC where he discovered dozens of sundials. He photographed them and wrote an unusual book, "Sundials of Maryland and Virginia." Thus resulted a little family business selling Ned Nye's "Sandial®," a sundial suitable for the beaches of the Atlantic seaboard.
Self proclaimed geek in high school. He wore a tie everyday, even when that aspect of the dress code was phased out. He graduated from Sidwell Friends School in Washington, DC.
He designed a hydraulic pressure resonance suppressor which is used in Boeing 747s.
His first childhood memory is throwing a rubber band-powered airplane, the Sky Streak, and figuring out how to make it turn left so he could stay in one place and make the plane come back to him.
An honored "Rhodes Class of '56 Visiting Professor" at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, from which he received his Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering. There, he studied under Carl Sagan.
Premiered "the Science Guy" on a Seattle sketch comedy show called "Almost Live".
Enjoys 30s/40s style swing dancing and attended dances at the most recent Camp Hollywood.
Announced he was engaged to be married on his most recent appearance on _"Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, The"_(2005) in December 2005.
IMDB gets the credit
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