Nickname:	Nez / Mike / Woolhat
Known for:	Elephant Parts, Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, Head
Birth name:	Robert Michael Nesmith
Birthday:	30 December 1942, Houston, Texas, USA
Height:	6' 1" (1.85 m)

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Free Image Hosting - Upload your favorite celebrity pictures. He has four kids: Christian, Jonathan, Jason, and Jessica. "Elephant Parts" won the first Grammy for a video record. Michael spent fourteen months in the U.S. Air Force where he tipped over a general's airplane while cleaning it. Penned the Stone Poneys' hit "Different Drum." Linda Ronstadt sang the lead. During the 1980s he built up the largest non-theatrical home video catalog in the world called Pacific Arts Corporation. It owned rights to everything from Koyaanisqatsi (1982) to "The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau" (1966) to Ken Burns _"Civil War, The" (1990) (mini)_. Pacific Arts licensed the right to use the PBS logo on the titles in its catalog which had been aired on PBS, and developed the PBS Home Video label. The venture ended in a lawsuit with PBS that resulted in a six-week trial in federal court. A jury unanimously found PBS liable for intentional misrepresentation, intentional concealment, negligent misrepresentation, intentional interference with Pac Arts' contractual relations with the program producers and in breach of the covenant of good faith and fair dealing. They awarded Pacific Arts and Nesmith real and punitive damages totaling more than $47,000,000. PBS and Nesmith subsequently settled for an undisclosed sum. Had published several songs through different companies before signing his contracts for The Monkees; Nesmith's "Mary, Mary" had already been a hit for the Butterfield Blues Band. With Nesmith signed to Screen Gems as a songwriter, the company next bought up Nesmith's earlier publishing, so his songs could be used for the Monkees. Arrived for his first interview for The Monkees wearing a wool cap, to keep the hair out of his eyes while driving his motorcycle around town (Nesmith also carried a bag of laundry, to be done at a nearby laundromat on his way home). Producers Bob Rafelson and Bert Schneider remembered him as "Wool Hat"; they wanted to name his Monkees character that, but Nesmith refused. He was was invited to the famous orchestral session for "A Day In The Life" by John Lennon. He has an on line store called videoranch.com that allows customers to buy his works straight from him. Products include CDs, DVDs, and music downloads. Shares a birthday with fellow Monkee Davy Jones. The Monkees were awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Recording at 6675 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California.

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