James Olson
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- October 8, 1930
- Died
- April 17, 2022 (aged 91)
- Birthplace
- Evanston, Illinois, USA
Biography
James Olson (October 8, 1930 – April 17, 2022) was an American actor. From 1952 until 1954, he was a military policeman in the United States Army. He performed stage work in and around Chicago before his 1956 film debut in The Sharkfighters. His Broadway credits include Of Love Remembered (1967), Slapstick Tragedy (1966), The Three Sisters (1964), The Chinese Prime Minister (1964), Romulus (1962), J.B. (1958), The Sin of Pat Muldoon (1957), and The Young and Beautiful (1955). He starred alongside Joanne Woodward in the Academy Award nominee for Best Picture Rachel, Rachel in 1968. He made numerous stage, feature film, and TV appearances from the mid-1950s until 1990, when he retired. On television, Olson portrayed Mickey Mantle in The Life of Mickey Mantle. His other TV appearances included guest roles on scores of shows, including episodes of Kraft Television Theatre; Ironside; Murder, She Wrote; Little House on the Prairie; Hawaii Five-O; Battlestar Galactica; Lou Grant; The Bionic Woman; Wonder Woman; Mannix; Bonanza; Have Gun-Will Travel; Marcus Welby, M.D.; Police Woman; Barnaby Jones; The New Land; Columbo; Maude; The Virginian; The Streets of San Francisco; and Cannon. Description above from the Wikipedia article James Olson (actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Filmography
The Family Man
TV · 1 ep
Rachel River
Movie · as Jack Canon
Jake and the Fatman
TV · 1 ep
One Police Plaza
Movie · as Whitney Zangline
Commando
Movie · as Major General Franklin Kirby
North Beach and Rawhide
Movie · as Bill Cassidy
The Parade
Movie · as Andy Janacek
Murder, She Wrote
TV · as Clarence La Rue · 1 ep
Cave-In!
Movie · as Tom Arlen
Amityville II: The Possession
Movie · as Father Adamsky
Matt Houston
TV · 1 ep
American Playhouse
TV · as Jack Canon · 1 ep
Ragtime
Movie · as Father
The Silent Lovers
Movie · as Victor Seastrom
Visions of Christmas Past
Movie
No Prince for My Cinderella
Movie · as Burt Williams
The Mafu Cage
Movie · as David
Project U.F.O.
TV · 1 ep
The Runaways
TV · 1 ep
Battlestar Galactica
TV · as Thane · 2 eps
The Spell
Movie · as Glenn
The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer
Movie · as Gen. George Armstrong Custer
Law and Order
Movie · as Insp. Ed Shea
The Bionic Woman
TV · 2 eps
Someone I Touched
Movie · as Sam Hyatt
The Family Nobody Wanted
Movie · as Carl Doss
Strange New World
Movie · as Surgeon
Man on the Outside
Movie · as Gerald Griffin
Wonder Woman
TV · as Wotan · 1 ep
Manhunter
Movie · as Walt Hovis
The Sex Symbol
Movie · as Calvin Bernard
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Movie · as McShane
Harry O
TV · 1 ep
Police Woman
TV · 1 ep
The New Land
TV · 1 ep
Little House on the Prairie
TV · as Reverend Jacob Danforth · 1 ep
Incident on a Dark Street
Movie · as Joe Dubbs
Legend in Granite
Movie · as Mas McGee
Police Story
TV · 1 ep
Barnaby Jones
TV · as Randall Stone · 1 ep
The Groundstar Conspiracy
Movie · as Senator Stanton
The Rookies
TV · 2 eps
Maude
TV · as Sen. Bob Myers · 1 ep
The Streets of San Francisco
TV · as Dr. Jonas Rabb · 2 eps
Kung Fu
TV · as Damion · 1 ep
The Andromeda Strain
Movie · as Dr. Mark Hall
Wild Rovers
Movie · as Joe Billings
Paper Man
Movie · as Art Fletcher
Columbo
TV · as Paul Rifkin · 1 ep
Cannon
TV · 2 eps
McMillan & Wife
TV · as W.T. Knox · 1 ep
Crescendo
Movie · as Georges Ryman / Jacques Ryman
McCloud
TV · 1 ep
San Francisco International Airport
TV · as Professor Theodore Tragis · 1 ep
Moon Zero Two
Movie · as Capt. William H. Kemp
Hawaii Five-O
TV · as Mariss, Stoner, Bernie Brown, Travis Marshall, Dr. Kenneth Ames · 1 ep
Medical Center
TV · as Dave Toland · 1 ep
The Stalking Moon
Movie · as Cavalry Officer (uncredited)
Rachel, Rachel
Movie · as Nick Kazlik
Lancer
TV · 1 ep
Mannix
TV · as Donald Jordan · 1 ep
Ironside
TV · as Marvin Bosner · 1 ep
An Enemy of the People
Movie
The Three Sisters
Movie · as Baron Tuzenbach
The F.B.I.
TV · as Sheriff Bill Temple, George Breen, Carl Slovich · 1 ep
Route 66
TV · 1 ep
Bonanza
TV · as Vance · 1 ep
The Strange One
Movie · as Roger Gatt
Have Gun, Will Travel
TV · 1 ep
The Sharkfighters
Movie · as Ens. Harold Duncan
Gunsmoke
TV · as Bede Stalcup · 1 ep
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV · as General George A. Custer · 1 ep
Robert Montgomery Presents
TV · as Capt. Dicer · 1 ep