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James Olson

James Olson

Known for
Acting
Born
Oct 8, 1930
Died
Apr 17, 2022 (aged 91)
Place of birth
Evanston, Illinois, USA
Credits
73

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.

Known for

MovieRated 6.8

Commando

1985Movie

Major General Franklin Kirby

TVRated 8.0

Little House on the Prairie

1974TV

Reverend Jacob Danforth

TVRated 8.1

Columbo

1971TV

Paul Rifkin

MovieRated 7.0

The Andromeda Strain

1971Movie

Dr. Mark Hall

TVRated 7.0

Wonder Woman

1975TV

Wotan

TVRated 7.5

Bonanza

1959TV

Vance

Filmography

TVRated 7.5

The Family Man

1990TV

MovieRated 7.3

Rachel River

1989Movie

Jack Canon

TVRated 6.2

Jake and the Fatman

1987TV

MovieRated 9.0

One Police Plaza

1986Movie

Whitney Zangline

MovieRated 6.0

North Beach and Rawhide

1985Movie

Bill Cassidy

MovieRated 6.8

Commando

1985Movie

Major General Franklin Kirby

TVRated 7.5

Murder, She Wrote

1984TV

Clarence La Rue

MovieRated 4.5

The Parade

1984Movie

Andy Janacek

MovieRated 4.6

Cave-In!

1983Movie

Tom Arlen

TVRated 6.3

Matt Houston

1982TV

MovieRated 5.7

Amityville II: The Possession

1982Movie

Father Adamsky

TVRated 6.6

American Playhouse

1982TV

Jack Canon

MovieRated 7.0

Ragtime

1981Movie

Father

MovieRated 4.7

The Silent Lovers

1980Movie

Victor Seastrom

Movie

Visions of Christmas Past

1979Movie

TVRated 7.1

Battlestar Galactica

1978TV

Thane

Movie

No Prince for My Cinderella

1978Movie

Burt Williams

TVRated 6.5

The Runaways

1978TV

MovieRated 5.9

The Mafu Cage

1978Movie

David

TVRated 7.0

Project U.F.O.

1978TV

MovieRated 2.0

The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer

1977Movie

Gen. George Armstrong Custer

MovieRated 5.0

The Spell

1977Movie

Glenn

MovieRated 8.0

Law and Order

1976Movie

Insp. Ed Shea

TVRated 7.0

The Bionic Woman

1976TV

TVRated 7.0

Wonder Woman

1975TV

Wotan

MovieRated 4.2

Strange New World

1975Movie

Surgeon

MovieRated 8.0

Man on the Outside

1975Movie

Gerald Griffin

MovieRated 5.1

Someone I Touched

1975Movie

Sam Hyatt

MovieRated 6.4

The Family Nobody Wanted

1975Movie

Carl Doss

MovieRated 4.0

The Sex Symbol

1974Movie

Calvin Bernard

TVRated 5.0

The New Land

1974TV

TVRated 6.4

Police Woman

1974TV

TVRated 5.2

Harry O

1974TV

TVRated 8.0

Little House on the Prairie

1974TV

Reverend Jacob Danforth

MovieRated 10.0

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

1974Movie

McShane

MovieRated 6.7

Manhunter

1974Movie

Walt Hovis

MovieRated 8.0

Legend in Granite

1973Movie

Mas McGee

TVRated 7.0

Police Story

1973TV

TVRated 7.0

Barnaby Jones

1973TV

Randall Stone

MovieRated 5.3

Incident on a Dark Street

1973Movie

Joe Dubbs

TVRated 7.7

Kung Fu

1972TV

Damion

TVRated 7.1

The Streets of San Francisco

1972TV

Dr. Jonas Rabb

TVRated 6.9

Maude

1972TV

Sen. Bob Myers

TVRated 6.9

The Rookies

1972TV

MovieRated 6.3

The Groundstar Conspiracy

1972Movie

Senator Stanton

MovieRated 6.1

Paper Man

1971Movie

Art Fletcher

TVRated 7.1

McMillan & Wife

1971TV

W.T. Knox

TVRated 8.1

Columbo

1971TV

Paul Rifkin

TVRated 6.7

Cannon

1971TV

MovieRated 6.1

Wild Rovers

1971Movie

Joe Billings

MovieRated 7.0

The Andromeda Strain

1971Movie

Dr. Mark Hall

TVRated 7.0

San Francisco International Airport

1970TV

Professor Theodore Tragis

MovieRated 5.2

Crescendo

1970Movie

Georges Ryman / Jacques Ryman

TVRated 7.2

McCloud

1970TV

MovieRated 4.9

Moon Zero Two

1969Movie

Capt. William H. Kemp

TVRated 6.4

Medical Center

1969TV

Dave Toland

TVRated 7.2

Hawaii Five-O

1969TV

Mariss, Stoner, Bernie Brown, Travis Marshall, Dr. Kenneth Ames

MovieRated 5.9

The Stalking Moon

1968Movie

Cavalry Officer (uncredited)

TVRated 5.6

Lancer

1968TV

MovieRated 6.6

Rachel, Rachel

1968Movie

Nick Kazlik

TVRated 6.9

Mannix

1967TV

Donald Jordan

TVRated 6.8

Ironside

1967TV

Marvin Bosner

MovieRated 10.0

An Enemy of the People

1966Movie

MovieRated 7.5

The Three Sisters

1966Movie

Baron Tuzenbach

TVRated 5.6

The F.B.I.

1965TV

Sheriff Bill Temple, George Breen, Carl Slovich

TVRated 6.7

Route 66

1960TV

TVRated 7.5

Bonanza

1959TV

Vance

TVRated 7.3

Have Gun, Will Travel

1957TV

MovieRated 6.5

The Strange One

1957Movie

Roger Gatt

MovieRated 5.7

The Sharkfighters

1956Movie

Ens. Harold Duncan

TVRated 6.7

Gunsmoke

1955TV

Bede Stalcup

TVRated 8.8

Hallmark Hall of Fame

1951TV

General George A. Custer

TVRated 6.0

Robert Montgomery Presents

1950TV

Capt. Dicer

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