Olan Soule
Born: 1909-02-28 in La Harpe, Illinois, USA
Died: 1994-02-01
Known For: Acting
Biography
Olan Evart Soule (February 28, 1909 – February 1, 1994) was an American actor, who had professional credits in nearly 7,000 radio shows and commercials, appearances in 200 television series and television films, and in over 60 films. Soule's voice work on television included his 15-year role (1968–1983) as Batman on several animated series that were either devoted to or involved the fictional "Dark Knight" superhero. Soule married Norma Elizabeth Miller on September 29, 1929. They had two children and were married for 63 years, until Norma's death on July 1, 1992. His daughter Joann, was also an actress, under the name of Sydney Soule. Soule was a 32-degree Mason as well as a member of the Los Angeles Show Business Shrine Club (Al Malikah). On February 1, 1994, Soule died at age 84 of lung cancer in Corona, California, at the home of his daughter, Joann, and son-in-law, Dr. David Henriksen. His burial took place at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Hollywood Hills in Los Angeles. CLR From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Filmography
2002
- Scooby-Doo Meets Batman as Batman (voice) (archive footage)
2000
- State and Main as Spud
1997
- The Spanish Prisoner as Fingerprint Technician
1991
- Homicide as Crime Scene Technician
1987
- House of Games as Poker Player
1984
- Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show
- The Jerk, Too as Mr. Baxter
1983
1981
1978
- Fantasy Island as Proprietor
- Battlestar Galactica as Carmichael
- Challenge of the Super Friends
- The Small One as Father (voice)
- Project U.F.O.
1977
- The Love Boat as Harvey Grove
- The All-New Super Friends Hour
1976
- St. Ives as Station Man
1975
- The Apple Dumpling Gang as Rube Cluck
- The Legend of Lizzie Borden as Eli Bence
1974
- Little House on the Prairie
- Harry O
- The Towering Inferno as Johnson
- Willie Dynamite as Conventioneer arrested in Vice Raid (uncredited)
1973
- Super Friends as Batman (voice)
- The Six Million Dollar Man as Saltillo
1972
- Emergency!
- The New Scooby-Doo Movies as Batman (voice)
- Banacek as Desk Clerk (uncredited)
- Scooby-Doo Meets The Addams Family as Additional Voices (voice)
- Salty, the Hijacked Harbor Seal as Narrator
1971
- Cannon
- Nichols as Mr. Goudge
- The D.A.: Conspiracy to Kill as Dr. Samuels
1970
- Arnie
- House on Greenapple Road as Coroner
- The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County as Train Conductor (uncredited)
1969
- Dragnet as Wayne, Forensics Officer
- The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes as TV Reporter (uncredited)
- Inky, the Crow as Narrator
1968
- Adam-12 as Vernon Barber
- Land of the Giants as Cameraman
- Mayberry R.F.D. as Employer #2
- The Adventures of Batman as Batman (voice)
- The Night Before Christmas as Dr. Clement C. Moore (voice)
- And Of Course You as Narrator
- The Destructors as Mace (as Olan Soulé)
1967
- Dragnet as Ray Murray
1966
- Batman as Newscaster
- The Monkees
- That Girl
- Family Affair
- The Bubble as Watch Repairman
- The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. as Dr. Apella
1965
- The Big Valley as Telegraph Clerk
- The F.B.I. as Gary Deuel
- The Cincinnati Kid as Hotel Desk Clerk (uncredited)
- John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! as Second Editor (uncredited)
1964
- Bewitched
- Daniel Boone as Silversmith
- The Addams Family as Harwood Widdy
- Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
- Looking for Love as Photographer (uncredited)
1963
- The Fugitive as Chet Carter
- Petticoat Junction as Stanley Benson
- My Favorite Martian
- It Happened at the World's Fair as Mr. Johnson (uncredited)
- Sunday in New York as Man Getting on Bus Behind Eileen (uncredited)
- Days of Wine and Roses as Elevator Operator (uncredited)
1962
- The Beverly Hillbillies
- The Alfred Hitchcock Hour as Bill
- McHale's Navy
- 13 West Street as Staff Member (uncredited)
- The Hurrying Kind as Fred Welling
1961
- Mister Ed
- Bachelor in Paradise as Waiter (uncredited)
1960
- The Andy Griffith Show as John Masters
- My Three Sons
- Checkmate
- Pete and Gladys
- Peter Loves Mary
- Hell Bent for Leather as Basto - the Bartender (uncredited)
- Bells Are Ringing as Nervous Man (uncredited)
- Angel
- Toby Tyler or Ten Weeks with a Circus as Circus Spectator Obstructed by Toby
1959
- The Twilight Zone as IRS Man
- Rawhide
- The Rebel as Liam O'Shea
- One Step Beyond as Stowaway
- The Detectives
- North by Northwest as Assistant Auctioneer (uncredited)
- Johnny Ringo as Sam
1958
- The Rifleman
- Wanted: Dead or Alive as Bartender
- Bat Masterson as Bartender
- 77 Sunset Strip
- Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
- Behind Closed Doors as Hotchkiss
- The Notorious Mr. Monks as Court Clerk (uncredited)
1957
- Perry Mason as Court Clerk
- Have Gun, Will Travel
- Richard Diamond, Private Detective as Mr. Danzig
- The Real McCoys
- M Squad as Tailor
1956
- Ransom! as Bank Clerk
- Francis in the Haunted House as Dr. Bentley
- While the City Sleeps as Crime Scene Investigator (uncredited)
- Unidentified Flying Objects: The True Story of Flying Saucers as Narrator (voice)
1955
- Gunsmoke as Barber
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Chemist
- Queen Bee as Dr. Pearson
- The Millionaire as Teller
- Science Fiction Theatre
- Cult of the Cobra as Major Martin Fielding
1954
- Dragnet as Ray Pinker
- December Bride
- Human Desire as Lewis
- Phffft as Mr. Duncan (uncredited)
- Francis Joins the WACS as Captain Creavy
- Captain Midnight
- The Great Diamond Robbery as Mr. Heinsdorfer, Gibbons' Floor Manager (uncredited)
1953
- City Detective
- Letter to Loretta as Stanley Gibbs
- Trouble Along the Way as Cardinal's Secretary
- Never Wave at a WAC as Lt. Constable (uncredited)
- General Electric Theater
1952
- Don't Bother to Knock as Bespectacled Desk Clerk (uncredited)
- Monkey Business as Pickwick Arms Clerk (uncredited)
- The Atomic City as Mortie Fenton
- Clash by Night as Desk Clerk (uncredited)
1951
- I Love Lucy as Dr. Gettleman
- Dragnet
- Hollywood Story as Radio Commentator (uncredited)
- The Day the Earth Stood Still as Mr. Krull, boarder
- You Never Can Tell as Dog House Salesman (uncredited)
- Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1950
- Branded
- Peggy as Simmons
- Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town as Salon Technician (uncredited)
1949
- Beyond the Forest
- It's a Great Feeling as Flack (uncredited)
1948
- Studio One as Doctor (uncredited)