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)
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
- Project U.F.O.
- The Small One as Father (voice)
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 as Ticket Agent
- 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!
- Banacek as Desk Clerk (uncredited)
- The New Scooby-Doo Movies as Batman (voice)
- Scooby-Doo! Meets the Harlem Globetrotters as Additional Voices
- 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
- The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes as TV Reporter (uncredited)
- Dragnet as Wayne, Forensics Officer
- 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 Destructors as Mace (as Olan Soulé)
- The Night Before Christmas as Dr. Clement C. Moore (voice)
- And Of Course You as Narrator
1967
- Dragnet as Ray Murray
1966
- Batman as Newscaster
- Family Affair
- That Girl
- The Monkees as Waiter
- The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. as Dr. Apella
- The Bubble as Watch Repairman
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 as Doctor Passmore
- Daniel Boone as Silversmith
- Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
- The Addams Family as Harwood Widdy
- Looking for Love as Photographer (uncredited)
1963
- The Fugitive as Chet Carter
- Petticoat Junction as Stanley Benson
- My Favorite Martian
- Days of Wine and Roses as Elevator Operator (uncredited)
- Sunday in New York as Man Getting on Bus Behind Eileen (uncredited)
- It Happened at the World's Fair as Mr. Johnson (uncredited)
1962
- The Alfred Hitchcock Hour as Bill
- The Beverly Hillbillies
- 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
- Stagecoach West as Cal
- Angel
- Pete and Gladys
- Peter Loves Mary
- Bells Are Ringing as Nervous Man (uncredited)
- Hell Bent for Leather as Basto - the Bartender (uncredited)
- Toby Tyler or Ten Weeks with a Circus as Circus Spectator Obstructed by Toby
1959
- The Twilight Zone as IRS Man
- The Rebel as Liam O'Shea
- Rawhide
- Johnny Ringo as Sam
- One Step Beyond as Stowaway
- The Detectives
- North by Northwest as Assistant Auctioneer (uncredited)
1958
- The Rifleman
- Bat Masterson as Bartender
- Wanted: Dead or Alive 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
- M Squad as Tailor
- The Real McCoys
1956
- While the City Sleeps as Crime Scene Investigator (uncredited)
- Ransom! as Bank Clerk
- Francis in the Haunted House as Dr. Bentley
- Unidentified Flying Objects: The True Story of Flying Saucers as Narrator (voice)
1955
- Gunsmoke as Barber
- The Millionaire as Teller
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Chemist
- Cult of the Cobra as Major Martin Fielding
- Science Fiction Theatre
- Queen Bee as Dr. Pearson
1954
- December Bride
- Captain Midnight
- Human Desire as Lewis
- Phffft as Mr. Duncan (uncredited)
- Francis Joins the WACS as Captain Creavy
- Dragnet as Ray Pinker
- The Great Diamond Robbery as Mr. Heinsdorfer, Gibbons' Floor Manager (uncredited)
1953
- City Detective
- Letter to Loretta as Stanley Gibbs
- General Electric Theater
- Trouble Along the Way as Cardinal's Secretary
- Never Wave at a WAC as Lt. Constable (uncredited)
1952
- Don't Bother to Knock as Bespectacled Desk Clerk (uncredited)
- Monkey Business as Pickwick Arms Clerk (uncredited)
- Clash by Night as Desk Clerk (uncredited)
- The Atomic City as Mortie Fenton
1951
- Dragnet
- I Love Lucy as Dr. Gettleman
- The Day the Earth Stood Still as Mr. Krull
- Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
- Hollywood Story as Radio Commentator (uncredited)
- You Never Can Tell as Dog House Salesman (uncredited)
1950
- Branded
- Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town as Salon Technician (uncredited)
- Peggy as Simmons
1949
- It's a Great Feeling as Flack (uncredited)
- The Lady Takes a Sailor as Tyson's Assistant (uncredited)
- Beyond the Forest
1948
- Studio One as Doctor (uncredited)