James Olson
Born: 1930-10-08 in Evanston, Illinois, USA
Died: 2022-04-17
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
1990
1989
- Rachel River as Jack Canon
1987
1986
- One Police Plaza as Whitney Zangline
1985
- Commando as Major General Franklin Kirby
- North Beach and Rawhide as Bill Cassidy
1984
- Murder, She Wrote as Clarence La Rue
- The Parade as Andy Janacek
1983
- Cave-In! as Tom Arlen
1982
- Matt Houston
- Amityville II: The Possession as Father Adamsky
1981
- Ragtime as Father
1980
- The Silent Lovers as Victor Seastrom
1978
- Battlestar Galactica as Thane
- The Mafu Cage as David
- Project U.F.O.
- No Prince for My Cinderella as Burt Williams
- The Runaways
1977
- The Spell as Glenn
- The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer as Gen. George Armstrong Custer
1976
- The Bionic Woman
- Law and Order as Insp. Ed Shea
1975
- Wonder Woman as Wotan
- Strange New World as Surgeon
- The Family Nobody Wanted as Carl Doss
- Man on the Outside as Gerald Griffin
- Someone I Touched as Sam Hyatt
1974
- Police Woman
- Harry O
- Manhunter as Walt Hovis
- The Sex Symbol as Calvin Bernard
- The New Land
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn as McShane
1973
- Barnaby Jones as Randall Stone
- Police Story
- Legend in Granite as Mas McGee
- Incident on a Dark Street as Joe Dubbs
1972
- The Rookies
- The Streets of San Francisco
- Maude as Sen. Bob Myers
- The Groundstar Conspiracy as Senator Stanton
- Kung Fu as Damion
1971
- Columbo as Paul Rifkin
- Cannon
- McMillan & Wife as W.T. Knox
- Paper Man as Art Fletcher
- Wild Rovers as Joe Billings
- The Andromeda Strain as Dr. Mark Hall
1970
- McCloud
- Crescendo as Georges Ryman / Jacques Ryman
- San Francisco International Airport as Professor Theodore Tragis
1969
- Medical Center as Dave Toland
- Moon Zero Two as Capt. William H. Kemp
1968
- Hawaii Five-O as Mariss
- Rachel, Rachel as Nick Kazlik
- Lancer
- The Stalking Moon as Cavalry Officer (uncredited)
1966
- An Enemy of the People
- The Three Sisters as Baron Tuzenbach
1965
- The F.B.I. as Sheriff Bill Temple
1960
1959
- Bonanza as Vance
1957
- Have Gun, Will Travel
- The Strange One as Roger Gatt
1956
- The Sharkfighters as Ens. Harold Duncan
1955
- Gunsmoke as Bede Stalcup
1951
- Hallmark Hall of Fame as General George A. Custer
1950
- Robert Montgomery Presents as Capt. Dicer