Name
James Olson
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1930-10-08
Deathday
2022-04-17 (92 years old)
Place of Birth
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.
Known For
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- 1971 The Andromeda Strain as Dr. Mark Hall
- 1968 The Stalking Moon as Cavalry Officer (uncredited)
- 1981 Ragtime as Father
- 1969 Moon Zero Two as Capt. William H. Kemp
- 1968 Rachel, Rachel as Nick Kazlik
- 1973 Incident on a Dark Street as Joe Dubbs
- 1970 Crescendo as Georges Ryman / Jacques Ryman
- 1972 The Groundstar Conspiracy as Senator Stanton
- 1956 The Sharkfighters as Ens. Harold Duncan
- 1978 No Prince for My Cinderella as Burt Williams
- 1974 Manhunter as Walt Hovis
- 1983 Cave-In! as Tom Arlen
- 1974 The Sex Symbol as Calvin Bernard
- 1975 Someone I Touched as Sam Hyatt
- 1975 The Family Nobody Wanted as Carl Doss
- 1979 Visions of Christmas Past
- 1975 Strange New World as Surgeon
- 1978 The Mafu Cage as David
- 1975 Man on the Outside as Gerald Griffin
- 1977 The Spell as Glenn
- 1980 The Silent Lovers as Victor Seastrom
- 1977 The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer as Gen. George Armstrong Custer
- 1989 Rachel River as Jack Canon
- 1985 Commando as Major General Franklin Kirby
- 1985 North Beach and Rawhide as Bill Cassidy
- 1973 Legend in Granite as Mas McGee
- 1966 An Enemy of the People
- 1971 Wild Rovers as Joe Billings
- 1984 The Parade as Andy Janacek
- 1966 The Three Sisters as Baron Tuzenbach
- 1971 Paper Man as Art Fletcher
- 1986 One Police Plaza as Whitney Zangline
- 1982 Amityville II: The Possession as Father Adamsky
- 1976 Law and Order as Insp. Ed Shea
- 1974 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn as McShane
- 1957 The Strange One as Roger Gatt
- 1971 Columbo ( 1 episode ) as Paul Rifkin
- 1972 The Rookies ( 2 episodes )
- 1965 The F.B.I. ( 1 episode ) as Sheriff Bill Temple
- 1976 The Bionic Woman ( 2 episodes )
- 1969 Hawaii Five-O ( 1 episode ) as Mariss
- 1960 Route 66 ( 1 episode )
- 1972 Maude ( 1 episode ) as Sen. Bob Myers
- 1972 The Streets of San Francisco ( 2 episodes )
- 1967 Mannix ( 1 episode )
- 1955 Gunsmoke ( 1 episode ) as Bede Stalcup
- 1975 Wonder Woman ( 1 episode ) as Wotan
- 1987 Jake and the Fatman ( 1 episode )
- 1971 Cannon ( 2 episodes )
- 1951 Hallmark Hall of Fame ( 1 episode ) as General George A. Custer
- 1967 Ironside ( 1 episode )
- 1974 Harry O ( 1 episode )
- 1957 Have Gun, Will Travel ( 1 episode )
- 1974 Police Woman ( 1 episode )
- 1973 Police Story ( 1 episode )
- 1978 Project U.F.O. ( 1 episode )
- 1968 Lancer ( 1 episode )
- 1970 McCloud ( 1 episode )
- 1982 Matt Houston ( 1 episode )
- 1950 Robert Montgomery Presents ( 1 episode ) as Capt. Dicer
- 1974 The New Land ( 1 episode )
- 1965 The F.B.I. ( 1 episode ) as George Breen
- 1969 Hawaii Five-O ( 1 episode ) as Stoner
- 1969 Hawaii Five-O ( 1 episode ) as Bernie Brown
- 1969 Hawaii Five-O ( 1 episode ) as Travis Marshall
- 1969 Hawaii Five-O ( 1 episode ) as Dr. Kenneth Ames
- 1967 Mannix ( 1 episode ) as Donald Jordan
- 1978 The Runaways ( 1 episode )
- 1967 Ironside ( 1 episode ) as Marvin Bosner
- 1971 McMillan & Wife ( 1 episode ) as W.T. Knox
- 1959 Bonanza ( 1 episode ) as Vance
- 1972 The Streets of San Francisco ( 1 episode ) as Dr. Jonas Rabb
- 1990 The Family Man ( 1 episode )
- 1973 Barnaby Jones ( 1 episode ) as Randall Stone
- 1984 Murder, She Wrote ( 1 episode ) as Clarence La Rue
- 1978 Battlestar Galactica ( 2 episodes ) as Thane
- 1965 The F.B.I. ( 1 episode ) as Carl Slovich
- 1969 Medical Center ( 1 episode ) as Dave Toland
- 1972 Kung Fu ( 1 episode ) as Damion
- 1970 San Francisco International Airport ( 1 episode ) as Professor Theodore Tragis
- 1974 Little House on the Prairie ( 1 episode ) as Reverend Jacob Danforth
- 1982 American Playhouse ( 1 episode ) as Jack Canon
