James Olson
Acting
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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movieRachel River
1989
Jack Canon
movieOne Police Plaza
1986
Whitney Zangline
movieNorth Beach and Rawhide
1985
Bill Cassidy
movieCommando
1985
Major General Franklin Kirby / Professor Theodore Tragis
tvMurder, She Wrote
1984
Clarence La Rue
movieThe Parade
1984
Andy Janacek
movieCave-In!
1983
Tom Arlen
movieAmityville II: The Possession
1982
Father Adamsky
tvAmerican Playhouse
1982
Jack Canon
movieRagtime
1981
Father
movieThe Silent Lovers
1980
Victor Seastrom
movieNo Prince for My Cinderella
1978
Burt Williams
movieThe Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer
1977
Gen. George Armstrong Custer
movieThe Spell
1977
Glenn
movieLaw and Order
1976
Insp. Ed Shea
tvWonder Woman
1975
Wotan
movieStrange New World
1975
Surgeon
movieMan on the Outside
1975
Gerald Griffin
movieSomeone I Touched
1975
Sam Hyatt
movieThe Family Nobody Wanted
1975
Carl Doss
movieThe Sex Symbol
1974
Calvin Bernard
tvLittle House on the Prairie
1974
Reverend Jacob Danforth
movieManhunter
1974
Walt Hovis
tvBarnaby Jones
1973
Randall Stone
movieIncident on a Dark Street
1973
Joe Dubbs
tvKung Fu
1972
Damion
tvThe Streets of San Francisco
1972
Dr. Jonas Rabb
tvMaude
1972
Sen. Bob Myers
movieThe Groundstar Conspiracy
1972
Senator Stanton
moviePaper Man
1971
Art Fletcher
tvMcMillan & Wife
1971
W.T. Knox
tvColumbo
1971
Paul Rifkin
movieWild Rovers
1971
Joe Billings
movieThe Andromeda Strain
1971
Dr. Mark Hall
movieCrescendo
1970
Georges Ryman / Jacques Ryman
movieMoon Zero Two
1969
Capt. William H. Kemp
tvMedical Center
1969
Dave Toland
movieThe Stalking Moon
1968
Cavalry Officer (uncredited)
tvHawaii Five-O
1968
Mariss / Stoner / Bernie Brown / Travis Marshall / Dr. Kenneth Ames
movieRachel, Rachel
1968
Nick Kazlik
tvMannix
1967
Donald Jordan
tvIronside
1967
Marvin Bosner
movieThe Three Sisters
1966
Baron Tuzenbach
tvThe F.B.I.
1965
Sheriff Bill Temple / George Breen / Carl Slovich
tvBonanza
1959
Vance
movieThe Strange One
1957
Roger Gatt
movieThe Sharkfighters
1956
Ens. Harold Duncan
tvGunsmoke
1955
Bede Stalcup
tvHallmark Hall of Fame
1951
General George A. Custer
tvRobert Montgomery Presents
1950
Capt. Dicer