James Olson
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
Credits
- 1990 · The Family Man as
- 1988 · Rachel River as Jack Canon
- 1987 · Jake and the Fatman as
- 1986 · One Police Plaza as Whitney Zangline
- 1985 · North Beach and Rawhide as Bill Cassidy
- 1985 · Commando as Major General Franklin Kirby
- 1984 · Murder, She Wrote as Clarence La Rue
- 1984 · The Parade as Andy Janacek
- 1983 · Cave-In! as Tom Arlen
- 1982 · Matt Houston as
- 1982 · Amityville II: The Possession as Father Adamsky
- 1981 · Ragtime as Father
- 1980 · The Silent Lovers as Victor Seastrom
- 1979 · Visions of Christmas Past as
- 1978 · Battlestar Galactica as Thane
- 1978 · The Runaways as
- 1978 · No Prince for My Cinderella as Burt Williams
- 1978 · The Mafu Cage as David
- 1978 · Project U.F.O. as
- 1977 · The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer as Gen. George Armstrong Custer
- 1977 · The Spell as Glenn
- 1976 · Law and Order as Insp. Ed Shea
- 1976 · The Bionic Woman as
- 1975 · Wonder Woman as Wotan
- 1975 · Strange New World as Surgeon
- 1975 · Man on the Outside as Gerald Griffin
- 1975 · Someone I Touched as Sam Hyatt
- 1975 · The Family Nobody Wanted as Carl Doss
- 1974 · The Sex Symbol as Calvin Bernard
- 1974 · The New Land as
- 1974 · Police Woman as
- 1974 · Harry O as
- 1974 · A Tree Grows in Brooklyn as McShane
- 1974 · Manhunter as Walt Hovis
- 1973 · Legend in Granite as Mas McGee
- 1973 · Police Story as
- 1973 · Barnaby Jones as Randall Stone
- 1973 · Incident on a Dark Street as Joe Dubbs
- 1972 · Kung Fu as
- 1972 · The Streets of San Francisco as
- 1972 · The Streets of San Francisco as Dr. Jonas Rabb
- 1972 · Maude as
- 1972 · The Rookies as
- 1972 · The Groundstar Conspiracy as Senator Stanton
- 1971 · Paper Man as Art Fletcher
- 1971 · McMillan and Wife as W.T. Knox
- 1971 · Columbo as Paul Rifkin
- 1971 · Cannon as
- 1971 · Wild Rovers as Joe Billings
- 1971 · The Andromeda Strain as Dr. Mark Hall
- 1970 · Crescendo as Georges Ryman / Jacques Ryman
- 1970 · McCloud as
- 1969 · Moon Zero Two as Capt. William H. Kemp
- 1968 · The Stalking Moon as Cavalry Officer (uncredited)
- 1968 · Lancer as
- 1968 · Hawaii Five-O as Mariss
- 1968 · Hawaii Five-O as Stoner
- 1968 · Hawaii Five-O as Bernie Brown
- 1968 · Hawaii Five-O as Travis Marshall
- 1968 · Hawaii Five-O as Dr. Kenneth Ames
- 1968 · Rachel, Rachel as Nick Kazlik
- 1967 · Mannix as
- 1967 · Mannix as Donald Jordan
- 1967 · Ironside as
- 1967 · Ironside as Marvin Bosner
- 1966 · An Enemy of the People as
- 1966 · The Three Sisters as Baron Tuzenbach
- 1965 · The F.B.I. as Sheriff Bill Temple
- 1965 · The F.B.I. as George Breen
- 1965 · The F.B.I. as Carl Slovich
- 1960 · Route 66 as
- 1959 · Bonanza as Vance
- 1957 · Have Gun, Will Travel as
- 1957 · 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