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person_profile-James Olson

James Olson Died at age: 91

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

James Olson

Date of Birth:

Oct 08, 1930

Country of birth:

U.S.

Died:

Apr 17, 2022

Biography of

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.

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James Olson

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Filmography of

James Olson

Found 34 Movies in total

Rachel River

Jack Canon ( Actor )

... 1988

One Police Plaza

Whitney Zangline ( Actor )

... 1986

North Beach and Rawhide

Bill Cassidy ( Actor )

... 1985

Commando

Major General Franklin Kirby ( Actor )

... 1985

The Parade

Andy Janacek ( Actor )

... 1984

Cave-In!

Tom Arlen ( Actor )

... 1983

Amityville II: The Possession

Father Adamsky ( Actor )

... 1982

Ragtime

Father ( Actor )

... 1981

The Silent Lovers

Victor Seastrom ( Actor )

... 1980

The Mafu Cage

David ( Actor )

... 1978

The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer

Gen. George Armstrong Custer ( Actor )

... 1977

The Spell

Glen ( Actor )

... 1977

Law and Order

Insp. Ed Shea ( Actor )

... 1976

Strange New World

Surgeon ( Actor )

... 1975

Man on the Outside

Gerald Griffin ( Actor )

... 1975

Someone I Touched

Sam Hyatt ( Actor )

... 1975

The Family Nobody Wanted

Carl Doss ( Actor )

... 1975

The Sex Symbol

Calvin Bernard ( Actor )

... 1974

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

McShane ( Actor )

... 1974

Manhunter

Walt Hovis ( Actor )

... 1974

Incident on a Dark Street

Joe Dubbs ( Actor )

... 1973

The Groundstar Conspiracy

Senator Stanton ( Actor )

... 1972

Paper Man

Art Fletcher ( Actor )

... 1971

Wild Rovers

Joe Billings ( Actor )

... 1971

The Andromeda Strain

Dr. Mark Hall ( Actor )

... 1971

Crescendo

Georges Ryman / Jacques Ryman ( Actor )

... 1970

Moon Zero Two

Capt. William H. Kemp ( Actor )

... 1969

The Stalking Moon

Cavalry Officer (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1968

Rachel, Rachel

Nick Kazlik ( Actor )

... 1968

The Three Sisters

Baron Tuzenbach ( Actor )

... 1966

The Strange One

Roger Gatt ( Actor )

... 1957

The Sharkfighters

Ens. Harold Duncan ( Actor )

... 1956