James Olson
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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
Commando (1985)
as Major General Franklin Kirby
Amityville II: The Possession (1982)
as Father Adamsky
The Andromeda Strain (1971)
as Dr. Mark Hall
Ragtime (1981)
as Father
Manhunter (1974)
as Walt Hovis
The Mafu Cage (1978)
as David
The Stalking Moon (1968)
as Cavalry Officer (uncredited)
Rachel, Rachel (1968)
as Nick Kazlik
Wild Rovers (1971)
as Joe Billings
Someone I Touched (1975)
as Sam Hyatt
Moon Zero Two (1969)
as Capt. William H. Kemp
The Spell (1977)
as Glenn
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1974)
as McShane
Incident on a Dark Street (1973)
as Joe Dubbs
Strange New World (1975)
as Surgeon
Paper Man (1971)
as Art Fletcher
The Groundstar Conspiracy (1972)
as Senator Stanton
North Beach and Rawhide (1985)
as Bill Cassidy
An Enemy of the People (1966)
Actor
The Strange One (1957)
as Roger Gatt
Man on the Outside (1975)
as Gerald Griffin
The Sharkfighters (1956)
as Ens. Harold Duncan
Crescendo (1970)
as Georges Ryman / Jacques Ryman
Visions of Christmas Past (1979)
Actor
No Prince for My Cinderella (1978)
as Burt Williams
Rachel River (1989)
as Jack Canon
The Sex Symbol (1974)
as Calvin Bernard
Law and Order (1976)
as Insp. Ed Shea
One Police Plaza (1986)
as Whitney Zangline
The Parade (1984)
as Andy Janacek
Legend in Granite (1973)
as Mas McGee
The Three Sisters (1966)
as Baron Tuzenbach
The Silent Lovers (1980)
as Victor Seastrom
The Family Nobody Wanted (1975)
as Carl Doss
Cave-In! (1983)
as Tom Arlen
The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer (1977)
as Gen. George Armstrong Custer