Biography
James Olson (October 8, 1930 β 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.
Filmography
all 69
Movies 36
TV Shows 33
Rachel River (1988)
Jake and the Fatman (1987)
One Police Plaza (1986)
Commando (1985)
The Parade (1984)
Matt Houston (1982)
Amityville II: The Possession (1982)
Ragtime (1981)
The Silent Lovers (1980)
Cave-In! (1980)
Visions of Christmas Past (1979)
Battlestar Galactica (1978)
No Prince for My Cinderella (1978)
The Runaways (1978)
The Mafu Cage (1978)
Project U.F.O. (1978)
The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer (1977)
The Spell (1977)
Law and Order (1976)
The Bionic Woman (1976)
Wonder Woman (1975)
Strange New World (1975)
Man on the Outside (1975)
Someone I Touched (1975)
The Family Nobody Wanted (1975)
The Sex Symbol (1974)
The New Land (1974)
Police Woman (1974)
Harry O (1974)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1974)
Manhunter (1974)
Legend in Granite (1973)
Police Story (1973)
Barnaby Jones (1973)
Incident on a Dark Street (1973)
Kung Fu (1972)
Jigsaw (1972)
The Streets of San Francisco (1972)
Maude (1972)
The Rookies (1972)
The Groundstar Conspiracy (1972)
Paper Man (1971)
McMillan and Wife (1971)
Columbo (1971)
Cannon (1971)
Wild Rovers (1971)
The Andromeda Strain (1971)
Crescendo (1970)
McCloud (1970)
Moon Zero Two (1969)
The Stalking Moon (1968)
Lancer (1968)
Hawaii Five-O (1968)
Rachel, Rachel (1968)
Mannix (1967)
Ironside (1967)
An Enemy of the People (1966)
The Three Sisters (1966)
The F.B.I. (1965)
Route 66 (1960)
Bonanza (1959)
Have Gun, Will Travel (1957)
The Strange One (1957)
The Sharkfighters (1956)
Gunsmoke (1955)
Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951)
Robert Montgomery Presents (1950)
North Beach and Rawhide
Strange New World
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1930-10-08
Deathday2022-04-17 (91 years old)
Birth PlaceEvanston, United States of America
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
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