James Olson
Acting
Born: October 8, 1930 · Evanston, Illinois, USA
Died: April 17, 2022 (aged 91)
Highest Rated
Biography
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
Commando
1985
Little House on the Prairie
1974
Columbo
1971
The Andromeda Strain
1971
Wonder Woman
1975
Bonanza
1959
Murder, She Wrote
1984
Amityville II: The Possession
1982
Battlestar Galactica
1978
The Bionic Woman
1976
Kung Fu
1972
Ragtime
1981
Photos (2)
Movies (35)
Commando
Major General Franklin Kirby
The Andromeda Strain
Dr. Mark Hall
Amityville II: The Possession
Father Adamsky
The Strange One
Roger Gatt
The Mafu Cage
David
The Stalking Moon
Cavalry Officer (uncredited)
Ragtime
Father
Rachel, Rachel
Nick Kazlik
Wild Rovers
Joe Billings
Manhunter
Walt Hovis
The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer
Gen. George Armstrong Custer
Strange New World
Surgeon
Someone I Touched
Sam Hyatt
The Groundstar Conspiracy
Senator Stanton
The Silent Lovers
Victor Seastrom
Moon Zero Two
Capt. William H. Kemp
Law and Order
Insp. Ed Shea
North Beach and Rawhide
Bill Cassidy
The Parade
Andy Janacek
The Sex Symbol
Calvin Bernard
One Police Plaza
Whitney Zangline
Crescendo
Georges Ryman / Jacques Ryman
An Enemy of the People
1966
Incident on a Dark Street
Joe Dubbs
Paper Man
Art Fletcher
The Family Nobody Wanted
Carl Doss
The Spell
Glenn
Cave-In!
Tom Arlen
The Three Sisters
Baron Tuzenbach
Rachel River
Jack Canon
The Sharkfighters
Ens. Harold Duncan
Visions of Christmas Past
1979
Man on the Outside
Gerald Griffin
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
McShane
No Prince for My Cinderella
Burt Williams
TV Shows (45)
Columbo
Paul Rifkin · 1 eps
Ironside
1 eps
Ironside
Marvin Bosner · 1 eps
Murder, She Wrote
Clarence La Rue · 1 eps
Hawaii Five-O
Mariss · 1 eps
Hawaii Five-O
Stoner · 1 eps
Hawaii Five-O
Bernie Brown · 1 eps
Hawaii Five-O
Travis Marshall · 1 eps
Hawaii Five-O
Dr. Kenneth Ames · 1 eps
Bonanza
Vance · 1 eps
American Playhouse
Jack Canon · 1 eps
Little House on the Prairie
Reverend Jacob Danforth · 1 eps
Mannix
1 eps
Mannix
Donald Jordan · 1 eps
Robert Montgomery Presents
Capt. Dicer · 1 eps
Have Gun, Will Travel
1 eps
Jake and the Fatman
1 eps
Cannon
2 eps
The Streets of San Francisco
2 eps
The Streets of San Francisco
Dr. Jonas Rabb · 1 eps
Barnaby Jones
Randall Stone · 1 eps
Route 66
1 eps
The F.B.I.
Sheriff Bill Temple · 1 eps
The F.B.I.
George Breen · 1 eps
The F.B.I.
Carl Slovich · 1 eps
Police Woman
1 eps
Gunsmoke
Bede Stalcup · 1 eps
The Bionic Woman
2 eps
Medical Center
Dave Toland · 1 eps
Matt Houston
1 eps
Battlestar Galactica
Thane · 2 eps
McCloud
1 eps
Police Story
1 eps
The Rookies
2 eps
McMillan & Wife
W.T. Knox · 1 eps
Harry O
1 eps
Wonder Woman
Wotan · 1 eps
Lancer
1 eps
Maude
Sen. Bob Myers · 1 eps
The Family Man
1 eps
Project U.F.O.
1 eps
The Runaways
1 eps
San Francisco International Airport
Professor Theodore Tragis · 1 eps
Hallmark Hall of Fame
General George A. Custer · 1 eps
Kung Fu
Damion · 1 eps