Acting
James Olson
EN cinema · 36 credits
Born
8 October 1930
Died
17 April 2022 (aged 91)
Birthplace
Evanston, Illinois, USA
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
Filmography
Rachel River
as Jack Canon
One Police Plaza
as Whitney Zangline
Commando
as Major General Franklin Kirby
North Beach and Rawhide
as Bill Cassidy
The Parade
as Andy Janacek
Cave-In!
as Tom Arlen
Amityville II: The Possession
as Father Adamsky
Ragtime
as Father
The Silent Lovers
as Victor Seastrom
No Prince for My Cinderella
as Burt Williams
The Mafu Cage
as David
The Spell
as Glenn
The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer
as Gen. George Armstrong Custer
Law and Order
as Insp. Ed Shea
Someone I Touched
as Sam Hyatt
The Family Nobody Wanted
as Carl Doss
Strange New World
as Surgeon
Man on the Outside
as Gerald Griffin
Manhunter
as Walt Hovis
The Sex Symbol
as Calvin Bernard
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
as McShane
Incident on a Dark Street
as Joe Dubbs
The Groundstar Conspiracy
as Senator Stanton
The Andromeda Strain
as Dr. Mark Hall
Wild Rovers
as Joe Billings
Paper Man
as Art Fletcher
Crescendo
as Georges Ryman / Jacques Ryman
Moon Zero Two
as Capt. William H. Kemp
The Stalking Moon
as Cavalry Officer (uncredited)
Rachel, Rachel
as Nick Kazlik
The Three Sisters
as Baron Tuzenbach
The Strange One
as Roger Gatt
The Sharkfighters
as Ens. Harold Duncan