John Ericson

John Ericson (sometimes Erickson; born Joachim Alexander Ottokar Meibes; September 25, 1926 - May 3, 2020) was a German-American actor and film and television star. He trained at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York, played the lead role in Stalag 17 by Donald Bevan and Edmund Trzcinski on Broadway (1951). He went on to make a number of films for MGM in quick succession in the 1950s. His first appearance was in Teresa (1951), directed by Fred Zinnemann, which also launched the film careers of Pier Angeli and Rod Steiger. He then went on to appear in a series of films which included Rhapsody, The Student Prince, Green Fire (all in 1954), and Bad Day at Black Rock (1955). His career continued, mostly on television, for the next thirty years. He appeared in the lead role in "The Peter Bartley Story" of CBS's fantasy drama, The Millionaire. Child actor Johnny Washbrook appeared in the same episode in a flashback segment of Ericson as a boy. He appeared with Dorothy Malone in the January 1, 1956, episode entitled "Mutiny" of CBS's Appointment with Adventure. He guest-starred in 1958 in the NBC western series The Restless Gun, starring John Payne. He also guest-starred in the 1961 ABC crime drama, Target: The Corruptors! In 1965-1966, he co-starred with Anne Francis in the detective series Honey West. He occasionally appeared in such films as Pretty Boy Floyd (1960), 7 Faces of Dr. Lao (1964), and Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971). He was married twice and had two children from his first marriage to Milly Coury. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Ericson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For: Acting

Born: Düsseldorf, Germany, 1926-09-23

Died: 2020-05-03

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1951	Teresa	Philip Cass	58
2	1951	It's a Big Country	Naval Ensign (uncredited)	53
3	1954	Great Lady Has an Interview	Reporter (uncredited)	20
4	1954	Rhapsody	James Guest	67
5	1954	The Student Prince	Count Von Asterburg	64
6	1954	Green Fire	Donald Knowland	62
7	1955	Bad Day at Black Rock	Pete Wirth	73
8	1955	The Return of Jack Slade	Jack Slade	60
9	1956	The Cruel Tower	Tom Kittredge	51
10	1956	Heritage of Anger	Johnny Hanneman	0
11	1957	Forty Guns	Brockie Drummond	65
12	1957	Oregon Passage	Lt. Niles Ord	46
13	1958	Day of the Badman	Sheriff Barney Wiley	65
14	1960	Pretty Boy Floyd	Charles Arthur 'Pretty Boy' Floyd	63
15	1960	Under Ten Flags	Lieutenant Krüger	54
16	1963	I Am Semiramis	Kir	47
17	1964	7 Faces of Dr. Lao	Ed Cunningham / Transformed Pan	69
18	1965	Operation Atlantis	George Steele	0
19	1967	The Vengeance of Pancho Villa	Don Diego Alvarado / Diego Owens	48
20	1967	The Money Jungle	Blake Heller	50
21	1968	The Destructors	Dutch Holland	52
22	1968	The Bamboo Saucer	Fred Norwood	49
23	1969	Heads or Tails	William Huston / Will Hunter / 'Black Talisman'	48
24	1971	Bedknobs and Broomsticks	Col. Heller	70
25	1972	The Bounty Man	Billy Riddle	55
26	1974	Hog Wild	Morris Melborne	0
27	1974	Murder Impossible	Murray	0
28	1976	Hustler Squad		43
29	1976	Crash!	Dr. Gregg Martin	51
30	1978	The House of the Dead	Talmudge	46
31	1980	The Ghosts of Buxley Hall	George Ross	63
32	1984	Final Mission	The Colonel	45
33	1990	Primary Target		0
34	2002	The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller	Brockie Drummond (archive footage)	58

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1948	The Philco Television Playhouse		63
2	1950	Lux Video Theatre	Mike	63
3	1951	Schlitz Playhouse of Stars	Gunner's Mate Eddie Younger	73
4	1951	Schlitz Playhouse of Stars	Eddie Markham	73
5	1951	Schlitz Playhouse of Stars	Paul	73
6	1951	Schlitz Playhouse of Stars		73
7	1951	Out There		0
8	1952	Cavalcade of America		35
9	1952	Cavalcade of America	Leon Patterson	35
10	1952	Cavalcade of America	Joe Loring	35
11	1953	General Electric Theater	Red	63
12	1953	General Electric Theater	Wonder Boy Nick	63
13	1953	Letter to Loretta	Will Hadley	65
14	1953	Letter to Loretta	Roy Hendricks	65
15	1953	Letter to Loretta	Carl Stanton	65
16	1953	The United States Steel Hour		62
17	1954	Climax!	William Herrick	33
18	1954	Climax!	Lindy Jackson	33
19	1954	Climax!	Cameron Lacey	33
20	1954	The Wonderful World of Disney	Morris Melborne	78
21	1955	The Millionaire	Sgt. Peter Barkley	50
22	1955	Appointment with Adventure		65
23	1955	Star Stage		0
24	1956	Playhouse 90		76
25	1956	Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre	Will Ruxton	55
26	1956	Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre	Lane Baker	55
27	1956	Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre	Linc Mallory	55
28	1956	Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre	Andy McCall	55
29	1957	Wagon Train		63
30	1957	The Restless Gun		37
31	1958	Shirley Temple's Storybook	Brom Bones	62
32	1958	Shirley Temple's Storybook	Hiawatha	62
33	1959	The David Niven Show	Twist Thompson	0
34	1959	Bonanza	Vince Dagen	75
35	1959	Adventures in Paradise	Jeff Hazen	57
36	1960	The Chevy Mystery Show	Ray	63
37	1962	The Virginian	Jack Bonham	65
38	1963	The Fugitive	Lars	72
39	1965	Honey West	Sam Bolt	70
40	1965	The F.B.I.	Sgt. Paul Devlin	55
41	1967	The Invaders	Hardy Smith	68
42	1967	Ironside	Fred	68
43	1972	The Streets of San Francisco	Shelby	69
44	1973	Hawkins	Frank Pearson	72
45	1975	S.W.A.T.		70
46	1975	Barbary Coast	Mike McCord	50
47	1975	One Day at a Time	Clint Wilkens	67
48	1977	CHiPs	John Ericson (uncredited)	68
49	1977	CHiPs	Captain Burke	68
50	1981	Nero Wolfe	Arthur Poor	74
51	1982	Knight Rider	Phillip Royce	76
52	1983	The A-Team	Calvin Cutter	75
53	1984	Airwolf	Dr. Karl Krüger	76
54	1984	Murder, She Wrote	Henderson Wheatley	75

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