James Olson

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: Acting

Born: Evanston, Illinois, USA, 1930-10-08

Died: 2022-04-17

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1956	The Sharkfighters	Ens. Harold Duncan	53
2	1957	The Strange One	Roger Gatt	64
3	1966	The Three Sisters	Baron Tuzenbach	0
4	1966	An Enemy of the People		0
5	1968	Rachel, Rachel	Nick Kazlik	66
6	1968	The Stalking Moon	Cavalry Officer (uncredited)	59
7	1969	Moon Zero Two	Capt. William H. Kemp	50
8	1970	Crescendo	Georges Ryman / Jacques Ryman	51
9	1971	The Andromeda Strain	Dr. Mark Hall	70
10	1971	Wild Rovers	Joe Billings	63
11	1971	Paper Man	Art Fletcher	63
12	1972	The Groundstar Conspiracy	Senator Stanton	62
13	1973	Incident on a Dark Street	Joe Dubbs	50
14	1973	Legend in Granite	Mas McGee	0
15	1974	Manhunter	Walt Hovis	70
16	1974	A Tree Grows in Brooklyn	McShane	0
17	1974	The Sex Symbol	Calvin Bernard	30
18	1975	The Family Nobody Wanted	Carl Doss	58
19	1975	Someone I Touched	Sam Hyatt	54
20	1975	Man on the Outside	Gerald Griffin	0
21	1975	Strange New World	Surgeon	35
22	1976	Law and Order	Insp. Ed Shea	0
23	1977	The Spell	Glenn	49
24	1977	The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer	Gen. George Armstrong Custer	0
25	1978	The Mafu Cage	David	63
26	1978	No Prince for My Cinderella	Burt Williams	0
27	1979	Visions of Christmas Past		0
28	1980	The Silent Lovers	Victor Seastrom	20
29	1981	Ragtime	Father	70
30	1982	Amityville II: The Possession	Father Adamsky	57
31	1983	Cave-In!	Tom Arlen	45
32	1984	The Parade	Andy Janacek	0
33	1985	Commando	Major General Franklin Kirby	67
34	1985	North Beach and Rawhide	Bill Cassidy	0
35	1986	One Police Plaza	Whitney Zangline	0
36	1988	Rachel River	Jack Canon	70

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1950	Robert Montgomery Presents	Capt. Dicer	52
2	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	General George A. Custer	87
3	1955	Gunsmoke	Bede Stalcup	66
4	1957	Have Gun, Will Travel		74
5	1959	Bonanza	Vance	75
6	1960	Route 66		64
7	1965	The F.B.I.	Sheriff Bill Temple	56
8	1965	The F.B.I.	George Breen	56
9	1965	The F.B.I.	Carl Slovich	56
10	1967	Ironside		69
11	1967	Ironside	Marvin Bosner	69
12	1967	Mannix		67
13	1967	Mannix	Donald Jordan	67
14	1968	Hawaii Five-O	Mariss	71
15	1968	Hawaii Five-O	Stoner	71
16	1968	Hawaii Five-O	Bernie Brown	71
17	1968	Hawaii Five-O	Travis Marshall	71
18	1968	Hawaii Five-O	Dr. Kenneth Ames	71
19	1968	Lancer		47
20	1970	McCloud		71
21	1971	Cannon		65
22	1971	Columbo	Paul Rifkin	81
23	1971	McMillan & Wife	W.T. Knox	73
24	1972	The Rookies		69
25	1972	Maude		67
26	1972	The Streets of San Francisco		70
27	1972	The Streets of San Francisco	Dr. Jonas Rabb	70
28	1972	Kung Fu		76
29	1973	Barnaby Jones	Randall Stone	70
30	1973	Police Story		71
31	1974	Harry O		46
32	1974	Police Woman		63
33	1974	The New Land		50
34	1975	Wonder Woman	Wotan	70
35	1976	The Bionic Woman		70
36	1978	Project U.F.O.		67
37	1978	The Runaways		50
38	1978	Battlestar Galactica	Thane	71
39	1982	Matt Houston		62
40	1984	Murder, She Wrote	Clarence La Rue	75
41	1987	Jake and the Fatman		60
42	1990	The Family Man		62