Leif Erickson

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Leif Erickson (born William Wycliffe Anderson) was an American stage, film, and television actor. Erickson was born in Alameda, California, near San Francisco. He worked as a soloist in a band as vocalist and trombone player, performed in Max Reinhardt's productions, and then gained a small amount of stage experience in a comedy vaudeville act. Initially billed by Paramount Pictures as Glenn Erickson, he began his screen career as a leading man in Westerns. Erickson enlisted in the United States Navy during World War II. Rising to the rank of Chief Petty Officer in the Naval Aviation Photographic Unit, he served as a military photographer, shooting film in combat zones, and as an instructor. He was shot down twice in the Pacific as well as receiving two Purple Hearts. Erickson was in the unit that filmed and photographed the Japanese surrender aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay on September 2, 1945. Over four years service, he shot more than 200,000 feet of film for the Navy. Erickson's first films were two 1933 band films with Betty Grable before starting a string of Buster Crabbe Western films based on Zane Grey novels. He would go on to appears in films such as The Snake Pit, Sorry, Wrong Number, Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd, Invaders from Mars, On the Waterfront, A Gathering of Eagles, Roustabout, The Carpetbaggers and Mirage. One of his more notable roles was as Deborah Kerr's macho husband in the stage and film versions of Tea and Sympathy. He appeared with Greta Garbo, as her brother in Conquest (1937). He played the role of Pete, the vindictive boat engineer, in the 1951 remake of the famed musical Show Boat. His final appearance in a feature film was in Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977). Erickson appeared frequently on television; he was cast as Dr. Hillyer in "Consider Her Ways" (1964) and as Paul White in "The Monkey's Paw—A Retelling" (1965) on CBS's The Alfred Hitchcock Hour. However, he is probably best known for The High Chaparral, which aired on NBC from 1967 until 1971. He portrayed a rancher, Big John Cannon, determined to establish a cattle empire in the Arizona Territory while keeping peace with the Apache. Erickson guest-starred in several television series, including Rawhide, Bonanza, Gunsmoke, Marcus Welby, M.D., Medical Center, Cannon, The Rifleman, The Rockford Files, and the 1977 series Hunter. His final role was in an episode of Fantasy Island in 1984. Erickson was married to actress Frances Farmer from 1936 until 1942. The same day that his divorce from Farmer was finalized, June 12, 1942, he married actress Margaret Hayes. They divorced a month later. He married Ann Diamond in 1945. They had two children, William Leif Erickson (born 1946 - died 1971 in a car accident) and Susan Irene Erickson (born 1950). Erickson died of cancer in Pensacola, Florida, on January 29, 1986, aged 74 CLR

Known For: Acting

Born: Alameda, California, USA, 1911-10-27

Died: 1986-01-29

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1933	Air Tonic	Band Singer	0
2	1935	Wanderer of the Wasteland	Lawrence	50
3	1935	Nevada	Bill Ide	30
4	1936	Drift Fence	Curley Prentice	50
5	1936	Desert Gold	Glenn Kasedon	54
6	1936	Girl of the Ozarks	Tom Bolton	60
7	1936	College Holiday	Dick Winters	52
8	1937	Waikiki Wedding	Dr. Victor Quimby	55
9	1937	Conquest	Paul Lachinski	65
10	1937	Thrill of a Lifetime	Howard Nelson	50
11	1938	The Big Broadcast of 1938	Bob Hayes	61
12	1938	Ride a Crooked Mile	Johnny Simpkins	0
13	1939	One Third of a Nation	Peter Cortlant	58
14	1939	Crisis	Narrator (voice)	0
15	1941	Nothing But the Truth	Tommy Van Dusen	71
16	1941	The Blonde from Singapore	Terry Prescott	50
17	1941	H.M. Pulham, Esq.	Rodney 'Bo-Jo' Brown	69
18	1942	The Fleet's In	Jake	70
19	1942	Are Husbands Necessary?	Bill Stone	0
20	1942	Eagle Squadron	Johnny M. Coe	0
21	1942	Pardon My Sarong	Whaba	65
22	1942	Night Monster	Laurie	62
23	1942	Arabian Nights	Kamar (as Leif Erikson)	60
24	1947	Blonde Savage	Steve Blake	41
25	1947	The Gangster	Beaumont	49
26	1948	The Gay Intruders	Dr. Harold Matson	55
27	1948	Sorry, Wrong Number	Fred Lord	68
28	1948	The Snake Pit	Gordon	71
29	1948	Miss Tatlock's Millions	Dr. Mason	59
30	1948	Joan of Arc	Dunois, Bastard of Orleans	61
31	1949	Johnny Stool Pigeon	Pringle	62
32	1949	The Lady Gambles	Tony	60
33	1950	Mother Didn't Tell Me	Dr. Bruce Gordon	62
34	1950	Stella	Fred Anderson Jr.	0
35	1950	The Showdown	Big Mart	52
36	1950	Three Secrets	Bill Chase	64
37	1950	Dallas	U.S. Marshal Martin Weatherby	65
38	1951	Hill Number One: A Story of Faith and Inspiration	Pilate	40
39	1951	Fourteen Hours	Bit Part (uncredited)	72
40	1951	Show Boat	Pete	61
41	1951	The Tall Target	Stranger	68
42	1951	Reunion in Reno	B. Frederick Linaker	60
43	1952	The Cimarron Kid	Marshal John Sutton	61
44	1952	Sailor Beware	Commander Lane	62
45	1952	With a Song in My Heart	General aboard plane	59
46	1952	Carbine Williams	Feder	64
47	1952	My Wife's Best Friend	Nicholas Reed	54
48	1952	Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd	Morgan	59
49	1953	Never Wave at a WAC	Sgt. Norbert 'Noisy' Jackson	49
50	1953	Born to the Saddle	Bob Marshall	50
51	1953	Trouble Along the Way	Father Provincial aka Ed	59
52	1953	A Perilous Journey	Richards	40
53	1953	Invaders from Mars	Mr. George MacLean	59
54	1953	Fort Algiers	Kalmani	55
55	1953	Captain Scarface	Sam	43
56	1953	Paris Model	Edgar Blevins	30
57	1954	On the Waterfront	Glover	79
58	1956	Star in the Dust	George Ballard	47
59	1956	The Fastest Gun Alive	Lou Glover	69
60	1956	Tea and Sympathy	Bill Reynolds	70
61	1957	Istanbul	Charlie Boyle	60
62	1957	The Vintage	Louis Morel	55
63	1957	Kiss Them for Me	Eddie Turnbill	55
64	1958	Twilight for the Gods	Harry Hutton	42
65	1958	Once Upon a Horse...	Granville "Granny" Dix	85
66	1962	Shootout at Big Sag	Sam Barbee	0
67	1963	A Gathering of Eagles	Gen. Hewitt	54
68	1964	Strait-Jacket	Bill Cutler	66
69	1964	The Carpetbaggers	Jonas Cord Senior	58
70	1964	Roustabout	Joe Lean	60
71	1965	I Saw What You Did	Dave Mannering	62
72	1965	Mirage	The Major	70
73	1971	Man and Boy	Sheriff Mossman	60
74	1971	Terror in the Sky	Marty Treleavan	68
75	1971	The Deadly Dream	Dr. Harold Malcolm	60
76	1972	The New Healers	Dr. Victor Briggs	0
77	1972	The Daughters of Joshua Cabe	Amos Wetherall	52
78	1972	The Family Rico	Mike Lamont	100
79	1973	The Six Million Dollar Man: The Solid Gold Kidnapping	William Henry Cameron	63
80	1975	Force Five	Cal Newkirk	50
81	1975	Abduction	Prescott	32
82	1975	Winterhawk	Guthrie	66
83	1977	The Fantastic Journey	Ben Wallace	60
84	1977	Twilight's Last Gleaming	Ralph Whittaker - CIA Director	64

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1948	Bambi-Verleihung	Self (archive footage)	90
2	1951	Schlitz Playhouse of Stars	Dan	73
3	1951	Schlitz Playhouse of Stars	Sam Sargent	73
4	1953	General Electric Theater	Man	63
5	1954	Inner Sanctum		70
6	1954	Climax!	Robert Eunson	33
7	1954	Climax!	Richard Carmichael	33
8	1954	Climax!	Doug Randell	33
9	1954	Climax!	Richard Moore	33
10	1955	The Millionaire	Brian Hendricks	50
11	1955	The Millionaire	Norman Conover	50
12	1955	Gunsmoke	Virgil Powell	66
13	1955	Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Wayne Phillips	77
14	1955	Matinee Theater		50
15	1956	Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre	Jim Lewis	55
16	1956	Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre	Cash Wilson	55
17	1958	The Rifleman		70
18	1959	Rawhide	Frank Travis	72
19	1959	Bonanza	Tom Caine	75
20	1959	Bonanza	Josh Tatum	75
21	1959	The DuPont Show with June Allyson	Andrew Middleton	63
22	1959	The Rebel	Dave Blaine	51
23	1961	The New Breed	Dr. Eric Thor	70
24	1962	The Virginian	Peterson	65
25	1962	The Virginian	Charlie Ryan	65
26	1962	The Virginian	Bill King	65
27	1962	The Alfred Hitchcock Hour	Paul White	78
28	1963	Arrest and Trial		77
29	1963	Burke's Law	Jason Hayes	60
30	1963	The Great Adventure	Abel Parrish	0
31	1963	The Great Adventure	President Grover Cleveland	0
32	1963	Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre		57
33	1963	Kraft Suspense Theatre	General	53
34	1964	Daniel Boone	Aaron Burr	69
35	1964	Daniel Boone	Bill Sedley	69
36	1965	Branded		64
37	1967	Ironside		68
38	1967	The High Chaparral	Big John Cannon	65
39	1967	Mannix		67
40	1968	The Mod Squad		63
41	1969	Medical Center		61
42	1970	Night Gallery	Charlie Wheatland	78
43	1971	Cannon		65
44	1972	The Sixth Sense		63
45	1972	The Rookies		68
46	1972	The Streets of San Francisco		69
47	1973	The Evil Touch		55
48	1973	The Magician	Nicholas Olson	67
49	1974	Harry O		46
50	1974	The Rockford Files	Carl Colton 'C.C.' Calloway	75
51	1975	Medical Story		30
52	1977	The Fantastic Journey	Ben Wallace	58
53	1980	Wild Times	John Tyree	60

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