Known For
Acting
Born
Oct 08, 1930
Died
Apr 17, 2022
Place of Birth
Evanston, Illinois, USA
Credits
73 titles
James Olson
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
Filmography
The Family Man
Rachel River
Jack Canon
Jake and the Fatman
One Police Plaza
Whitney Zangline
North Beach and Rawhide
Bill Cassidy
Commando
Major General Franklin Kirby
Murder, She Wrote
Clarence La Rue
The Parade
Andy Janacek
Cave-In!
Tom Arlen
Matt Houston
Amityville II: The Possession
Father Adamsky
American Playhouse
Jack Canon
Ragtime
Father
The Silent Lovers
Victor Seastrom
Visions of Christmas Past
Battlestar Galactica
Thane
The Runaways
No Prince for My Cinderella
Burt Williams
The Mafu Cage
David
Project U.F.O.
The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer
Gen. George Armstrong Custer
The Spell
Glenn
Law and Order
Insp. Ed Shea
The Bionic Woman
Wonder Woman
Wotan
Strange New World
Surgeon
Man on the Outside
Gerald Griffin
Someone I Touched
Sam Hyatt
The Family Nobody Wanted
Carl Doss
The Sex Symbol
Calvin Bernard
The New Land
Police Woman
Harry O
Little House on the Prairie
Reverend Jacob Danforth
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
McShane
Manhunter
Walt Hovis
Legend in Granite
Mas McGee
Police Story
Barnaby Jones
Randall Stone
Incident on a Dark Street
Joe Dubbs
Kung Fu
Damion
The Streets of San Francisco
Maude
Sen. Bob Myers
The Rookies
The Groundstar Conspiracy
Senator Stanton
Paper Man
Art Fletcher
McMillan & Wife
W.T. Knox
Columbo
Paul Rifkin
Cannon
Wild Rovers
Joe Billings