John Ericson

Acting • Born 1926-09-23 – Died 2020-05-03

Acting1Düsseldorf, Germany

Biography

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.

Filmography

91 credits

It's a Big Country

Movie • 1951

Naval Ensign (uncredited)

Bedknobs and Broomsticks

Movie • 1971

Col. Heller

The Bamboo Saucer

Movie • 1968

Fred Norwood

7 Faces of Dr. Lao

Movie • 1964

Ed Cunningham / Transformed Pan

Bad Day at Black Rock

Movie • 1955

Pete Wirth

Forty Guns

Movie • 1957

Brockie Drummond

I Am Semiramis

Movie • 1963

Kir

Hog Wild

Movie • 1974

Morris Melborne

The Cruel Tower

Movie • 1956

Tom Kittredge

The Student Prince

Movie • 1954

Count Von Asterburg

Green Fire

Movie • 1954

Donald Knowland

The House of the Dead

Movie • 1978

Talmudge

Rhapsody

Movie • 1954

James Guest

Crash!

Movie • 1976

Dr. Gregg Martin

Under Ten Flags

Movie • 1960

Lieutenant Krüger

Heads or Tails

Movie • 1969

William Huston / Will Hunter / 'Black Talisman'

The Vengeance of Pancho Villa

Movie • 1967

Don Diego Alvarado / Diego Owens

Teresa

Movie • 1951

Philip Cass

The Return of Jack Slade

Movie • 1955

Jack Slade

The Destructors

Movie • 1968

Dutch Holland

The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller

Movie • 2002

Brockie Drummond (archive footage)

Murder Impossible

Movie • 1974

Murray

Final Mission

Movie • 1984

The Colonel

Oregon Passage

Movie • 1957

Lt. Niles Ord

Hustler Squad

Movie • 1976

The Ghosts of Buxley Hall

Movie • 1980

George Ross

The Money Jungle

Movie • 1967

Blake Heller

Operation Atlantis

Movie • 1965

George Steele

Day of the Badman

Movie • 1958

Sheriff Barney Wiley

The Bounty Man

Movie • 1972

Billy Riddle

Pretty Boy Floyd

Movie • 1960

Charles Arthur 'Pretty Boy' Floyd

Primary Target

Movie • 1990

Great Lady Has an Interview

Movie • 1954

Reporter (uncredited)

Heritage of Anger

Movie • 1956

Johnny Hanneman

Hawkins

TV • 1973

Frank Pearson

The Fugitive

TV • 1963

Lars

S.W.A.T.

TV • 1975

Honey West

TV • 1965

Sam Bolt

Ironside

TV • 1967

Fred

The A-Team

TV • 1983

Calvin Cutter

Lux Video Theatre

TV • 1950

Mike

The Millionaire

TV • 1955

Sgt. Peter Barkley

Playhouse 90

TV • 1956

Letter to Loretta

TV • 1953

Will Hadley

Appointment with Adventure

TV • 1955

Adventures in Paradise

TV • 1959

Jeff Hazen

Cavalcade of America

TV • 1952

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

TV • 1951

Gunner's Mate Eddie Younger

The David Niven Show

TV • 1959

Twist Thompson

Star Stage

TV • 1955

Climax!

TV • 1954

William Herrick

Wagon Train

TV • 1957

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

TV • 1956

Will Ruxton

The Philco Television Playhouse

TV • 1948

Out There

TV • 1951

General Electric Theater

TV • 1953

Red