James Olson
Acting • Born 1930-10-08 – Died 2022-04-17
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.
Filmography
80 credits
The Andromeda Strain
Movie • 1971
Dr. Mark Hall
The Stalking Moon
Movie • 1968
Cavalry Officer (uncredited)
Ragtime
Movie • 1981
Father
Moon Zero Two
Movie • 1969
Capt. William H. Kemp
Rachel, Rachel
Movie • 1968
Nick Kazlik
Incident on a Dark Street
Movie • 1973
Joe Dubbs
Crescendo
Movie • 1970
Georges Ryman / Jacques Ryman
The Groundstar Conspiracy
Movie • 1972
Senator Stanton
The Sharkfighters
Movie • 1956
Ens. Harold Duncan
No Prince for My Cinderella
Movie • 1978
Burt Williams
Manhunter
Movie • 1974
Walt Hovis
Cave-In!
Movie • 1983
Tom Arlen
The Sex Symbol
Movie • 1974
Calvin Bernard
Someone I Touched
Movie • 1975
Sam Hyatt
The Family Nobody Wanted
Movie • 1975
Carl Doss
Visions of Christmas Past
Movie • 1979
Strange New World
Movie • 1975
Surgeon
The Mafu Cage
Movie • 1978
David
Man on the Outside
Movie • 1975
Gerald Griffin
The Spell
Movie • 1977
Glenn
The Silent Lovers
Movie • 1980
Victor Seastrom
The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer
Movie • 1977
Gen. George Armstrong Custer
Rachel River
Movie • 1989
Jack Canon
Commando
Movie • 1985
Major General Franklin Kirby
North Beach and Rawhide
Movie • 1985
Bill Cassidy
Legend in Granite
Movie • 1973
Mas McGee
An Enemy of the People
Movie • 1966
Wild Rovers
Movie • 1971
Joe Billings
The Parade
Movie • 1984
Andy Janacek
The Three Sisters
Movie • 1966
Baron Tuzenbach
Paper Man
Movie • 1971
Art Fletcher
One Police Plaza
Movie • 1986
Whitney Zangline
Amityville II: The Possession
Movie • 1982
Father Adamsky
Law and Order
Movie • 1976
Insp. Ed Shea
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Movie • 1974
McShane
The Strange One
Movie • 1957
Roger Gatt
Columbo
TV • 1971
Paul Rifkin
The Rookies
TV • 1972
The F.B.I.
TV • 1965
Sheriff Bill Temple
The Bionic Woman
TV • 1976
Hawaii Five-O
TV • 1968
Mariss
Route 66
TV • 1960
Maude
TV • 1972
Sen. Bob Myers
The Streets of San Francisco
TV • 1972
Mannix
TV • 1967
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Bede Stalcup
Wonder Woman
TV • 1975
Wotan
Jake and the Fatman
TV • 1987
Cannon
TV • 1971
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
General George A. Custer
Ironside
TV • 1967
Harry O
TV • 1974
Have Gun, Will Travel
TV • 1957
Police Woman
TV • 1974
Police Story
TV • 1973
Project U.F.O.
TV • 1978
Lancer
TV • 1968
McCloud
TV • 1970
Matt Houston
TV • 1982
Robert Montgomery Presents
TV • 1950
Capt. Dicer
The New Land
TV • 1974
The F.B.I.
TV • 1965
George Breen
Hawaii Five-O
TV • 1968
Stoner
Hawaii Five-O
TV • 1968
Bernie Brown
Hawaii Five-O
TV • 1968
Travis Marshall
Hawaii Five-O
TV • 1968
Dr. Kenneth Ames
Mannix
TV • 1967
Donald Jordan
The Runaways
TV • 1978
Ironside
TV • 1967
Marvin Bosner
McMillan & Wife
TV • 1971
W.T. Knox
Bonanza
TV • 1959
Vance
The Streets of San Francisco
TV • 1972
Dr. Jonas Rabb
The Family Man
TV • 1990
Barnaby Jones
TV • 1973
Randall Stone
Murder, She Wrote
TV • 1984
Clarence La Rue
Battlestar Galactica
TV • 1978
Thane
The F.B.I.
TV • 1965
Carl Slovich
Medical Center
TV • 1969
Dave Toland
Kung Fu
TV • 1972
Damion
San Francisco International Airport
TV • 1970
Professor Theodore Tragis