James Olson
Acting
Born 1930-10-08
Died 2022-04-17
Evanston, Illinois, USA
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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.
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Filmography
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Acting
44 credits
Columbo
Little House on the Prairie
Bonanza
Murder, She Wrote
Ironside
Hawaii Five-O
Mannix
American Playhouse
Robert Montgomery Presents
Gunsmoke
Barnaby Jones
The F.B.I.
Medical Center
Battlestar Galactica
The Streets of San Francisco
McMillan & Wife
Maude
Wonder Woman
Commando
The Andromeda Strain
Amityville II: The Possession
Ragtime
Hallmark Hall of Fame
San Francisco International Airport
Rachel, Rachel
Moon Zero Two
The Stalking Moon
The Mafu Cage
Wild Rovers
Manhunter
Someone I Touched
Paper Man
The Spell
Law and Order
The Strange One
Incident on a Dark Street
One Police Plaza
The Groundstar Conspiracy
Strange New World
Crescendo
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Kung Fu
Cave-In!
The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer
Other credits
16 credits
Have Gun, Will Travel
Cannon
Jake and the Fatman
Police Woman
Route 66
The Bionic Woman
The Rookies
McCloud
Matt Houston
Police Story
Harry O
Lancer
Project U.F.O.
The Family Man
The Runaways
The New Land
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