1926-09-23 ( 98 years old ) in Düsseldorf, Germany
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.
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Movies
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
2002-07-02
Primary Target
1990-07-18
Final Mission
1984-07-25
The Ghosts of Buxley Hall
1980-12-21
The House of the Dead
1978-11-22
Crash!
1976-12-24
Hustler Squad
1976-05-07
Murder Impossible
1974-03-26
Hog Wild
1974-01-20
The Bounty Man
1972-10-31
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
1971-10-07
Heads or Tails
1969-06-04
The Bamboo Saucer
1968-10-23
The Destructors
1968-05-03
The Money Jungle
1967-12-15
The Vengeance of Pancho Villa
1967-09-12
Operation Atlantis
1965-10-21
7 Faces of Dr. Lao
1964-03-18
I Am Semiramis
1963-03-22
Under Ten Flags
1960-09-15
Pretty Boy Floyd
1960-01-01
Day of the Badman
1958-01-29
Oregon Passage
1957-12-29
Forty Guns
1957-09-10
The Cruel Tower
1956-10-28
The Return of Jack Slade
1955-10-09
Bad Day at Black Rock
1955-01-13
Green Fire
1954-12-29
The Student Prince
1954-06-15
Rhapsody
1954-04-16
Great Lady Has an Interview
1954-02-14
It's a Big Country
1951-11-20
Teresa
1951-04-05
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