1930-10-08 ( 94 years old ) in Evanston, Illinois, USA
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.
Movies
Rachel River
1988-01-01
One Police Plaza
1986-11-29
North Beach and Rawhide
1985-11-12
Commando
1985-10-03
The Parade
1984-02-29
Cave-In!
1983-06-19
Amityville II: The Possession
1982-09-24
Ragtime
1981-11-20
The Silent Lovers
1980-05-20
Visions of Christmas Past
1979-12-28
No Prince for My Cinderella
1978-04-27
The Mafu Cage
1978-03-19
The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer
1977-12-01
The Spell
1977-02-20
Law and Order
1976-05-06
Strange New World
1975-07-13
Man on the Outside
1975-06-29
Someone I Touched
1975-02-26
The Family Nobody Wanted
1975-02-19
The Sex Symbol
1974-09-17
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
1974-03-27
Manhunter
1974-02-26
Legend in Granite
1973-12-14
Incident on a Dark Street
1973-01-13
The Groundstar Conspiracy
1972-06-12
Paper Man
1971-11-12
Wild Rovers
1971-06-23
The Andromeda Strain
1971-03-12
Crescendo
1970-06-07
Moon Zero Two
1969-10-20
The Stalking Moon
1968-12-25
Rachel, Rachel
1968-08-26
An Enemy of the People
1966-12-02
The Three Sisters
1966-01-01
The Strange One
1957-04-12
The Sharkfighters
1956-11-01
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