
James Olson
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.
Acting (35 movies)

The Andromeda Strain
1971

The Stalking Moon
1968

Ragtime
1981

Moon Zero Two
1969

Rachel, Rachel
1968

Incident on a Dark Street
1973

Crescendo
1970

The Groundstar Conspiracy
1972

The Sharkfighters
1956

No Prince for My Cinderella
1978

Manhunter
1974

Cave-In!
1983

The Sex Symbol
1974

Someone I Touched
1975

The Family Nobody Wanted
1975

Visions of Christmas Past
1979

Strange New World
1975

The Mafu Cage
1978

Man on the Outside
1975

The Spell
1977

The Silent Lovers
1980

The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer
1977

Rachel River
1989

Commando
1985

North Beach and Rawhide
1985

An Enemy of the People
1966

Wild Rovers
1971

The Parade
1984

The Three Sisters
1966

Paper Man
1971

One Police Plaza
1986

Amityville II: The Possession
1982

Law and Order
1976

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
1974

The Strange One
1957
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