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Acting
Birthday
October 8, 1930
Died
April 17, 2022
Place of Birth
Evanston, Illinois, USA
James Olson
0.9 Popularity
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.
Known For
6.2
The Family Man
1990
7.0
Jack Canon
Rachel River
1989
6.2
Jake and the Fatman
1987
0.0
Whitney Zangline
One Police Plaza
1986
0.0
Bill Cassidy
North Beach and Rawhide
1985
6.7
Major General Franklin Kirby
Commando
1985
7.5
Clarence La Rue
Murder, She Wrote
1984
1.0
Andy Janacek
The Parade
1984
3.8
Tom Arlen
Cave-In!
1983
6.2
Matt Houston
1982
Credits
The Family Man
1990
6.2
Rachel River
as Jack Canon
1989
7.0
Jake and the Fatman
1987
6.2
One Police Plaza
as Whitney Zangline
1986
0.0
North Beach and Rawhide
as Bill Cassidy
1985
0.0
Commando
as Major General Franklin Kirby
1985
6.7
Murder, She Wrote
as Clarence La Rue
1984
7.5
The Parade
as Andy Janacek
1984
1.0
Cave-In!
as Tom Arlen
1983
3.8
Matt Houston
1982
6.2
Amityville II: The Possession
as Father Adamsky
1982
5.7
Ragtime
as Father
1981
7.0
The Silent Lovers
as Victor Seastrom
1980
3.5
Visions of Christmas Past
1979
0.0
Battlestar Galactica
as Thane
1978
7.1
The Runaways
1978
5.0
No Prince for My Cinderella
as Burt Williams
1978
0.0
The Mafu Cage
as David
1978
5.8
Project U.F.O.
1978
6.7
The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer
as Gen. George Armstrong Custer
1977
2.0
The Spell
as Glenn
1977
5.0
Law and Order
as Insp. Ed Shea
1976
0.0
The Bionic Woman
1976
6.9
Wonder Woman
as Wotan
1975
7.0
Strange New World
as Surgeon
1975
3.9
Man on the Outside
as Gerald Griffin
1975
0.0
Someone I Touched
as Sam Hyatt
1975
4.9
The Family Nobody Wanted
as Carl Doss
1975
5.8
The Sex Symbol
as Calvin Bernard
1974
2.3
🎬
The New Land
1974
5.0
Police Woman
1974
6.2
Harry O
1974
4.6
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
as McShane
1974
0.0
Manhunter
as Walt Hovis
1974
6.5
🎬
Legend in Granite
as Mas McGee
1973
0.0
Police Story
1973
6.9
Barnaby Jones
as Randall Stone
1973
6.9
Incident on a Dark Street
as Joe Dubbs
1973
5.0
Kung Fu
as Damion
1972
7.7
The Streets of San Francisco
1972
7.0
The Streets of San Francisco
as Dr. Jonas Rabb
1972
7.0
Maude
as Sen. Bob Myers
1972
6.7
The Rookies
1972
6.8
The Groundstar Conspiracy
as Senator Stanton
1972
6.2
Paper Man
as Art Fletcher
1971
5.8
McMillan & Wife
as W.T. Knox
1971
6.9
Columbo
as Paul Rifkin
1971
8.1
Cannon
1971
6.6
Wild Rovers
as Joe Billings
1971
6.2
The Andromeda Strain
as Dr. Mark Hall
1971
7.0
San Francisco International Airport
as Professor Theodore Tragis
1970
0.0
Crescendo
as Georges Ryman / Jacques Ryman
1970
5.0
McCloud
1970
7.1
Moon Zero Two
as Capt. William H. Kemp
1969
4.7
Medical Center
as Dave Toland
1969
6.1
The Stalking Moon
as Cavalry Officer (uncredited)
1968
5.9
Lancer
1968
4.7
Hawaii Five-O
as Mariss
1968
7.1
Hawaii Five-O
as Stoner
1968
7.1
Hawaii Five-O
as Bernie Brown
1968
7.1
Hawaii Five-O
as Travis Marshall
1968
7.1
Hawaii Five-O
as Dr. Kenneth Ames
1968
7.1
Rachel, Rachel
as Nick Kazlik
1968
6.5
Mannix
1967
6.7
Mannix
as Donald Jordan
1967
6.7
Ironside
1967
6.8
Ironside
as Marvin Bosner
1967
6.8
An Enemy of the People
1966
0.0
The Three Sisters
as Baron Tuzenbach
1966
0.0
The F.B.I.
as Sheriff Bill Temple
1965
5.4
The F.B.I.
as George Breen
1965
5.4
The F.B.I.
as Carl Slovich
1965
5.4
Route 66
1960
6.3
Bonanza
as Vance
1959
7.5
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957
7.3
The Strange One
as Roger Gatt
1957
6.4
The Sharkfighters
as Ens. Harold Duncan
1956
5.3
Gunsmoke
as Bede Stalcup
1955
6.6
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as General George A. Custer
1951
8.6
Robert Montgomery Presents
as Capt. Dicer
1950
5.6