
Cast
James Olson
Acting
Cast
James Olson
Known for
Acting
Born
1930-10-08
From
Evanston, Illinois, USA
Died
2022-04-17
Biography
James Olson (October 8, 1930 β 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.

Commando
as Major General Franklin Kirby

Ragtime
as Father

The Andromeda Strain
as Dr. Mark Hall

Amityville II: The Possession
as Father Adamsky

The Mafu Cage
as David

Moon Zero Two
as Capt. William H. Kemp

The Stalking Moon
as Cavalry Officer (uncredited)

The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer
as Gen. George Armstrong Custer

The Parade
as Andy Janacek

Someone I Touched
as Sam Hyatt

Rachel, Rachel
as Nick Kazlik

The Sharkfighters
as Ens. Harold Duncan

Paper Man
as Art Fletcher

The Groundstar Conspiracy
as Senator Stanton

The Spell
as Glenn

Strange New World
as Surgeon

An Enemy of the People

Manhunter
as Walt Hovis

Wild Rovers
as Joe Billings

Law and Order
as Insp. Ed Shea

The Silent Lovers
as Victor Seastrom

Incident on a Dark Street
as Joe Dubbs

One Police Plaza
as Whitney Zangline

No Prince for My Cinderella
as Burt Williams

Visions of Christmas Past

The Strange One
as Roger Gatt

The Sex Symbol
as Calvin Bernard

Rachel River
as Jack Canon

North Beach and Rawhide
as Bill Cassidy

The Three Sisters
as Baron Tuzenbach

Crescendo
as Georges Ryman / Jacques Ryman

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
as McShane

The Family Nobody Wanted
as Carl Doss

Cave-In!
as Tom Arlen

Legend in Granite
as Mas McGee

Man on the Outside
as Gerald Griffin