James Olson
Birthday
1930/10/08
Day of death
2022/04/17 (91 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Evanston, Illinois, USA
Also know as
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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 alongs...Read more
Acting
(1971) The Andromeda Strain
as Dr. Mark Hall
(1968) The Stalking Moon
as Cavalry Officer (uncredited)
(1981) Ragtime
as Father
(1969) Moon Zero Two
as Capt. William H. Kemp
(1968) Rachel, Rachel
as Nick Kazlik
(1973) Incident on a Dark Street
as Joe Dubbs
(1970) Crescendo
as Georges Ryman / Jacques Ryman
(1972) The Groundstar Conspiracy
as Senator Stanton
(1956) The Sharkfighters
as Ens. Harold Duncan
(1978) No Prince for My Cinderella
as Burt Williams
(1974) Manhunter
as Walt Hovis
(1983) Cave-In!
as Tom Arlen
(1974) The Sex Symbol
as Calvin Bernard
(1975) Someone I Touched
as Sam Hyatt
(1975) The Family Nobody Wanted
as Carl Doss
(1979) Visions of Christmas Past
as ---
(1975) Strange New World
as Surgeon
(1978) The Mafu Cage
as David
(1975) Man on the Outside
as Gerald Griffin
(1977) The Spell
as Glenn
(1980) The Silent Lovers
as Victor Seastrom
(1977) The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer
as Gen. George Armstrong Custer
(1988) Rachel River
as Jack Canon
(1985) Commando
as Major General Franklin Kirby
(1985) North Beach and Rawhide
as Bill Cassidy
(1973) Legend in Granite
as Mas McGee
(1966) An Enemy of the People
as ---
(1971) Wild Rovers
as Joe Billings
(1984) The Parade
as Andy Janacek
(1966) The Three Sisters
as Baron Tuzenbach
(1971) Paper Man
as Art Fletcher
(1986) One Police Plaza
as Whitney Zangline
(1982) Amityville II: The Possession
as Father Adamsky
(1976) Law and Order
as Insp. Ed Shea
(1974) A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
as McShane
(1957) The Strange One
as Roger Gatt
(1971) Columbo
as Paul Rifkin
(1972) The Rookies
as ---
(1972) Kung Fu
as ---
(1965) The F.B.I.
as Sheriff Bill Temple
(1976) The Bionic Woman
as ---
(1968) Hawaii Five-O
as Mariss
(1960) Route 66
as ---
(1972) Maude
as ---
(1972) The Streets of San Francisco
as ---
(1967) Mannix
as ---
(1955) Gunsmoke
as Bede Stalcup
(1975) Wonder Woman
as Wotan
(1987) Jake and the Fatman
as ---
(1971) Cannon
as ---
(1951) Hallmark Hall of Fame
as General George A. Custer
(1967) Ironside
as ---
(1974) Harry O
as ---
(1974) Police Woman
as ---
(1957) Have Gun, Will Travel
as ---
(1973) Police Story
as ---
(1978) Project U.F.O.
as ---
(1968) Lancer
as ---
(1970) McCloud
as ---
(1982) Matt Houston
as ---
(1950) Robert Montgomery Presents
as Capt. Dicer
(1974) The New Land
as ---
(1965) The F.B.I.
as George Breen
(1968) Hawaii Five-O
as Stoner
(1968) Hawaii Five-O
as Bernie Brown
(1968) Hawaii Five-O
as Travis Marshall
(1968) Hawaii Five-O
as Dr. Kenneth Ames
(1967) Mannix
as Donald Jordan
(1978) The Runaways
as ---
(1967) Ironside
as Marvin Bosner
(1971) McMillan & Wife
as W.T. Knox
(1959) Bonanza
as Vance
(1972) The Streets of San Francisco
as Dr. Jonas Rabb
(1990) The Family Man
as ---
(1973) Barnaby Jones
as Randall Stone
(1984) Murder, She Wrote
as Clarence La Rue
(1978) Battlestar Galactica
as Thane
(1965) The F.B.I.
as Carl Slovich
(1969) Medical Center
as Dave Toland