James Olson
Actor
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.
Filmography
The Andromeda Strain
as Dr. Mark Hall 1971
Amityville II: The Possession
as Father Adamsky 1982
Ragtime
as Father 1981
The Stalking Moon
as Cavalry Officer (uncredited) 1968
Rachel, Rachel
as Nick Kazlik 1968
Wild Rovers
as Joe Billings 1971
Moon Zero Two
as Capt. William H. Kemp 1969
The Spell
as Glenn 1977
Crescendo
as Georges Ryman / Jacques Ryman 1970
The Mafu Cage
as David 1978
The Strange One
as Roger Gatt 1957
The Groundstar Conspiracy
as Senator Stanton 1972
Strange New World
as Surgeon 1975
Paper Man
as Art Fletcher 1971
The Sharkfighters
as Ens. Harold Duncan 1956
Someone I Touched
as Sam Hyatt 1975