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.
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Full filmography
- Columbo (1971) as Paul Rifkin
- Mannix (1967)
- Mannix (1967) as Donald Jordan
- Murder, She Wrote (1984) as Clarence La Rue
- Robert Montgomery Presents (1950) as Capt. Dicer
- Bonanza (1959) as Vance
- Hawaii Five-O (1968) as Mariss
- Hawaii Five-O (1968) as Stoner
- Hawaii Five-O (1968) as Bernie Brown
- Hawaii Five-O (1968) as Travis Marshall
- Hawaii Five-O (1968) as Dr. Kenneth Ames
- Ironside (1967)
- Ironside (1967) as Marvin Bosner
- Little House on the Prairie (1974) as Reverend Jacob Danforth
- Jake and the Fatman (1987)
- Gunsmoke (1955) as Bede Stalcup
- Cannon (1971)
- Have Gun, Will Travel (1957)
- Police Woman (1974)
- The Rookies (1972)
- The F.B.I. (1965) as Sheriff Bill Temple
- The F.B.I. (1965) as George Breen
- The F.B.I. (1965) as Carl Slovich
- Medical Center (1969) as Dave Toland