James Olson

Known for ActingBorn 1930-10-08Died 2022-04-17Evanston, Illinois, USA

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.Read more

Movies & web series

North Beach and Rawhide

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

An Enemy of the People

One Police Plaza

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Columbo

Law and Order

Man on the Outside

Legend in Granite

Little House on the Prairie

Kung Fu

The Family Man

Murder, She Wrote

Rachel River

The Three Sisters

Bonanza

Have Gun, Will Travel

McCloud

Battlestar Galactica

Hawaii Five-O

Ragtime

The Andromeda Strain

Project U.F.O.

Wonder Woman

The Streets of San Francisco

The Bionic Woman

Police Story

San Francisco International Airport

Barnaby Jones

McMillan & Wife

Maude

The Rookies

Commando

Ironside

Mannix

Manhunter

Cannon

Route 66

Rachel, Rachel

The Runaways

Gunsmoke

Police Woman

The Family Nobody Wanted

Matt Houston

The Strange One

Jake and the Fatman

Medical Center

The Groundstar Conspiracy