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