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