Acting · Evanston, Illinois, USA · Born October 8, 1930
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.
TVThe Family Man
1990
MovieRachel River
1989
as Jack Canon
TVJake and the Fatman
1987
MovieOne Police Plaza
1986
as Whitney Zangline
MovieNorth Beach and Rawhide
1985
as Bill Cassidy
MovieCommando
1985
as Major General Franklin Kirby
TVMurder, She Wrote
1984
as Clarence La Rue
MovieThe Parade
1984
as Andy Janacek
MovieCave-In!
1983
as Tom Arlen
TVMatt Houston
1982
MovieAmityville II: The Possession
1982
as Father Adamsky
TVAmerican Playhouse
1982
as Jack Canon
MovieRagtime
1981
as Father
MovieThe Silent Lovers
1980
as Victor Seastrom
MovieVisions of Christmas Past
1979
TVBattlestar Galactica
1978
as Thane
MovieNo Prince for My Cinderella
1978
as Burt Williams
TVThe Runaways
1978
MovieThe Mafu Cage
1978
as David
TVProject U.F.O.
1978
MovieThe Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer
1977
as Gen. George Armstrong Custer
MovieThe Spell
1977
as Glenn
MovieLaw and Order
1976
as Insp. Ed Shea
TVThe Bionic Woman
1976
TVWonder Woman
1975
as Wotan
MovieStrange New World
1975
as Surgeon
MovieMan on the Outside
1975
as Gerald Griffin
MovieSomeone I Touched
1975
as Sam Hyatt
MovieThe Family Nobody Wanted
1975
as Carl Doss
MovieThe Sex Symbol
1974
as Calvin Bernard
The New Land
1974
TVPolice Woman
1974
TVHarry O
1974
TVLittle House on the Prairie
1974
as Reverend Jacob Danforth
MovieA Tree Grows in Brooklyn
1974
as McShane
MovieManhunter
1974
as Walt Hovis
Legend in Granite
1973
as Mas McGee
TVPolice Story
1973
TVBarnaby Jones
1973
as Randall Stone
MovieIncident on a Dark Street
1973
as Joe Dubbs
TVKung Fu
1972
as Damion
TVThe Streets of San Francisco
1972
TVMaude
1972
as Sen. Bob Myers
TVThe Rookies
1972
MovieThe Groundstar Conspiracy
1972
as Senator Stanton
MoviePaper Man
1971
as Art Fletcher
TVMcMillan & Wife
1971
as W.T. Knox
TVColumbo
1971
as Paul Rifkin
TVCannon
1971
MovieWild Rovers
1971
as Joe Billings
MovieThe Andromeda Strain
1971
as Dr. Mark Hall
TVSan Francisco International Airport
1970
as Professor Theodore Tragis
MovieCrescendo
1970
as Georges Ryman / Jacques Ryman
TVMcCloud
1970
MovieMoon Zero Two
1969
as Capt. William H. Kemp
TVMedical Center
1969
as Dave Toland
MovieThe Stalking Moon
1968
as Cavalry Officer (uncredited)
TVLancer
1968
TVHawaii Five-O
1968
as Mariss
MovieRachel, Rachel
1968
as Nick Kazlik
TVMannix
1967
TVIronside
1967
MovieAn Enemy of the People
1966
MovieThe Three Sisters
1966
as Baron Tuzenbach
TVThe F.B.I.
1965
as Sheriff Bill Temple
TVRoute 66
1960
TVBonanza
1959
as Vance
TVHave Gun, Will Travel
1957
MovieThe Strange One
1957
as Roger Gatt
MovieThe Sharkfighters
1956
as Ens. Harold Duncan
TVGunsmoke
1955
as Bede Stalcup
TVHallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as General George A. Custer
TVRobert Montgomery Presents
1950
as Capt. Dicer
