James Olson

James Olson

Birthday: 1930-10-08

Deathday: 2022-04-17

Place of birth: Evanston, Illinois, USA

Also known as:

imdb_id: nm0647921

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.

Played in movies:

The Andromeda Strain

Score: 7.1

Ragtime

Score: 7.0

Rachel River

Score: 7.0

Commando

Score: 6.7

Rachel, Rachel

Score: 6.6

Manhunter

Score: 6.5

The Strange One

Score: 6.4

Wild Rovers

Score: 6.3

The Groundstar Conspiracy

Score: 6.2

The Mafu Cage

Score: 6.1

The Stalking Moon

Score: 5.9

Paper Man

Score: 5.8

The Family Nobody Wanted

Score: 5.8

Amityville II: The Possession

Score: 5.7

Someone I Touched

Score: 5.4

The Sharkfighters

Score: 5.3

Crescendo

Score: 5.1

The Spell

Score: 5.0

Incident on a Dark Street

Score: 5.0

Moon Zero Two

Score: 4.9

Strange New World

Score: 3.7

The Silent Lovers

Score: 3.5

Cave-In!

Score: 3.3

The Sex Symbol

Score: 3.0

The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer

Score: 2.0

The Parade

Score: 1.0

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Score: 0.0

Law and Order

Score: 0.0

One Police Plaza

Score: 0.0

The Three Sisters

Score: 0.0

An Enemy of the People

Score: 0.0

Legend in Granite

Score: 0.0

North Beach and Rawhide

Score: 0.0

Man on the Outside

Score: 0.0

Visions of Christmas Past

Score: 0.0

No Prince for My Cinderella

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Score: 8.6

Columbo

Score: 8.1

Kung Fu

Score: 7.7

Murder, She Wrote

Score: 7.5

Bonanza

Score: 7.5

Have Gun, Will Travel

Score: 7.4

Hawaii Five-O

Score: 7.1

Hawaii Five-O

Score: 7.1

Hawaii Five-O

Score: 7.1

Hawaii Five-O

Score: 7.1

Hawaii Five-O

Score: 7.1

McCloud

Score: 7.1

Battlestar Galactica

Score: 7.1

Wonder Woman

Score: 7.0

The Bionic Woman

Score: 7.0

The Streets of San Francisco

Score: 6.9

The Streets of San Francisco

Score: 6.9

Barnaby Jones

Score: 6.9

McMillan & Wife

Score: 6.9

Police Story

Score: 6.9

Ironside

Score: 6.8

Ironside

Score: 6.8

The Rookies

Score: 6.8

Maude

Score: 6.7

Project U.F.O.

Score: 6.7

Mannix

Score: 6.7

Mannix

Score: 6.7

Gunsmoke

Score: 6.6

Cannon

Score: 6.5

Route 66

Score: 6.3

Police Woman

Score: 6.3

The Family Man

Score: 6.2

Matt Houston

Score: 6.2

Jake and the Fatman

Score: 6.1

Medical Center

Score: 6.1

Robert Montgomery Presents

Score: 5.6

The F.B.I.

Score: 5.5

The F.B.I.

Score: 5.5

The F.B.I.

Score: 5.5

The Runaways

Score: 5.0

The New Land

Score: 5.0

Lancer

Score: 4.7

Harry O

Score: 4.6