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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.
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- wc Gender: Male
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1930-10-08
- event Death Date 2022-04-17
- school Known for: Acting
- star Popularity: 5.8
- info Birth Place Evanston, Illinois, USA
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smart_display Movies and TV shows by James Olson
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The Andromeda Strain
1971-03-12
5.9
The Stalking Moon
1968-12-25
7
Ragtime
1981-11-20
5
Moon Zero Two
1969-10-20
6.6
Rachel, Rachel
1968-08-26
5
Incident on a Dark Street
1973-01-13
5.1
Crescendo
1970-06-07
6.2
The Groundstar Conspiracy
1972-06-12
5.3
The Sharkfighters
1956-11-01
0
No Prince for My Cinderella
1978-04-27
7
Manhunter
1974-02-26
4.5
Cave-In!
1983-06-19
3
The Sex Symbol
1974-09-17
5.4
Someone I Touched
1975-02-26
5.8
The Family Nobody Wanted
1975-02-19
0
Visions of Christmas Past
1979-12-28
3.5
Strange New World
1975-07-13
6.3
The Mafu Cage
1978-03-19
0
Man on the Outside
1975-06-29
4.9
The Spell
1977-02-20
2
The Silent Lovers
1980-05-20
0
The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer
1977-12-01
7
Rachel River
1988-01-01
6.7
Commando
1985-10-03
0
North Beach and Rawhide
1985-11-12
0
Legend in Granite
1973-12-14
0
An Enemy of the People
1966-12-02
6.3
Wild Rovers
1971-06-23
0
The Parade
1984-02-29
0
The Three Sisters
1966-01-01
6.3
Paper Man
1971-11-12
0
One Police Plaza
1986-11-29
5.7
Amityville II: The Possession
1982-09-24
0
Law and Order
1976-05-06
0
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
1974-03-27
6.4
The Strange One
1957-04-12
8.1
Columbo
1971-09-15
6.9
The Rookies
1972-09-11
7.6
Kung Fu
1972-10-14
5.6
The F.B.I.
1965-09-19
7
The Bionic Woman
1976-01-14
7.2
Hawaii Five-O
1968-09-20
6.4
Route 66
1960-10-07
6.7
Maude
1972-09-12
7.1
The Streets of San Francisco
1972-09-23
6.7
Mannix
1967-09-16
6.6
Gunsmoke
1955-09-10
7.1
Wonder Woman
1975-11-07
5.9
Jake and the Fatman
1987-09-26
6.5
Cannon
1971-09-14
8.7
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951-12-24
7
Ironside
1967-03-28
4.6
Harry O
1974-09-12
7.4
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957-09-14
6.3
Police Woman
1974-09-13
7.1
Police Story
1973-03-20
6.7
Project U.F.O.
1978-02-19
4.7
Lancer
1968-09-24
7.1
McCloud
1970-02-17
6.2
Matt Houston
1982-09-26
5.2
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950-01-30
5
The New Land
1974-09-14
5.6
The F.B.I.
1965-09-19
7.2
Hawaii Five-O
1968-09-20
7.2
Hawaii Five-O
1968-09-20
7.2
Hawaii Five-O
1968-09-20
7.2
Hawaii Five-O
1968-09-20
6.7
Mannix
1967-09-16
5
The Runaways
1978-04-27
7
Ironside
1967-03-28
7.3
McMillan & Wife
1971-09-29
7.5
Bonanza
1959-09-12
7.1
The Streets of San Francisco
1972-09-23
6.2
The Family Man
1990-09-11
7
Barnaby Jones
1973-01-28
7.5
Murder, She Wrote
1984-09-30
7.1
Battlestar Galactica
1978-09-17
5.6
The F.B.I.
1965-09-19