James Olson
Born in Evanston, Illinois, USA — Oct 08 1930• Died Apr 17 2022
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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 Pi…
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Murder, She Wrote
Clarence La Rue
Columbo
Paul Rifkin
Bonanza
Vance
Ironside
Mannix
Have Gun, Will Travel
Hawaii Five-O
Mariss
Robert Montgomery Presents
Capt. Dicer
Medical Center
Dave Toland
The F.B.I.
Sheriff Bill Temple
Police Woman
Cannon
Route 66
Jake and the Fatman
The Rookies
Barnaby Jones
Randall Stone
McCloud
Matt Houston
Harry O
McMillan & Wife
W.T. Knox
Gunsmoke
Bede Stalcup
The Streets of San Francisco
The Bionic Woman
Lancer
Police Story
Battlestar Galactica
Thane
Wonder Woman
Wotan
Maude
Sen. Bob Myers
Project U.F.O.
Commando
Major General Franklin Kirby
Hallmark Hall of Fame
General George A. Custer
The Family Man
The Andromeda Strain
Dr. Mark Hall
The Runaways
Ragtime
Father
The New Land
Amityville II: The Possession
Father Adamsky
Rachel, Rachel
Nick Kazlik
The Stalking Moon
Cavalry Officer (uncredited)
Wild Rovers
Joe Billings
The Mafu Cage
David
Moon Zero Two
Capt. William H. Kemp
Kung Fu
Damion
The Strange One
Roger Gatt
Incident on a Dark Street
Joe Dubbs
The Spell
Glenn
The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer
Gen. George Armstrong Custer
One Police Plaza
Whitney Zangline
The Sex Symbol
Calvin Bernard
Manhunter
Walt Hovis
Rachel River
Jack Canon
Cave-In!
Tom Arlen
The Three Sisters
Baron Tuzenbach
The Groundstar Conspiracy
Senator Stanton
The Parade
Andy Janacek
Man on the Outside
Gerald Griffin
Law and Order
Insp. Ed Shea
Paper Man
Art Fletcher
The Silent Lovers
Victor Seastrom
The Sharkfighters
Ens. Harold Duncan
An Enemy of the People
Strange New World
Surgeon
Crescendo
Georges Ryman / Jacques Ryman
Someone I Touched
Sam Hyatt
North Beach and Rawhide
Bill Cassidy
Legend in Granite
Mas McGee
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
McShane
Visions of Christmas Past
The Family Nobody Wanted
Carl Doss
No Prince for My Cinderella
Burt Williams