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.
72 acting credits
Acting · 72
Columbo
1971
Murder, She Wrote
1984
Mannix
1967
Bonanza
1959
Ironside
1967
Little House on the Prairie
1974
Hawaii Five-O
1968
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950
The F.B.I.
1965
Jake and the Fatman
1987
Medical Center
1969
Route 66
1960
Barnaby Jones
1973
Police Woman
1974
Cannon
1971
The Rookies
1972
Gunsmoke
1955
The Streets of San Francisco
1972
McCloud
1970
Matt Houston
1982
The Bionic Woman
1976
Battlestar Galactica
1978
Harry O
1974
Lancer
1968
McMillan & Wife
1971
Wonder Woman
1975
Police Story
1973
Maude
1972
Commando
1985
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Project U.F.O.
1978
The Family Man
1990
The Runaways
1978
The Andromeda Strain
1971
San Francisco International Airport
1970
Amityville II: The Possession
1982
Ragtime
1981
The Mafu Cage
1978
The Stalking Moon
1968
Kung Fu
1972
Rachel, Rachel
1968
The New Land
1974
Wild Rovers
1971
The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer
1977
The Three Sisters
1966
The Spell
1977
The Groundstar Conspiracy
1972
Incident on a Dark Street
1973
Someone I Touched
1975
Paper Man
1971
The Parade
1984
Cave-In!
1983
The Strange One
1957
Manhunter
1974
Moon Zero Two
1969
Strange New World
1975
The Sex Symbol
1974
Law and Order
1976
North Beach and Rawhide
1985
The Sharkfighters
1956
No Prince for My Cinderella
1978
One Police Plaza
1986
An Enemy of the People
1966
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
1974
Visions of Christmas Past
1979
Crescendo
1970
Legend in Granite
1973
Man on the Outside
1975
The Family Nobody Wanted
1975
Rachel River
1989
The Silent Lovers
1980