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