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James Olson
Known for: ActingJames 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.
Filmography 15
Commando
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as Major General Franklin Kirby 
The Andromeda Strain
as Dr. Mark Hall 
Amityville II: The Possession
as Father Adamsky 
The Mafu Cage
as David 
Ragtime
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as Father 
The Stalking Moon
+1
as Cavalry Officer (uncredited) 
Rachel, Rachel
as Nick Kazlik 
Wild Rovers
as Joe Billings 
Strange New World
as Surgeon 
Moon Zero Two
as Capt. William H. Kemp 
Someone I Touched
as Sam Hyatt 
The Spell
as Glenn 
Incident on a Dark Street
as Joe Dubbs 
Paper Man
as Art Fletcher 
Crescendo
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as Georges Ryman / Jacques Ryman