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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.
Most Popular James Olson Trailers
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25 December 1968
While moving a group of Apaches to a Native American reservation in Arizona, an American scout named Sam Varner is surprised to find a white woman, Sarah Carver, living with the tribe.
03 October 1985
John Matrix, the former leader of a special commando strike force that always got the toughest jobs done, is forced back into action when his young daughter is kidnapped.
26 February 1975
A woman learns that her husband has been unfaithful and that she has acquired a venereal disease. Tht
17 September 1974
A thinly-disguised version of the life of Marilyn Monroe, detailing her ups and downs in life and how her erratic behavior contributed to her deteriorating career.
23 June 1971
Ross Bodine and Frank Post are cowhands on Walt Buckman's R-Bar-R ranch. Bodine is older and broods a bit about how he will get along when he's too old to cowboy.
20 November 1981
A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City.
06 May 1976
Story follows three generations of a family in the New York City Police Department.
01 December 1977
General Custer is on trial for the deaths of his men at the Battle of Little Bighorn.
20 February 1977
A distraught mother must cope with her embittered daughter who has the ability to cause "accidents" to happen.
12 November 1971
A prank that starts with a group of college students creating a fictitious person so they can get a credit card develops into a plot that leaves three of them dead.
01 November 1956
Landing on a small island not far from Havana, Cuba, Lt. Cmdr. Ben Staves joins a Navy scientific project engaged in finding an effective shark repellent to help save the lives of WWII military personnel stranded in shark-infested waters.
12 March 1971
When virtually all of the residents of Piedmont, New Mexico, are found dead after the return to Earth of a space satellite, the head of the US Air Force's Project Scoop declares an emergency.
12 June 1972
A break-in and sabotage attempt occurs at a top secret research institute and the culprit is cornered and captured.
29 June 1975
A retired police captain storms angrily out of retirement when his son is shot down before his eyes and his grandson is kidnapped by a syndicate killer in this pilot for Lorne Greene's brief "Griff" series, which went off the air 18 months before this film was aired.
26 February 1974
Pilot movie for the short-lived TV series set in the 1930's about a World War I ex-marine-turned-bounty-hunter, named Dave Barrett, who goes after two Bonnie-and-Clyde style bank robbers who murdered his former girlfriend.
24 September 1982
Anthony and Dolores Montelli, along with their four children, move into their dream house in Amityville and are immediately plagued by a string of paranormal experiences.
20 May 1980
The story of the ill-fated romance between Greta Garbo and John Gilbert.
07 June 1970
An innocent project transforms into a perilous nightmare when researcher Susan Roberts arrives in France in search of information on a deceased composer.
01 January 1988
A divorced mother pursues her career as a radio personality in rural Minnesota.
27 April 1978
Tv pilot of the show The Runaways. A friend of McKay’s who is a cop asks for his help when his daughter is missing.
13 July 1975
In the near future, a group of scientists living in a space ship wake up from a hibernation state and come back to an apocalyptic Earth.
14 December 1973
Follows Vince Lombardi's football career from one of Fordham University's legendary "Seven Blocks of Granite" to one of American football's greatest professional coaches.
29 February 1984
When her estranged, drifter husband Matt returns after spending seven years in prison to ask her to let him be a part of her life again, Rachel Kirby's life is thrown into turmoil, which also affects her teenage daughter and mother.
13 January 1973
A small-time hood is murdered just as he is about to blow the whistle on an organized crime ring.
20 October 1969
On the Moon in the year 2021, a former-astronaut-turned-salvager helps a millionaire space industriar
12 April 1957
A military school student develops a destructive power over his fellow cadets.
02 December 1966
Set in a Norwegian hamlet, an idealistic physician discovers that the town's hot springs are contaminated.
19 June 1983
A party of tourists -- including a state senator, a park ranger who was her one-time lover, a cantankerous professor, and an escaped convict -- are trapped deep inside the caverns of an unnamed national park, rescued briefly, and then caught in a second cave-in.
28 December 1979
A 95-minute TV movie spin-off from the short-lived TV series Shirley (1979), starring Shirley Jones. Shirley is caught up in memories of her late husband as she sets off in a snow storm to buy a Christmas tree for her family.
19 February 1975
A minister and his wife take in poor and troubled children that nobody else wants and soon they find themselves with a family of a dozen kids.
29 November 1986
A veteran New York City Police Lieutenant's investigation of a woman's murder uncovers corruption in high places.
19 March 1978
Two strange sisters live in a crumbling mansion, where they keep a pet ape, which belonged to their late father, locked in a cage.
01 January 1966
In a small Russian town at the turn of the century, three sisters and their brother live but dream daily of their return to their former home in Moscow, where life is charming and stimulating meaningful.
26 August 1968
Rachel is a 35-year-old school teacher who has no man in her life and lives with her mother. When a man from the big city returns and asks her out, she begins to have to make decisions about her life and where she wants it to go.
27 March 1974
The story of a family living in a New York City slum in 1912, headed by a loving but alcoholic father and a strong-willed mother.
12 November 1985
"Boys Town" drama about a man named Rawhide MacGregor, a one-time ex-convict who runs a cattle ranch as a correctional facility for urban juvenile delinquents where he tries through a variety of means and choirs to redeem them from their trouble-making ways.
