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John Ericson (sometimes Erickson; born Joachim Alexander Ottokar Meibes; September 25, 1926 - May 3, 2020) was a German-American actor and film and television star. He trained at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York, played the lead role in Stalag 17 by Donald Bevan and Edmund Trzcinski on Broadway (1951). He went on to make a number of films for MGM in quick succession in the 1950s. His first appearance was in Teresa (1951), directed by Fred Zinnemann, which also launched the film careers of Pier Angeli and Rod Steiger. He then went on to appear in a series of films which included Rhapsody, The Student Prince, Green Fire (all in 1954), and Bad Day at Black Rock (1955).
His career continued, mostly on television, for the next thirty years. He appeared in the lead role in "The Peter Bartley Story" of CBS's fantasy drama, The Millionaire. Child actor Johnny Washbrook appeared in the same episode in a flashback segment of Ericson as a boy. He appeared with Dorothy Malone in the January 1, 1956, episode entitled "Mutiny" of CBS's Appointment with Adventure. He guest-starred in 1958 in the NBC western series The Restless Gun, starring John Payne. He also guest-starred in the 1961 ABC crime drama, Target: The Corruptors! In 1965-1966, he co-starred with Anne Francis in the detective series Honey West. He occasionally appeared in such films as Pretty Boy Floyd (1960), 7 Faces of Dr. Lao (1964), and Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971).
He was married twice and had two children from his first marriage to Milly Coury.
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18 March 1964
An old Chinese man rides into the town of Abalone, Arizona and changes it forever, as the citizens see themselves reflected in the mirror of Lao's mysterious circus of mythical beasts.
15 September 1960
"Under Ten Flags" is a WWII movie loosely based on the true story of the German navy commerce raider Atlantis, a converted Auxilliary Cruiser, and her Captain Bernhard Rogge.
15 June 1954
A prince has a romance with a barmaid before he must give up personal happiness for duty.
07 May 1976
World War II: Allied Command learns that in 60 days three Japanese generals and an admiral party at a bordello on a tiny Philippine island.
21 December 1980
Ghosts and a young cadet try to save a military academy from being closed.
05 April 1951
An Italian war bride has problems dealing with her husband's possessive mother.
22 March 1963
Semiramis, a powerful and beautiful Assyrian queen, oversees the construction of the luxurious city of Babylon.
12 September 1967
During the Mexican Revolution, Pancho Villa is wounded and left his large treasure in gold back in the city of Colón.
16 April 1954
A rich, young beauty, Louise Durant, follows the man she loves and hopes to marry to Zurich where he studies violin at the conservatory.
29 January 1958
Judge Jim Scott must contend with the vicious relatives of a murderer he's about to sentence...and his unfaithful fiancee.
21 October 1965
An American agent discovers that the Red Chinese have built a secret atomic city from which they will attempt to invade America.
15 December 1967
When four geologists who form a combine of five industrial companies turn up dead, the race is on to determine whether the culprit is a group of high-powered industrial interests or the government.
09 October 1955
To redeem his father's wrongdoings, Ericson joins the law to fight outlaws.
31 October 1972
Kinkaid is a rugged, hard-driving bounty hunter, determined to find outlaw Billy Riddle. He tracks Billy, takes him captive, and starts the long trek to justice.
07 October 1971
Three children evacuated from London during World War II are forced to stay with an eccentric spinster.
02 July 2002
Samuel Fuller discusses his career as a filmmaker, illustrated by plenty of clips.
26 March 1974
A scientist is murdered and his new invention is stolen and held for ransom.
25 July 1984
When his family are murdered Vietnam War veteran, Vince Deacon, tracks down the man responsible for the murders and to get his revenge.
28 October 1956
The story of a bunch of hard-drinking steeplejacks.
20 November 1951
Comprised of eight unrelated episodes of inconsistent quality, this anthology piece of American propaganda features some of MGM Studios' best directors, screenwriters and actors; it is narrated by Louis Calhern.
29 December 1957
A cavalry lieutenant becomes a hated enemy of a Shoshone chief, Black Eagle, when he rescues an Indian maid from a ceremonial camp in this action-packed Western.
10 September 1957
An authoritarian rancher rules an Arizona county with her private posse of hired guns. When a new Marshall arrives to set things straight, the cattle queen finds herself falling for the avowedly non-violent lawman.
03 May 1968
Foreign agents are after a substance called "laser rubies" that can power a killer laser beam. Government agents are dispatched to protect the rubies and eliminate the foreign agents.
13 January 1955
One-armed war veteran John J. Macreedy steps off a train at the sleepy little town of Black Rock. Once there, he begins to unravel a web of lies, secrecy, and murder.
18 July 1990
A team of Vietnam vets, who now work as mercenaries, faces off against their former wartime comrade turned warlord, who's kidnapped the wife of a US diplomat and is holding her in his base of operations somewhere in the jungles of Laos.
22 November 1978
When a philandering husband accidentally finds himself lost during a rainstorm, he’s taken in by an elderly mortician and is forced to learn the ghastly origins of four freshly arrived corpses.
23 October 1968
A flying saucer hidden in a Red Chinese peasant village is sought by teams from the United States and U.
20 January 1974
A Chicago man and his family move to an Idaho pig farm, where he's crippled by an angry sow.
29 December 1954
In Colombia, mining engineer Rian Mitchell discovers Carrero, the lost emerald mine of the Conquistadors, but has to contend with notorious local bandit El Moro's gang and with coffee planter Catherine Knowland's love.
14 February 1954
A brunette Lana Turner stars in this live song and dance performance of "A Great Lady Has An Interview" to celebrate MGM's 30th anniversary on "The Ed Sullivan Show".
24 December 1976
After a professor is crippled in a car accident, he blames his wife for the ordeal and attempts to have her killed using the same means.
04 June 1969
Shanda is charged with the murder of the banker, Burton and to save her from being lynched, the sheriff sends her off to Phoenix.
01 January 1960
Trying to shake his troubled past and start a new honest life, Floyd loses his job because of that past.
