John Ericson
Actor
Born September 23, 1926 in Düsseldorf, Germany
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).
Filmography
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
Brockie Drummond (archive footage)
Primary Target
Murder, She Wrote
Henderson Wheatley
Final Mission
The Colonel
Airwolf
Dr. Karl Krüger
The A-Team
Calvin Cutter
Knight Rider
Phillip Royce
Nero Wolfe
Arthur Poor
The Ghosts of Buxley Hall
George Ross
The House of the Dead
Talmudge
CHiPs
John Ericson (uncredited)
Crash!
Dr. Gregg Martin
Hustler Squad
One Day at a Time
Clint Wilkens
Barbary Coast
Mike McCord
S.W.A.T.
Murder Impossible
Murray
Hog Wild
Morris Melborne
Hawkins
Frank Pearson
The Bounty Man
Billy Riddle
The Streets of San Francisco
Shelby
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Col. Heller
Heads or Tails
William Huston / Will Hunter / 'Black Talisman'
The Bamboo Saucer
Fred Norwood
The Destructors
Dutch Holland
The Money Jungle
Blake Heller
The Vengeance of Pancho Villa
Don Diego Alvarado / Diego Owens
Ironside
Fred
The Invaders
Hardy Smith
Operation Atlantis
George Steele
The F.B.I.
Sgt. Paul Devlin
Honey West
Sam Bolt
7 Faces of Dr. Lao
Ed Cunningham / Transformed Pan
The Fugitive
Lars
I Am Semiramis
Kir
The Virginian
Jack Bonham
Under Ten Flags
Lieutenant Krüger
Pretty Boy Floyd
Charles Arthur 'Pretty Boy' Floyd
Adventures in Paradise
Jeff Hazen
Bonanza
Vince Dagen
The David Niven Show
Twist Thompson
Day of the Badman
Sheriff Barney Wiley
Shirley Temple's Storybook
Brom Bones
Oregon Passage
Lt. Niles Ord
The Restless Gun
Wagon Train
Forty Guns
Brockie Drummond
Heritage of Anger
Johnny Hanneman
The Cruel Tower
Tom Kittredge
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Will Ruxton
Playhouse 90
The Return of Jack Slade
Jack Slade
Star Stage
The Millionaire
Sgt. Peter Barkley
Bad Day at Black Rock
Pete Wirth
Green Fire
Donald Knowland
The Wonderful World of Disney
Morris Melborne
Climax!
William Herrick
The Student Prince
Count Von Asterburg
Rhapsody
James Guest
Great Lady Has an Interview
Reporter (uncredited)
The United States Steel Hour
Letter to Loretta
Will Hadley
General Electric Theater
Red
Cavalcade of America
It's a Big Country
Naval Ensign (uncredited)
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Gunner's Mate Eddie Younger
Teresa
Philip Cass
Studio One
Anderson
The Philco Television Playhouse
Kraft Television Theatre
Matt Wilson