James Olson
Actor
Born October 8, 1930 in Evanston, Illinois, USA
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.
Filmography
The Family Man
Rachel River
Jack Canon
Jake and the Fatman
One Police Plaza
Whitney Zangline
North Beach and Rawhide
Bill Cassidy
Commando
Major General Franklin Kirby
Murder, She Wrote
Clarence La Rue
The Parade
Andy Janacek
Cave-In!
Tom Arlen
Matt Houston
Amityville II: The Possession
Father Adamsky
American Playhouse
Jack Canon
Ragtime
Father
The Silent Lovers
Victor Seastrom
Visions of Christmas Past
Battlestar Galactica
Thane
No Prince for My Cinderella
Burt Williams
The Runaways
The Mafu Cage
David
Project U.F.O.
The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer
Gen. George Armstrong Custer
The Spell
Glenn
Law and Order
Insp. Ed Shea
The Bionic Woman
Wonder Woman
Wotan
Strange New World
Surgeon
Man on the Outside
Gerald Griffin
Someone I Touched
Sam Hyatt
The Family Nobody Wanted
Carl Doss
The Sex Symbol
Calvin Bernard
Police Woman
Harry O
Little House on the Prairie
Reverend Jacob Danforth
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
McShane
Manhunter
Walt Hovis
Police Story
Barnaby Jones
Randall Stone
Incident on a Dark Street
Joe Dubbs
Kung Fu
Damion
The Streets of San Francisco
Maude
Sen. Bob Myers
The Rookies
The Groundstar Conspiracy
Senator Stanton
Paper Man
Art Fletcher
McMillan & Wife
W.T. Knox
Columbo
Paul Rifkin
Cannon
Wild Rovers
Joe Billings
The Andromeda Strain
Dr. Mark Hall
San Francisco International Airport
Professor Theodore Tragis
Crescendo
Georges Ryman / Jacques Ryman
McCloud
Moon Zero Two
Capt. William H. Kemp
Medical Center
Dave Toland
The Stalking Moon
Cavalry Officer (uncredited)
Lancer
Hawaii Five-O
Mariss
Rachel, Rachel
Nick Kazlik
Mannix
Ironside
An Enemy of the People
The Three Sisters
Baron Tuzenbach
The F.B.I.
Sheriff Bill Temple
Route 66
Bonanza
Vance
Have Gun, Will Travel
The Strange One
Roger Gatt
The Sharkfighters
Ens. Harold Duncan
Gunsmoke
Bede Stalcup
Hallmark Hall of Fame
General George A. Custer
Robert Montgomery Presents
Capt. Dicer