James Olson
Acting
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article James Olson (actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Amityville II: The Possession
as Father Adamsky
Age 51 (now 91)
Amityville II: The Possession
as Father Adamsky
Age 51 (now 91)
The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer
as Gen. George Armstrong Custer
Age 47 (now 91)
Little House on the Prairie
as Reverend Jacob Danforth
Age 43 (now 91)
The Streets of San Francisco
as Dr. Jonas Rabb
Age 41 (now 91)
San Francisco International Airport
as Professor Theodore Tragis
Age 40 (now 91)
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as General George A. Custer
Age 21 (now 91)
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