James Olson
Acting

James Olson

Born 8 October 1930 · Evanston, Illinois, USA · Died 17 April 2022

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.

Known for

Commando
Little House on the Prairie
Columbo
The Andromeda Strain
Bonanza
Wonder Woman
Murder, She Wrote
Amityville II: The Possession
Battlestar Galactica
The Bionic Woman
Ragtime
The Streets of San Francisco
Rachel River
One Police Plaza
Commando
North Beach and Rawhide
The Parade
Cave-In!
Amityville II: The Possession
Ragtime
The Silent Lovers
Visions of Christmas Past
No Prince for My Cinderella
The Mafu Cage
The Spell
The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer
Law and Order
Someone I Touched
The Family Nobody Wanted
Strange New World
Man on the Outside
Manhunter
The Sex Symbol
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Incident on a Dark Street
The Groundstar Conspiracy
The Andromeda Strain
Wild Rovers
Paper Man
Crescendo
Moon Zero Two
Rachel, Rachel
An Enemy of the People
The Three Sisters
The Strange One
The Sharkfighters
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