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