
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).
He was married twice and had two children from his first marriage to Milly Coury.
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Bedknobs and Broomsticks
1971 · as Col. Heller

Bad Day at Black Rock
1955 · as Pete Wirth

The Bamboo Saucer
1968 · as Fred Norwood

Forty Guns
1957 · as Brockie Drummond

Hog Wild
1974 · as Morris Melborne

It's a Big Country
1951 · as Naval Ensign (uncredited)

Under Ten Flags
1960 · as Lieutenant Krüger

I Am Semiramis
1963 · as Kir

7 Faces of Dr. Lao
1964 · as Ed Cunningham / Transformed Pan

The Student Prince
1954 · as Count Von Asterburg

The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
2002 · as Brockie Drummond (archive footage)

Green Fire
1954 · as Donald Knowland

Hustler Squad
1976

The Destructors
1968 · as Dutch Holland

Day of the Badman
1958 · as Sheriff Barney Wiley

The Bounty Man
1972 · as Billy Riddle

Crash!
1976 · as Dr. Gregg Martin

The House of the Dead
1978 · as Talmudge