
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.

Commando
1985 · as Major General Franklin Kirby

The Mafu Cage
1978 · as David

The Andromeda Strain
1971 · as Dr. Mark Hall

Amityville II: The Possession
1982 · as Father Adamsky

Ragtime
1981 · as Father

Manhunter
1974 · as Walt Hovis

The Stalking Moon
1968 · as Cavalry Officer (uncredited)

Rachel, Rachel
1968 · as Nick Kazlik

Wild Rovers
1971 · as Joe Billings

Moon Zero Two
1969 · as Capt. William H. Kemp

Someone I Touched
1975 · as Sam Hyatt

The Sex Symbol
1974 · as Calvin Bernard

The Strange One
1957 · as Roger Gatt

The Three Sisters
1966 · as Baron Tuzenbach

Paper Man
1971 · as Art Fletcher

The Spell
1977 · as Glenn

Rachel River
1989 · as Jack Canon

The Groundstar Conspiracy
1972 · as Senator Stanton