John Ericson

Acting

Народився 23 вересня 1926, Düsseldorf, Germany

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Ericson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Фільмографія

• 2002The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller — Brockie Drummond (archive footage)
• 1990Primary Target
• Airwolf — Dr. Karl Krüger
• 1984Final Mission — The Colonel
• Вона написала вбивство — Henderson Wheatley
• Команда А — Calvin Cutter
• Мандрівний лицар — Phillip Royce
• Nero Wolfe — Arthur Poor
• 1980The Ghosts of Buxley Hall — George Ross
• 1978The House of the Dead — Talmudge
• CHiPs — John Ericson (uncredited), Captain Burke
• 1976Crash! — Dr. Gregg Martin
• 1976Hustler Squad
• Barbary Coast — Mike McCord
• One Day at a Time — Clint Wilkens
• S.W.A.T.
• 1974Hog Wild — Morris Melborne
• 1974Murder Impossible — Murray
• Hawkins — Frank Pearson
• 1972The Bounty Man — Billy Riddle
• The Streets of San Francisco — Shelby
• 1971Bedknobs and Broomsticks — Col. Heller
• 1969Heads or Tails — William Huston / Will Hunter / 'Black Talisman'
• 1968The Bamboo Saucer — Fred Norwood
• 1968The Destructors — Dutch Holland
• Ironside — Fred
• The Invaders — Hardy Smith
• 1967The Money Jungle — Blake Heller
• 1967The Vengeance of Pancho Villa — Don Diego Alvarado / Diego Owens
• Honey West — Sam Bolt
• 1965Operation Atlantis — George Steele
• The F.B.I. — Sgt. Paul Devlin
• 19647 Faces of Dr. Lao — Ed Cunningham / Transformed Pan
• 1963I Am Semiramis — Kir
• The Fugitive — Lars
• The Virginian — Jack Bonham
• 1960Pretty Boy Floyd — Charles Arthur 'Pretty Boy' Floyd
• The Chevy Mystery Show — Ray
• 1960Under Ten Flags — Lieutenant Krüger
• Adventures in Paradise — Jeff Hazen
• Bonanza — Vince Dagen, Wade Hollister
• The David Niven Show — Twist Thompson
• 1958Day of the Badman — Sheriff Barney Wiley
• Shirley Temple's Storybook — Brom Bones, Hiawatha
• 1957Forty Guns — Brockie Drummond
• 1957Oregon Passage — Lt. Niles Ord
• The Restless Gun
• Wagon Train
• Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre — Will Ruxton, Lane Baker, Linc Mallory, Andy McCall
• 1956Heritage of Anger — Johnny Hanneman
• Playhouse 90
• 1956The Cruel Tower — Tom Kittredge
• Appointment with Adventure
• 1955Bad Day at Black Rock — Pete Wirth
• Star Stage
• The Millionaire — Sgt. Peter Barkley
• 1955The Return of Jack Slade — Jack Slade
• Climax! — William Herrick, Lindy Jackson, Cameron Lacey
• 1954Great Lady Has an Interview — Reporter (uncredited)
• 1954Green Fire — Donald Knowland
• 1954Rhapsody — James Guest
• 1954The Student Prince — Count Von Asterburg
• The Wonderful World of Disney — Morris Melborne
• General Electric Theater — Red, Wonder Boy Nick
• Letter to Loretta — Will Hadley, Roy Hendricks, Carl Stanton
• The United States Steel Hour
• Cavalcade of America — Leon Patterson, Joe Loring
• 1951It's a Big Country — Naval Ensign (uncredited)
• Out There
• Schlitz Playhouse of Stars — Gunner's Mate Eddie Younger, Eddie Markham, Paul
• 1951Teresa — Philip Cass
• Lux Video Theatre — Mike
• Studio One — Anderson
• The Philco Television Playhouse
• Kraft Television Theatre — Matt Wilson