John Ericson

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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.

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2002
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
Movie Brockie Drummond (archive footage)
1990
Primary Target
Movie
1984
Murder, She Wrote
TV show Henderson Wheatley
1984
Final Mission
Movie The Colonel
1984
Airwolf
TV show Dr. Karl Krüger
1983
The A-Team
TV show Calvin Cutter
1982
Knight Rider
TV show Phillip Royce
1981
Nero Wolfe
TV show Arthur Poor
1980
The Ghosts of Buxley Hall
Movie George Ross
1978
The House of the Dead
Movie Talmudge
1977
CHiPs
TV show John Ericson (uncredited)
1976
Crash!
Movie Dr. Gregg Martin
1976
Hustler Squad
Movie
1975
One Day at a Time
TV show Clint Wilkens
1975
Barbary Coast
TV show Mike McCord
1975
S.W.A.T.
TV show