Biography: James Olson |
A graduate of Northwestern University, actor James Olson did stage work in and around Chicago before his 1956 film bow in The Sharkfighters. Angular and sandy-haired, Olson was well suited to classical stage roles. In films and on television, it was... more
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Amityville II: The Possession (1982)
Tags: Haunted House Film Supernatural Horror Horror
Length: 104min
Delving into the horrific history of the infamous Long Island haunted house, this prequel to 1979's popular chiller The Amityville Horror is loosely based on the DeFeo murders but is at heart a straightforward horror-exploitation film with an Exorcist...
Tags: Thriller
Length: 100min
You'd think that Irwin Allen had exhausted the "disaster" genre by 1979. Think again: 1979 was the year that Allen put together the made-for-TV movie Cave-In. Once again, a diverse group is trapped in a perilous situation; this time they're caught in...
Cast: Lee Grant
Tags: Psychological Drama Drama Family Drama
Length: 102min
In this combination of domestic melodrama and offbeat suspense flick, an astronomer must shoulder the burden of caring for and sleeping with her mentally ill sister after their anthropologist father dies in Africa. Ellen (Lee Grant) and Cissy (Carol...
Cast: James Olson Viveca Lindfors Pamela Reed
Tags: Ensemble Film Romance Drama Americana
Length: 88min
Rachel River is a small town in Minnesota. When local "looney tune" Aileen Cole dies, the town comes to the slow realization that the reclusive Cole has in fact touched the lives of virtually every citizen--and nearly always in a positive manner. That...
Cast: Paul Newman Joanne Woodward Donald Moffat Estelle Parsons
Tags: Psychological Drama Feminist Film Drama
Length: 102min
Paul Newman made his directorial debut and Newman's wife, Joanne Woodward, stars as Rachel Cameron, a 35-year-old unmarried schoolteacher who feels as though she's wasted her life. Rachel's best friend, Calla Mackie (Estelle Parsons), invites her to...
Cast: James Cagney Milos Forman Donald O'Connor Pat O'Brien Norman Mailer
Tags: Ensemble Film Drama Period Film Americana
Length: 155min
E. L. Doctorow's novel Ragtime was a sprawling fictional account of American manners and mores in the years between 1900 and 1913. Among the mosaic of colorful factual and fictional characters in the novel were escape artist Harry Houdini and radical...
Cast: Robert Wise David Wayne Bud Westmore
Tags: Thriller Paranoid Thriller Sci-Fi Disaster Film Science Fiction
Length: 127min
The "Andromeda Strain" is a deadly extraterrestrial virus. It is brought to Earth when a research satellite crashes near a tiny Arizona town. Everyone in the community dies within days, except for a baby and an "insulated" drunkard. Recruited from...
The Groundstar Conspiracy (1972)
Cast: George Peppard
Tags: Thriller Science Fiction Action Chase Movie Spy Film
Length: 95min
Filmed in Canada, The Groundstar Conspiracy was adapted from L.P. Davies' novel -The Alien. Michael Sarrazin plays a research scientist who is the sole survivor when his secret laboratory in Vancouver is destroyed by an explosion. Assuming that...
Cast: Ben Gazzara
Tags: Drama
Length: 100min
In his film debut, Ben Gazzara repeats his stage portrayal of Jocko De Paris, a manipulative psychotic who holds a Southern military school in thrall. With the help of his flunkies, cadets Harold Knoble (Pat Hingle) and Roger Gatt (James Olson), Jocko...
Tags: Hybrid Western Action Science Fiction Crime
Length: 100min
A spaceman -- with a raygun -- for hire takes on a crooked land baron in this drama that moves Western themes into outer space. In the year 2021, Bill Kemp (James Olson), the first man to walk on Mars, is an astronaut for hire, renting his services to...
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