Throughout his career, he appeared in numerous television series, including Have Gun - Will Travel, Mannix, Hawaii Five-O, McCloud, Columbo, and Little House on the Prairie.

Army as a Military Police officer from 1952 to 1954 CE, he began his career with his debut in the 1956 film The Sharkfighters. During his childhood, he recorded radio jingles in Chicago and made his first stage debut (at age 12) in the Evanston Children's Theater production Hans Brinkler and the Silver Skates, later transitioning in theater fully during his undergraduate period at Northwestern.įollowing his service in the U.S. Biographical Notes īorn in Evanston, Illinois, U.S.A., Olson graduated from Evanston Township High School and Northwestern University. Olson is better known to most audiences for his role in 1971 CE's genre film The Andromeda Strain and his various guest appearances in television, ranging from Playhouse 90 1960) to Mannix (1969 & 1974) to Bionic Woman (1977), up to his final on-screen role in 1990's Murder, She Wrote. rugged stature and deep gravel-toned voice, bringing both his physical and vocal talents to radio, stage and screen throughout the decades. Olson was known for both his 6 ft., 3 in. Olson (OctoCE―ApCE) was an American actor who portrayed Thane in the Original Series' ' The Gun on Ice Planet Zero' two-parter, originally slated to be a movie-of-the-week before the Original Series was converted to a weekly-series.

The opening credits would alternate the order among the four stars.James R. Greene, Roberts, Blocker, and Landon were billed equally. The family's cook was the Chinese immigrant Hop Sing (Victor Sen Yung). Via exposition (Bonanza, 'Rose For Lotta', premiere September 12, 1959) and flashback episodes, each wife was accorded a different ethnicity: English (Bonanza, 'Elizabeth My Love' episode #65) Swedish (Bonanza, 'Inger My Love', episode #95) and French Creole (Bonanza, 'Marie My Love', episode #120) respectively. He had three sons, each by a different wife: the eldest was the urbane architect 'Adam Cartwright' (Pernell Roberts) who built the ranch house the second was the warm and lovable giant Eric 'Hoss' Cartwright (Dan Blocker) and the youngest was the hotheaded and impetuous Joseph or 'Little Joe' (Michael Landon).

The show chronicles the weekly adventures of the Cartwright family, headed by the thrice-widowed patriarch 'Ben Cartwright' (Lorne Greene).

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