Person Details

Birthday: 1926-09-23 23:42:56

Death: 2020-05-03 23:42:56

Aliases: Joachim Alexander Ottokar Meibes

Gender: Male

Place of birth: Düsseldorf, Germany

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Movie Involvements: 27

TV Involvements: 31


Most Famous Work

Biography

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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.

Most Famous Work

The A-Team
Average
7

The A-Team

(1983) Calvin Cutter
Knight Rider
Average
8

Knight Rider

(1982) Phillip Royce
The Fugitive
Average
7

The Fugitive

(1963) Lars
Bonanza
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8

Bonanza

(1959) Vince Dagen
Murder, She Wrote
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8

Murder, She Wrote

(1984) Henderson Wheatley
Airwolf
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7

Airwolf

(1984) Dr. Karl Krüger
Lux Video Theatre
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3

Lux Video Theatre

(1950) Mike
Ironside
Average
7

Ironside

(1967) Fred

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2002 Brockie Drummond (archive footage)
1990 N/A
1984 Henderson Wheatley
The Colonel
Dr. Karl Krüger
1983 Calvin Cutter
1982 Phillip Royce
1981 Arthur Poor
1980 George Ross
1978 Talmudge
1977 John Ericson (uncredited)
Captain Burke
1976 Dr. Gregg Martin
N/A
1975 Mike McCord
N/A
1974 Murray
Morris Melborne
1973 Frank Pearson
1972 Billy Riddle
1971 Col. Heller
1969 William Huston / Will Hunter / 'Black Talisman'
1968 Fred Norwood
Dutch Holland
1967 Blake Heller
Don Diego Alvarado / Diego Owens
Fred
Hardy Smith
1965 George Steele
Sam Bolt
1964 Ed Cunningham / Transformed Pan
1963 Lars
Kir
1960 Lieutenant Krüger
Ray
Charles Arthur 'Pretty Boy' Floyd
1959 Jeff Hazen
Vince Dagen
Twist Thompson
1958 Sheriff Barney Wiley
N/A
1957 Lt. Niles Ord
N/A
N/A
Brockie Drummond
1956 Tom Kittredge
Andy McCall
Linc Mallory
Lane Baker
Will Ruxton
N/A
1955 Jack Slade
N/A
N/A
Sgt. Peter Barkley
Pete Wirth
1954 Donald Knowland
Cameron Lacey
William Herrick
Lindy Jackson
Count Von Asterburg
James Guest
1953 Will Hadley
Roy Hendricks
Carl Stanton
Wonder Boy Nick
Red
1952 N/A
Joe Loring
Leon Patterson
1951 Naval Ensign (uncredited)
N/A
Gunner's Mate Eddie Younger
Eddie Markham
N/A
Paul
Philip Cass
1950 Mike
1948 N/A
Year Character Movie/Tv

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