John Ericson

Known for ActingBorn 1926-09-23Died 2020-05-03Düsseldorf, 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.Read more

Movies & web series

Out There

Primary Target

Operation Atlantis

Barbary Coast

Hog Wild

The David Niven Show

Hawkins

Airwolf

The Wonderful World of Disney

Murder, She Wrote

Knight Rider

The A-Team

Nero Wolfe

Kraft Television Theatre

Appointment with Adventure

Playhouse 90

Bonanza

The Fugitive

Honey West

The Return of Jack Slade

Bad Day at Black Rock

S.W.A.T.

The Streets of San Francisco

Bedknobs and Broomsticks

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

CHiPs

Pretty Boy Floyd

7 Faces of Dr. Lao

One Day at a Time

Ironside

The Invaders

Day of the Badman

General Electric Theater

The Chevy Mystery Show

The Ghosts of Buxley Hall

Lux Video Theatre

Wagon Train

Rhapsody

Forty Guns

The Virginian

The Philco Television Playhouse

Letter to Loretta

Shirley Temple's Storybook

The Bounty Man

The United States Steel Hour

The Student Prince

The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller

The Destructors