1926-09-23 Düsseldorf, 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.
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The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller | Brockie Drummond (archive footage) | 2002-07-02 |
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Primary Target | 1990-07-18 | |
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Final Mission | The Colonel | 1984-07-25 |
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The Ghosts of Buxley Hall | George Ross | 1980-12-21 |
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The House of the Dead | Talmudge | 1978-11-22 |
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Kumander Agimat | 1976-05-07 | |
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Crash! | Dr. Gregg Martin | 1976-12-24 |
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Hog Wild | Morris Melborne | 1974-01-20 |
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Murder Impossible | Murray | 1974-03-26 |
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The Bounty Man | Billy Riddle | 1972-10-31 |
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Bedknobs and Broomsticks | Col. Heller | 1971-10-07 |
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Testa o croce | William Huston / Will Hunter / 'Black Talisman' | 1969-06-04 |
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The Bamboo Saucer | Fred Norwood | 1968-10-23 |
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The Destructors | Dutch Holland | 1968-05-03 |
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The Money Jungle | Blake Heller | 1967-12-15 |
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Los siete de Pancho Villa | Don Diego Alvarado / Diego Owens | 1967-09-12 |
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Agente S 03: Operazione Atlantide | George Steele | 1965-10-21 |
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7 Faces of Dr. Lao | Ed Cunningham / Transformed Pan | 1964-03-18 |
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Io Semiramide | Kir | 1963-03-22 |
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Pretty Boy Floyd | Charles Arthur 'Pretty Boy' Floyd | 1960-01-01 |
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Sotto dieci bandiere | Lieutenant Krüger | 1960-09-15 |
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Day of the Badman | Sheriff Barney Wiley | 1958-01-29 |
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Forty Guns | Brockie Drummond | 1957-09-10 |
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Oregon Passage | Lt. Niles Ord | 1957-12-29 |
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The Cruel Tower | Tom Kittredge | 1956-10-28 |
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The Return of Jack Slade | Jack Slade | 1955-10-09 |
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Bad Day at Black Rock | Pete Wirth | 1955-01-13 |
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Rhapsody | James Guest | 1954-04-16 |
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The Student Prince | Count Von Asterburg | 1954-06-15 |
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Green Fire | Donald Knowland | 1954-12-29 |
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Teresa | Philip Cass | 1951-04-05 |
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It's a Big Country | Naval Ensign (uncredited) | 1951-11-20 |
