Acting credits
72
Prolific
Very extensive acting filmography.
Actor
John Ericson
Acting
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Movies: 34Series: 38
TMDB ID: 41231
IMDb ID: nm0259152
Known for: Acting
Born: September 23, 1926
Died: May 3, 2020
Age: 93
Place of birth: Düsseldorf, Germany
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1947 - 2002
Years active: 56
Average TMDB rating: 6.78
Wikidata: Q919876
Also known as
Joachim Alexander Ottokar Meibes • John Erickson
Biography
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.
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Movies
Movie credits linked with John Ericson.
5.8
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
as Brockie Drummond (archive footage)
2002 Movie
Primary Target
1990 Movie
4.0
Final Mission
as The Colonel
1984 Movie
6.3
The Ghosts of Buxley Hall
as George Ross
1980 Movie
4.7
The House of the Dead
as Talmudge
1978 Movie
5.3
Crash!
as Dr. Gregg Martin
1976 Movie
4.0
Hustler Squad
1976 Movie
Murder Impossible
as Murray
1974 Movie
Hog Wild
as Morris Melborne
1974 Movie
5.5
The Bounty Man
as Billy Riddle
1972 Movie
7.0
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
as Col. Heller
1971 Movie
4.9
Heads or Tails
as William Huston / Will Hunter / 'Black Talisman'
1969 Movie
4.9
The Bamboo Saucer
as Fred Norwood
1968 Movie
5.2
The Destructors
as Dutch Holland
1968 Movie
5.0
The Money Jungle
as Blake Heller
1967 Movie
4.8
The Vengeance of Pancho Villa
as Don Diego Alvarado / Diego Owens
1967 Movie
Operation Atlantis
as George Steele
1965 Movie
6.9
7 Faces of Dr. Lao
as Ed Cunningham / Transformed Pan
1964 Movie
4.5
I Am Semiramis
as Kir
1963 Movie
5.4
Under Ten Flags
as Lieutenant Krüger
1960 Movie
6.3
Pretty Boy Floyd
as Charles Arthur 'Pretty Boy' Floyd
1960 Movie
6.5
Day of the Badman
as Sheriff Barney Wiley
1958 Movie
4.0
Oregon Passage
as Lt. Niles Ord
1957 Movie
6.6
Forty Guns
as Brockie Drummond
1957 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with John Ericson.
7.5
Murder, She Wrote
as Henderson Wheatley • 1 eps
1984 Series
7.6
Airwolf
as Dr. Karl Krüger • 1 eps
1984 Series
7.5
The A-Team
as Calvin Cutter • 1 eps
1983 Series
7.5
Knight Rider
as Phillip Royce • 1 eps
1982 Series
7.4
Nero Wolfe
as Arthur Poor • 1 eps
1981 Series
6.8
CHiPs
as John Ericson (uncredited) • 1 eps
1977 Series
6.7
One Day at a Time
as Clint Wilkens • 1 eps
1975 Series
7.5
Barbary Coast
as Mike McCord • 1 eps
1975 Series
7.0
S.W.A.T.
1 eps
1975 Series
7.2
Hawkins
as Frank Pearson • 1 eps
1973 Series
7.0
The Streets of San Francisco
as Shelby • 1 eps
1972 Series
6.8
Ironside
as Fred • 1 eps
1967 Series
6.8
The Invaders
as Hardy Smith • 1 eps
1967 Series
5.4
The F.B.I.
as Sgt. Paul Devlin • 1 eps
1965 Series
7.0
Honey West
as Sam Bolt • 30 eps
1965 Series
7.2
The Fugitive
as Lars • 1 eps
1963 Series
6.4
The Virginian
as Jack Bonham • 1 eps
1962 Series
6.3
The Chevy Mystery Show
as Ray • 1 eps
1960 Series
5.7
Adventures in Paradise
as Jeff Hazen • 1 eps
1959 Series
7.5
Bonanza
as Vince Dagen • 1 eps
1959 Series
The David Niven Show
as Twist Thompson • 1 eps
1959 Series
6.2
Shirley Temple's Storybook
as Brom Bones • 1 eps
1958 Series
3.0
The Restless Gun
2 eps
1957 Series
6.6
Wagon Train
1 eps
1957 Series