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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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John Ericson Biography / Wiki
| Name | John Ericson |
| Also Know | Joachim Alexander Ottokar Meibes |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Düsseldorf, Germany |
| Date of Birth | 1926-09-23 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 93 |
| Deathday | 2020-05-03 |
John Ericson Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| The Cruel Tower | Tom Kittredge | 1956-10-28 | The story of a bunch of hard-drinking steeplejacks…. |
| The House of the Dead | Talmudge | 1978-11-22 | When a philandering husband accidentally finds himself lost during a rainstorm, he’s taken in by an elderly mortician and is forced to learn the gha… |
| Heads or Tails | William Huston / Will Hunter / ‘Black Talisman’ | 1969-06-04 | Shanda is charged with the murder of the banker, Burton and to save her from being lynched, the sheriff sends her off to Phoenix. During the trip the … |
| The Vengeance of Pancho Villa | Don Diego Alvarado / Diego Owens | 1967-09-12 | During the Mexican Revolution, Pancho Villa is wounded and left his large treasure in gold back in the city of Colón. He is forced to establish an al… |
| The Return of Jack Slade | Jack Slade | 1955-10-09 | To redeem his father’s wrongdoings, Ericson joins the law to fight outlaws…. |
| Hustler Squad | 1976-05-07 | World War II: Allied Command learns that in 60 days three Japanese generals and an admiral party at a bordello on a tiny Philippine island. It’s forti… | |
| The Money Jungle | Blake Heller | 1967-12-15 | When four geologists who form a combine of five industrial companies turn up dead, the race is on to determine whether the culprit is a group of high-… |
| Operation Atlantis | George Steele | 1965-10-21 | An American agent discovers that the Red Chinese have built a secret atomic city from which they will attempt to invade America…. |
| Oregon Passage | Lt. Niles Ord | 1957-12-29 | A cavalry lieutenant becomes a hated enemy of a Shoshone chief, Black Eagle, when he rescues an Indian maid from a ceremonial camp in this action-pack… |
| Pretty Boy Floyd | Charles Arthur ‘Pretty Boy’ Floyd | 1960-01-01 | Trying to shake his troubled past and start a new honest life, Floyd loses his job because of that past. With nowhere to go but back home in Oklahoma … |
| The Bamboo Saucer | Fred Norwood | 1968-10-23 | A flying saucer hidden in a Red Chinese peasant village is sought by teams from the United States and U.S.S.R. On finding it, they band together to ex… |
| I Am Semiramis | Kir | 1963-03-22 | Semiramis, a powerful and beautiful Assyrian queen, oversees the construction of the luxurious city of Babylon. She falls in love with Kir, a fallen p… |
| Teresa | Philip Cass | 1951-04-05 | An Italian war bride has problems dealing with her husband’s possessive mother…. |
| Murder Impossible | Murray | 1974-03-26 | A scientist is murdered and his new invention is stolen and held for ransom…. |
| The Student Prince | Count Von Asterburg | 1954-06-15 | A prince has a romance with a barmaid before he must give up personal happiness for duty…. |
| Rhapsody | James Guest | 1954-04-16 | A rich, young beauty, Louise Durant, follows the man she loves and hopes to marry to Zurich where he studies violin at the conservatory. A piano stude… |
| Crash! | Dr. Gregg Martin | 1976-12-24 | Jealous invalid husband tries to kill sexy blond wife, who uses occult powers and devices to try to kill him…. |
| The Destructors | Dutch Holland | 1968-05-03 | Foreign agents are after a substance called “laser rubies” that can power a killer laser beam. Government agents are dispatched to protect the rubies … |
| Day of the Badman | Sheriff Barney Wiley | 1958-01-29 | Judge Jim Scott must contend with the vicious relatives of a murderer he’s about to sentence…and his unfaithful fiancee…. |
| The Bounty Man | Billy Riddle | 1972-10-31 | Kinkaid is a rugged, hard-driving bounty hunter, determined to find outlaw Billy Riddle. He tracks Billy, takes him captive, and starts the long trek … |
| 7 Faces of Dr. Lao | Ed Cunningham / Transformed Pan | 1964-03-18 | An old Chinese man rides into the town of Abalone, Arizona and changes it forever, as the citizens see themselves reflected in the mirror of Lao’s mys… |
| Forty Guns | Brockie Drummond | 1957-09-10 | An authoritarian rancher rules an Arizona county with her private posse of hired guns. When a new Marshall arrives to set things straight, the cattle … |
| Green Fire | Donald Knowland | 1954-12-29 | In Colombia, mining engineer Rian Mitchell discovers Carrero, the lost emerald mine of the Conquistadors, but has to contend with notorious local band… |
| Under Ten Flags | Lieutenant Krüger | 1960-09-15 | “Under Ten Flags” is a WWII movie loosely based on the true story of the German navy commerce raider Atlantis, a converted Auxilliary Cruiser, and he… |
| Bedknobs and Broomsticks | Col. Heller | 1971-10-07 | Three children evacuated from London during World War II are forced to stay with an eccentric spinster (Eglantine Price). The children’s initial fears… |
| Primary Target | 1990-07-18 | A team of Vietnam vets, who now work as mercenaries, faces off against their former wartime comrade turned warlord, who’s kidnapped the wife of a US d… | |
| Bad Day at Black Rock | Pete Wirth | 1955-01-13 | One-armed war veteran John J. Macreedy steps off a train at the sleepy little town of Black Rock. Once there, he begins to unravel a web of lies, sec… |
| The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller | Brockie Drummond (archive footage) | 2002-07-02 | Samuel Fuller discusses his career as a filmmaker, illustrated by plenty of clips…. |
| It’s a Big Country | Naval Ensign (uncredited) | 1951-11-20 | Comprised of eight unrelated episodes of inconsistent quality, this anthology piece of American propaganda features some of MGM Studios’ best director… |
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