Throughout his career, he appeared in numerous television series, including Have Gun - Will Travel, Mannix, Hawaii Five-O, McCloud, Columbo, and Little House on the Prairie. Army as a Military Police officer from 1952 to 1954 CE, he began his career with his debut in the 1956 film The Sharkfighters. During his childhood, he recorded radio jingles in Chicago and made his first stage debut (at age 12) in the Evanston Children's Theater production Hans Brinkler and the Silver Skates, later transitioning in theater fully during his undergraduate period at Northwestern.įollowing his service in the U.S. Biographical Notes īorn in Evanston, Illinois, U.S.A., Olson graduated from Evanston Township High School and Northwestern University.

Olson is better known to most audiences for his role in 1971 CE's genre film The Andromeda Strain and his various guest appearances in television, ranging from Playhouse 90 1960) to Mannix (1969 & 1974) to Bionic Woman (1977), up to his final on-screen role in 1990's Murder, She Wrote. rugged stature and deep gravel-toned voice, bringing both his physical and vocal talents to radio, stage and screen throughout the decades. Olson was known for both his 6 ft., 3 in. Olson (OctoCE―ApCE) was an American actor who portrayed Thane in the Original Series' ' The Gun on Ice Planet Zero' two-parter, originally slated to be a movie-of-the-week before the Original Series was converted to a weekly-series. The Duke apologizes to all he has offended while in Virginia City and heads west to fight Heenan.James R. The Duke and his brother-manager reconcile in the humility of defeat, then learn that the Benicia Boy will accept the proposed bout, but only the Duke comes to San Francisco. Infuriated by all this, Hoss Cartwright himself challenges the Duke, and knocks him out in the fourth round of a bare-knuckle fight refereed by Sheriff Roy Coffee.

When the manager comes to Marge's rescue, he too is beaten up by the Duke (who, it turns out, is the manager's brother). While the Cartwrights wait to see if Heenan will actually take the bout and come from San Francisco, the Duke pursues Marge and assaults her when she rebuffs him. is adored by saloon girl Marge, but he has been too shy to return her affections. gets pulverized by the Duke in a bar-fight.

The Cartwrights challenge an arrogant and cruel British prizefighter, the Duke, and his alcoholic manager to a bout with John Heenan (the Benicia Boy), after the Cartwrights' meek friend J.D.

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