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 CBSs 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 CBSs 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.
Naval Ensign (uncredited)
Film 1951
Col. Heller
Film 1971
Ed Cunningham / Transformed Pan
Film 1964
Pete Wirth
Film 1955
Kir
Film 1963
Morris Melborne
Film 1974
Tom Kittredge
Film 1956
Count Von Asterburg
Film 1954
Donald Knowland
Film 1954
Talmudge
Film 1978
James Guest
Film 1954
William Huston / Will Hunter / 'Black Talisman'
Film 1969
Don Diego Alvarado / Diego Owens
Film 1967
Philip Cass
Film 1951
Jack Slade
Film 1955
Dutch Holland
Film 1968
Brockie Drummond (archive footage)
Film 2002
Murray
Film 1974
The Colonel
Film 1984
Lt. Niles Ord
Film 1957
Film 1976
Blake Heller
Film 1967
George Steele
Film 1965
Charles Arthur 'Pretty Boy' Floyd
Film 1960
Film 1990
Reporter (uncredited)
Film 1954
Frank Pearson
Tv 1973
Tv 1975
Calvin Cutter
Tv 1983
Mike
Tv 1950
Tv 1948
Tv 1951
Tv 1955
Tv 1955
Tv 1952
William Herrick
Tv 1954
Sgt. Peter Barkley
Tv 1955
Tv 1956
Tv 1957
Will Ruxton
Tv 1956
Tv 1957
Twist Thompson
Tv 1959
Jeff Hazen
Tv 1959
Will Hadley
Tv 1953
Roy Hendricks
Tv 1953
Carl Stanton
Tv 1953
Arthur Poor
Tv 1981
Leon Patterson
Tv 1952
Joe Loring
Tv 1952
John Ericson (uncredited)
Tv 1977
Lane Baker
Tv 1956
Linc Mallory
Tv 1956
Andy McCall
Tv 1956
Ray
Tv 1960
Phillip Royce
Tv 1982
Vince Dagen
Tv 1959
Jack Bonham
Tv 1962
Dr. Karl Krüger
Tv 1984
Morris Melborne
Tv 1954
Lindy Jackson
Tv 1954
Cameron Lacey
Tv 1954
Tv 1953
Captain Burke
Tv 1977
Clint Wilkens
Tv 1975
Hardy Smith
Tv 1967
Mike McCord
Tv 1975
Henderson Wheatley
Tv 1984
Sgt. Paul Devlin
Tv 1965
Brom Bones
Tv 1958
Hiawatha
Tv 1958