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Joachim Alexander Ottokar Meibes
John Erickson
John Ericson
Acting
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 include…
Known For
Filmography
Movies
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
as Brockie Drummond (archive footage)
Primary Target
Final Mission
as The Colonel
The Ghosts of Buxley Hall
as George Ross
The House of the Dead
as Talmudge
Crash!
as Dr. Gregg Martin
Hustler Squad
Hog Wild
as Morris Melborne
Murder Impossible
as Murray
The Bounty Man
as Billy Riddle
TV Shows
Murder, She Wrote
as Henderson Wheatley · 1 ep.
Airwolf
as Dr. Karl Krüger · 1 ep.
The A-Team
as Calvin Cutter · 1 ep.
Knight Rider
as Phillip Royce · 1 ep.
Nero Wolfe
as Arthur Poor · 1 ep.
CHiPs
as Captain Burke · 1 ep.
One Day at a Time
as Clint Wilkens · 1 ep.
S.W.A.T.
1 ep.
Barbary Coast
as Mike McCord · 1 ep.
Hawkins
as Frank Pearson · 1 ep.