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'''James | '''James Olson''' (October 8, 1930 CE―April 17, 2022 CE) was an American actor who portrayed [[Thane]] in the {{OS|Gun on Ice Planet Zero|prose=y}} two-parter, originally slated to be a movie-of-the-week before the Original Series was converted to a weekly-series. | ||
Olson was known for both his 6 ft., 3 in.<ref name=":1">{{Cite news|title=James Olson, "Promising" Young Actor|publisher=The Boston Globe|date=17 February 1957|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/34705374/james-olson/}}</ref> 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.<ref name=":1">{{Cite news|title=James Olson, "Promising" Young Actor|publisher=The Boston Globe|date=17 February 1957|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/34705374/james-olson/}}</ref> rugged stature and deep gravel-toned voice, bringing both his physical and vocal talents to radio, stage and screen throughout the decades. | ||
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His breakthrough role was in 1968's Oscar-nominated film ''Rachel, Rachel'', produced and directed by [[W:Paul Newman|Paul Newman]] and starring Newman's wife Joanne Woodward. Olson portrayed Nick Kazlik, the foil who romances and later rejects Woodward's sexually-repressed schoolteacher character.<ref>{{Cite news|title=James Olson Dies: ‘Rachel, Rachel’, ‘The Andromeda Strain’ Actor Was 91|url=https://deadline.com/2022/05/james-olson-dead-actor-obituary-rachel-rachel-andromeda-strain-1235020291/|author=Greg Evans|date=10 May 2022|publisher=Deadline.com}}</ref> | His breakthrough role was in 1968's Oscar-nominated film ''Rachel, Rachel'', produced and directed by [[W:Paul Newman|Paul Newman]] and starring Newman's wife Joanne Woodward. Olson portrayed Nick Kazlik, the foil who romances and later rejects Woodward's sexually-repressed schoolteacher character.<ref>{{Cite news|title=James Olson Dies: ‘Rachel, Rachel’, ‘The Andromeda Strain’ Actor Was 91|url=https://deadline.com/2022/05/james-olson-dead-actor-obituary-rachel-rachel-andromeda-strain-1235020291/|author=Greg Evans|date=10 May 2022|publisher=Deadline.com}}</ref> | ||
Olson first acted with [[Lorne Greene]] in two episodes of ''Bonanza'', "Sweet Annie Laurie" (1969) and "Ambush and Rio Lobo" (1972), and later with [[Richard Hatch]] on ''[[W:The Streets of San Francisco|The Streets of San Francisco]]'' in the 1976 episode "No Minor Voices," later reuniting with both actors on 1978's ''Battlestar Galactica'' for the two-parter "[[ | Olson first acted with [[Lorne Greene]] in two episodes of ''Bonanza'', "Sweet Annie Laurie" (1969) and "Ambush and Rio Lobo" (1972), and later with [[Richard Hatch]] on ''[[W:The Streets of San Francisco|The Streets of San Francisco]]'' in the 1976 episode "No Minor Voices," later reuniting with both actors on 1978's ''Battlestar Galactica'' for the two-parter "[[Gun on Ice Planet Zero]]." | ||
He later had a recurring role on [[Glen A. Larson]]'s 1979's ''[[W:B.J. and the Bear|B.J. and the Bear]]'' and ''[[W:The Misadventures of Sherrif Lobo|The Misadventures of Sherrif Lobo]],'' portraying the criminal mastermind Paul Vane over three episodes. | He later had a recurring role on [[Glen A. Larson]]'s 1979's ''[[W:B.J. and the Bear|B.J. and the Bear]]'' and ''[[W:The Misadventures of Sherrif Lobo|The Misadventures of Sherrif Lobo]],'' portraying the criminal mastermind Paul Vane over three episodes. | ||