Background
Olson was born in Evanston, Illinois, and graduated from Northwestern University.
Olson was born in Evanston, Illinois, and graduated from Northwestern University.
Northwestern University.
He performed stage work in and around Chicago before his 1956 film debut in The Sharkfighters. Olson made numerous stage, feature film and television appearances from the mid-1950s until the early 1990s. Olson"s television appearances include guest roles on scores of shows, including episodes of Kraft Television Theatre, Murder, She Wrote, Little House on the Prairie, Hawaii Five-O, Battlestar Galactica, Lou Grant, The Bionic Woman, Wonder Woman, Mannix, Bonanza, Have Gun-Will Travel, Marcus Welby, Doctor of Medicine, Police Woman, Barnaby Jones, The New Land,Columbo, and Maude.