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John Ericson
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Film & TV
Düsseldorf, Germany
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.…
Known for
- The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller — Brockie Drummond (archive footage)2002
- Primary Target1990
- Final Mission — The Colonel1984
- Airwolf — Dr. Karl Krüger1984
- Murder, She Wrote — Henderson Wheatley1984
- The A-Team — Calvin Cutter1983
- Knight Rider — Phillip Royce1982
- Nero Wolfe — Arthur Poor1981
- The Ghosts of Buxley Hall — George Ross1980
- The House of the Dead — Talmudge1978
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- John
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Weimar Republic
- Place of birth
- Düsseldorf
- Place of death
- Santa Fe
- Occupation
- stage actor
- Educated at
- American Academy of Dramatic Arts
- Languages spoken
- German
- Native language
- English language
- Genre
- Western
- Image
- John Ericson.jpg
- Number of children
- 2
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- Commons category
- John Ericson
- start of work period
- 1950-00-00
- date of death
- 2020-05-03
- cause of death
- pneumonia
- manner of death
- natural causes
- name in native language
- John Ericson
- birth name
- Joachim Alexander Ottokar Meibes
- end of work period
- 2008-00-00
- date of birth
- 1926-09-25
- writing language
- English language
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