John Ericson

John Ericson sometimes Erickson born Joachim Alexander Ottokar Meibes September 25 1926 May 3 2020 was a GermanAmerican 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 gueststarred in 1958 in the NBC western series The Restless Gun starring John Payne He also gueststarred in the 1961 ABC crime drama Target The Corruptors In 19651966 he costarred 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 CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia