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Acting

John Ericson

Career: Active from 1951 to 1984, busiest in 1954 with 4 main titles.

Leading roles: 22
top three billing

Average score: 59/100

Highest rated: Bad Day at Black Rock
87/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 48 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

John Ericson Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
3.4, average 5.4
Psychological
4.0, average 5.5
Cringe Humor
0.6, average 2.2
Dark Humor
1.3, average 2.8

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Moral Ambiguity 2
Character-Driven 2
Old West Setting 2
Romance 2
Action-Packed 2
Classic Western 2
Historical Setting 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

73

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2000s

1 title

The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller

as Brockie Drummond (archive footage)

1980s

7 titles · average score 65

Airwolf

62

TV show · as Dr. Karl Krüger

Murder, She Wrote

76

TV show · as Henderson Wheatley

Final Mission

47

as The Colonel

The A-Team

74

TV show · as Calvin Cutter

Knight Rider

76

TV show · as Phillip Royce

Nero Wolfe

73

TV show · as Arthur Poor

The Ghosts of Buxley Hall

48

as George Ross

1970s

12 titles · average score 57

The House of the Dead

38

as Talmudge

CHiPs

44

TV show · as John Ericson (uncredited) / Captain Burke

Crash!

41

as Dr. Gregg Martin

One Day at a Time

66

TV show · as Clint Wilkens

S.W.A.T.

69

TV show

Barbary Coast

75

TV show · as Mike McCord

Hog Wild

as Morris Melborne

Murder Impossible

as Murray

Hawkins

76

TV show · as Frank Pearson

The Bounty Man

51

as Billy Riddle

The Streets of San Francisco

48

TV show · as Shelby

Bedknobs and Broomsticks

66

as Col. Heller

1960s

17 titles · average score 63

Heads or Tails

as William Huston / Will Hunter / 'Black Talisman'

The Bamboo Saucer

40

as Fred Norwood

The Destructors

as Dutch Holland

The Vengeance of Pancho Villa

as Don Diego Alvarado / Diego Owens

The Money Jungle

as Blake Heller

Ironside

45

TV show · as Fred

Honey West

73

TV show · as Sam Bolt

Operation Atlantis

as George Steele

7 Faces of Dr. Lao

80

as Ed Cunningham / Transformed Pan

I Am Semiramis

as Kir

The Fugitive

84

TV show · as Lars

Pretty Boy Floyd

as Charles Arthur 'Pretty Boy' Floyd

1950s

33 titles · average score 66

Bonanza

73

TV show · as Wade Hollister / Vince Dagen

Day of the Badman

66

as Sheriff Barney Wiley

Forty Guns

76

as Brockie Drummond

Oregon Passage

53

as Lt. Niles Ord

Wagon Train

71

TV show

The Cruel Tower

as Tom Kittredge

Bad Day at Black Rock

87

as Pete Wirth

The Return of Jack Slade

as Jack Slade

Rhapsody

62

as James Guest

The Student Prince

62

as Count Von Asterburg

Green Fire

47

as Donald Knowland

Teresa

50

as Philip Cass

1940s

3 titles · average score 71

Studio One

65

TV show · as Anderson

The Philco Television Playhouse

TV show

Kraft Television Theatre

78

TV show · as Matt Wilson