John EricsonFilmography

Final Mission

Actors: Richard Young, John Ericson, Christine L. Tudor, Jason Ross, John Dresden

Synopsis: Revenge and violence are the key motifs in this action film by Philippine director {$Cirio Santiago). Vince (Richard Young) is a Vietnam vet who has been a shade too brutal in his handling of some petty thieves. His actions rankle the murderous minds of the thieves, and they exact revenge by Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Joshua Peabody Died Here...Possibly.

Synopsis: Over the protests of several local residents, shady tycoon Henderson Wheatley (John Ericson) intends to build a high-rise hotel in Cabot Cove. During excavation, a set of bones comes to surface, supposedly belonging to Revolutionary war hero Joshua Peabody. Almost immediately, those who oppose the Read More

The A-Team: Till Death Do Us Part

Synopsis: It's off to Wilson County, Texas for the A-Team, at the behest of young businesswoman Jackie Taylor (Janice Heiden). It seems that Jackie is being forced to marry Calvin Cutter (John Ericson), her late husband's former partner--and the man whom Jackie suspects of murdering her dad. In order to Read More

Hog Wild

Actors: Michael Biehn, Patti D'Arbanville, Tony Rosato, Angelo Rizacos, Martin Doyle

Synopsis: In this uninspired attempt at teen comedy, Tim (Michael Biehn) has returned home in disgrace as far as his dad is concerned -- he was expelled from his military academy. The next thing Tim knows he is fighting off a gang of bikers that are terrorizing the high schoolers, and worse yet, he is Read More

Zone of the Dead

Synopsis: In this horror film, a sinister mortician has other plans for his customers besides the customary burial. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

House of the Dead

Actors: John Ericson, Charles Aidman, Bernard Fox, Ivor Francis

Synopsis: This low-budget horror anthology from Oklahoma presents a quartet of eerie tales, told by a strange mortician (Ivor Francis) to a young man on the run from his lover's irate husband (John Ericson). The tales involve a crotchety old woman whose hatred of children sparks an attack from a group of Read More

Crash!

Synopsis: In this horror move, a husband sends a demonic antique car after his wife. She uses her own black magic to fight back. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Hustler Squad

Synopsis: A handful of women learn how to serve up both sex and violence in this wartime action drama. During World War II, American officer Maj. Stony Stonewall (John Erickson) has been given a difficult assignment -- military intelligence has discovered a number of top Japanese leaders will be meeting on Read More

The Streets of San Francisco: Mister Nobody

Synopsis: In one of his last TV roles, Sam Jaffe guest stars as Alex Zubatuk, a retired cobbler. When Zubatuk comes forth and confesses to a killing, detectives Stone (Karl Malden) and Keller (Michael Douglas) are reluctant to take the old man at face value. And for good reason: what the viewer knows (but Read More

The F.B.I.: The Wedding Gift

Synopsis: Having portrayed a career criminal who embarked upon a robbery spree for the sake of her young son in an earlier FBI episode, Penny Fuller essays a similar role herein as female crime boss Della Marot. In an abrupt about-face, Della informs her fiancee that she's going to quit the rackets in order Read More

The Bounty Man

Actors: Richard Basehart, John Ericson, Clint Walker

Synopsis: The Bounty Man is Clint Walker, back in the saddle some nine years after the cancellation of his TV series Cheyenne. Walker is hired to bring in his quarry dead or alive, and in the past has had no qualms about choosing the latter option. Now he is in competition with hard-bitten Richard Basehart Read More

Bedknobs and Broomsticks

Actors: Ian Weighall, Angela Lansbury, David Tomlinson, Roddy McDowall, Sam Jaffe, John Ericson

Synopsis: Bedknobs and Broomsticks was produced several years after Walt Disney's death and released in the fall of 1971. As it turned out, Bedknobs was frequently compared to Mary Poppins -- probably thanks to several striking similarities between the two productions, notably the presence in the cast of David Tomlinson Read More

Ironside: Beware the Wiles of the Stranger

Synopsis: Tina Louise guest stars as Candy, a pretty cocktail waitress who hitches a ride from Ironside's aide Mark (Don Mitchell). What Mark doesn't know is that Candy is the accomplice of a wanted criminal, and that she is looking for a fall guy to take the rap for a recent robbery. The trouble really Read More

The Destructors

Actors: Richard Egan, Patricia Owens, John Ericson, Michael Ansara, Joan Blackman

Synopsis: National Intelligence Agent Dan Street (Richard Egan) is on the trail of some stolen laser rubies. It is assumed the agents will come after the raygun itself for their evil purposes. Count Romano (Michael Ansara) is the swimsuit-import mogul who tries to keep his head from going under while Read More

The Money Jungle

Actors: John Ericson, Lola Albright, Leslie Parrish, Nehemiah Persoff, Charles Drake

Synopsis: The Money Jungle is an innovative mystery concerning some greedy oil companies in competition to secure off-shore drilling rights. Detective Blake Heller (John Ericson) is the hard drinking sleuth hired by the oil companies to try and keep the proceedings above board. He contends with a group that Read More

The F.B.I.: The Phone Call

Synopsis: The FBI launches a search for Curtis Stone (Roy Poole), a sleazy extortionist who preys upon the families of servicemen. There is someone else anxious to catch up with Stone: Sgt. Paul Devlin (John Ericson), whose wife committed suicide while he was in Vietnam. Holding Stone responsible for his Read More

The Bamboo Saucer

Actors: Dan Duryea, John Ericson, Lois Nettleton, Bob Hastings, Vincent Beck

Synopsis: A veteran cast gives the 1968 cheapie The Bamboo Saucer what little credibility it has. In his last role, Dan Duryea plays the head man of an expeditionary force in search of a missing UFO. Since the craft was last sighted in the mountains of Red China, the search takes on political significance. Duryea Read More

Bonanza: Journey to Terror

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, John Ericson

Synopsis: Visiting the Blackwell farm, Joe Cartwright is aghast to learn that his friend Tom Blackwell (Jason Evers) has turned to crime. Enter a gang of outlaws, who hold Joe, Blackwell's wife Ellie Sue (Elizabeth Rogers) and the couple's son captive, thereby forcing Mrs. Blackwell to tend to the injuries Read More

The Vengeance of Pancho Villa

Agente S O 3 Operazione Atlantide

Operation Atlantis

Synopsis: Operation Atlantis is the American title for this obscure Italian spy flick. John Ericson is the token American "name" star, playing a Bond-like secret agent. Ericson is sent to Africa to investigate recent sabotage attacks. He runs up against a modern-day Captain Nemo, operating from an Read More

The Fugitive: Brass Ring

Synopsis: While posing as "Ben Horton", Kimble (David Janssen) is hired by Norma Sessions (Angie Dickinson) to look after her brother Leslie (Robert Duvall), a reclusive, embittered invalid. Someone getting through to the truculent Leslie, Kimble wins the man's trust and friendship. Meanwhile, Norma and her Read More

Seven Faces of Dr. Lao

Actors: Tony Randall, Barbara Eden, Arthur O'Connell, John Ericson, Kevin Tate

Synopsis: Tony Randall has the showcase of a lifetime in the marvelous George Pal production The Seven Faces of Dr. Lao. We first see Randall as Dr. Lao, an enigmatic Chinese medicine-show impresario. The doctor brings his travelling show into the frontier town of Abalone, which is chafing under the Read More

I Am Semiramis

Slave Girl of Babylon

Sotto Dieci Bandiere

Actors: Van Heflin, Charles Laughton, Mylène Demongeot, John Ericson, Cecil Parker

Synopsis: Under Ten Flags is a fact-based British maritime epic set during World War II. Allied ships are being victimized by a German surface raider, which sails under friendly flags until moving in for the kill. Since so many nationalities were involved in making this film (both before and behind the Read More

Pretty Boy Floyd

Actors: John Ericson, Barry Newman, Joan Harvey, Carl York, Phil Kenneally

Synopsis: The short but bloody career of one of the most infamous outlaws of the 1930s is chronicled in this drama. Charles Arthur Floyd (John Ericson) finds work on an oil rig after serving time for armed robbery, but when he becomes involved with a married woman, her husband swears revenge. Floyd's boss Read More

Bonanza: Breed of Violence

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, John Ericson

Synopsis: To escape her strict and oppressive father Sheriff Kincaid (Val Avery), headstrong Dolly (Myrna Fahey) rebelliously courts disaster by associating with disreputable men. On this occasion, Dolly skips town with rakishly charming Vince Dagen (John Ericson), blissfully unaware that Vince is an Read More

Oregon Passage

Actors: John Ericson, Lola Albright, Toni Gerry, Edward Platt, Judith Ames

Synopsis: Oregon Passage proves that even out west, the road to Hell is paved with good intentions. John Ericson plays idealistic young Cavalry lieutenant Niles Ord, who hopes to peacefully capture renegade Shoshone chief Black Eagle (H. M. Wynant). Ord is convinced that his knowledge and understanding of Read More

Day of the Bad Man

Actors: Fred MacMurray, Joan Weldon, John Ericson, Robert Middleton, Marie Windsor

Synopsis: Fred MacMurray is the beleagured hero of the Universal western Day of the Badman. MacMurray plays circuit judge Jim Scott, who rides into town to pass sentence on convicted killer Jake Hayes (Lee Van Cleef). Unfortunately, it doesn't look as though Hayes will stay in jail long enough for the Read More

Forty Guns

Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan, Dean Jagger, John Ericson, Gene Barry

Synopsis: Cult hero Samuel Fuller wrote and directed this visually inventive western, which didn't fare well with American audiences but earned a potent reputation with European cineastes. Jessica Drummond (Barbara Stanwyck) is a despotic landowner who, with a posse of hired guns, has made herself the law Read More

Playhouse 90: Heritage of Anger

Synopsis: The seventh live presentation of the CBS drama anthology Playhouse 90 was "Heritage of Anger", written especially for television by Harold Jack Bloom. Ralph Bellamy heads the cast, as ruthless millionaire industrialist Eddie Hannemann. Naturally expecting his two sons to follow in his footsteps Read More

The Cruel Tower

Actors: John Ericson, Mari Blanchard, Charles McGraw, Steve Brodie, Peter Whitney

Synopsis: The Cruel Tower is a dog-and-pony variation of a well-worn triangle plot. John Ericson is a handsome young steeplejack, working side-by-side on a dizzying new structure with brooding partner Charles McGraw. Mari Blanchard is McGraw's beautiful young wife, whose history of illicit romances Read More

Bad Day at Black Rock

Actors: Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis, Dean Jagger, Walter Brennan

Synopsis: This powerfully tense, fast-paced suspense drama also yields a grim social message about racial prejudice. Spencer Tracy is John J. MacReedy, a one-armed stranger who comes to the tiny town of Black Rock one hot summer day in 1945, the first time the train has stopped there in years. He looks for Read More

The Return of Jack Slade

Actors: John Ericson, Mari Blanchard, Neville Brand, Jon Shepodd

Synopsis: John Ericson essays the title character in Return of Jack Slade. Actually, Ericson plays Jack Slade Jr., determined to make amends for the wrongs perpetrated by his outlaw dad. Hired as a Pinkerton agent, the younger Slade goes undercover, joining a criminal gang in Wyoming. He falls in love with Read More

Opera Cameos

Synopsis: Enjoy these operatic performances in full costume with highlights from Verdi's La Traviata. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Rhapsody

Actors: Elizabeth Taylor, Vittorio Gassman, John Ericson, Louis Calhern, Michael Chekhov

Synopsis: Rhapsody is high-gloss soap opera in the grand MGM manner. Elizabeth Taylor stars as Louise Durant, the beautiful but spoiled daughter of millionaire Nicholas Durant (Louis Calhern). Accustomed to getting whatever she wants, Louise sets her sights on violin student Paul Bronte (Vittorio Gassman). Read More

The Student Prince

Actors: Ann Blyth, Edmund Purdom, John Ericson, Louis Calhern, Edmund Gwenn

Synopsis: Edmund Purdom plays Prince Karl, but Mario Lanza sings the bold tunes coming out of Purdom's mouth, in this MGM remake of the 1927 Ernst Lubitsch silent picture based on the renowned 1924 operetta by Sigmund Romberg and Dorothy Donnelly, which itself was based on the novel and play by Wilhelm Read More

Green Fire

Actors: Stewart Granger, Grace Kelly, Paul Douglas, John Ericson, Murvyn Vye

Synopsis: Set in the coffee fields of Colombia, Green Fires stars Stewart Granger and Grace Kelly. Granger plays emerald prospector Rian X. Mitchell, who intends to explore an old deserted mine despite the protests of his partner Vic Leonard Paul Douglas and the threat of death at the hands of local bandit Read More

Teresa

Actors: Anna Maria Pier Angeli, John Ericson, Patricia Collinge, Bill Mauldin, Richard Bishop, Peggy Ann Garner

Synopsis: In Teresa, director Fred Zinnemann adopts the same quasi-documentary approach he'd used in The Search (1948). Lensed on location in Italy and New York, the film introduces Pier Angeli in the title role, and co-stars three male newcomers: John Ericson, Ralph Meeker and Rod Steiger. Teresa is the Read More