| John Ericson | |
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from The Student Prince (1954) |
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| Born | John Meibes September 25, 1926 Düsseldorf, Germany |
| Years active | 1950–2008 |
| Spouse | Milly Coury (1953–1971) (divorced) 2 children Karen Ericson (1974–present} |
John Ericson (sometimes Erickson) (born John Meibes on September 25, 1926) is 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.
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 opposite Spencer Tracy in the western classic Bad Day at Black Rock (1955). Ericson also co-starred with Barbara Stanwyck (as her brother) in Samuel Fuller's western Forty Guns.
His career continued, mostly on television, for the next thirty years. He appeared in the lead role in "The Peter Bartley Story" of CBS's 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 CBS's Appointment with Adventure. He guest starred in 1958 in the NBC western series The Restless Gun, starring John Payne and in the 1961 ABC crime drama, Target: The Corruptors!
From 1965–66, Ericson co-starred as the partner of Anne Francis in the ABC detective series Honey West, a unique concept about a female private eye. He and Francis had played brother and sister in Bad Day at Black Rock.
He also appeared in such films as Pretty Boy Floyd (1960), 7 Faces of Dr. Lao (1964) and Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971).
He has been married twice and has two children from his first marriage to Milly Coury.