Merlin Olsen

Merlin Olsen

Merlin Jay Olsen (September 15, 1940 – March 11, 2010) was an American professional football player, announcer, and actor. For his entire 15-year professional football career (1962 - 1976), he was a defensive tackle for the Los Angeles Rams. He was selected to play in the Pro Bowl a then-record 14 times (surpassed only by Tom Brady). He is a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame and the College Football Hall of Fame. As an actor, Olsen is best known for portraying farmer Jonathan Garvey on the fourth through seventh seasons of Little House on the Prairie (1977 - 1981). He went on to star as the title character in the Western series Father Murphy (1981 - 1983).

  • Title: Merlin Olsen
  • Popularity: 0.8593
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1940-09-15
  • Place of Birth: Logan, Utah, USA
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Merlin Olsen Movies

  • 1975
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    Mitchell

    Mitchell

    3.2 1975 HD

    A tough-guy cop pursues two drug runners across the city to bust a large syndicate. Very much an anti-hero, Mitchell often ignores the orders of his superiors and demonstrates disdain for by-the-book development work as well as normal social graces.

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  • 1969
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    The Undefeated

    The Undefeated

    6.2 1969 HD

    After the Civil War, ex-Union Colonel John Henry Thomas and ex-Confederate Colonel James Langdon are leading two disparate groups of people through strife-torn Mexico. John Henry and company are bringing horses to the unpopular Mexican government for $35 a head while Langdon is leading a contingent of displaced southerners, who are looking for a new life in Mexico after losing their property to carpetbaggers. The two men are eventually forced to mend their differences in order to fight off both bandits and revolutionaries, as they try to lead their friends and kin to safety.

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  • 1984
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    Time Bomb

    Time Bomb

    4 1984 HD

    A gang of terrorists tries to hijack a truck carrying plutonium.

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  • 1980
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    The Golden Moment: An Olympic Love Story

    The Golden Moment: An Olympic Love Story

    1 1980 HD

    This Olympics film, tied in with the planned 1980 games from which the United States subsequently withdrew, focuses on an American athlete whose dreams of winning the Decathlon are threatened by his romance with a pretty Russian gymnast.

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  • 1978
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    A Fire in the Sky

    A Fire in the Sky

    5.5 1978 HD

    Astronomers discover a comet that they believe will crash into Phoenix, Arizona. They attempt to warn officials, but without 100% certainty, the governor of Arizona is reticent to cause a panic. Even after a television news reporter discovers the truth and threatens to go live with it, the response is understated enough to doom some residents of Phoenix to certain death.

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  • 1971
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    Something Big

    Something Big

    5.095 1971 HD

    Joe Baker has a dream. He wants to do 'something big.' When he needs a Gatling gun to accomplish this, he seeks out a black marketeer. The price he wants for the gun? A woman! So Baker kidnaps a woman off of the stagecoach, only to find that she is the wife of the commandant of the local Cavalry detachment. Things get further complicated when a girl named Dover McBride shows up. She has come to force Baker to marry her and return east, as he promised to do four years earlier

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  • 1971
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    One More Train to Rob

    One More Train to Rob

    5.361 1971 HD

    Harker Flet and compatriots Timothy X. Nolan and Katy, along with three other men, steal $40,000 in money and jewelry from a California train in the gold-mining country of the 1880's. The six split up and while they are hiding out awaiting the rendezvous to divide the loot, Hark is cornered, framed and sent to prison. He is released after two-and-a-half years and sets out to find Katy and Nolan and get his share of the loot.

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  • 1972
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    Kung Fu

    Kung Fu

    7.68 1972 HD

    The adventures of a Shaolin Monk as he wanders the American West armed only with his skill in Kung Fu.

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  • 1963
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    Petticoat Junction

    Petticoat Junction

    5.7 1963 HD

    The Bradley family are proud owners of the Shady Rest Hotel. Kate and her three young daughters do the job of running the hotel.

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  • 1981
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    Father Murphy

    Father Murphy

    8 1981 HD

    A good-hearted frontiersman poses as a priest to start an orphanage for a group of kids whose homes have been destroyed by an evil mining manager.

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  • 1988
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    Aaron's Way

    Aaron's Way

    5 1988 HD

    Aaron's Way is a 1988 American family drama series that aired on NBC. The series stars Merlin Olsen as Aaron Miller, the husband and father of an Amish family that moves to California. The series follows the attempts of family members to adapt to California culture while retaining their personal values. Also appearing on the series were Samantha Mathis and Belinda Montgomery.

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  • 1964
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    Shindig!

    Shindig!

    6.2 1964 HD

    Shindig! is an American musical variety series which aired on ABC from September 16, 1964 to January 8, 1966. The show was hosted by Jimmy O'Neill, a disc jockey in Los Angeles at the time who also created the show along with his wife Sharon Sheeley and production executive Art Stolnitz. The original pilot was rejected by ABC and David Sontag, then Executive Producer of ABC, redeveloped and completely redesigned the show. A new pilot with a new cast of artists was shot starring Sam Cooke. That pilot aired as the premiere episode.

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  • 1972
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    The Brian Keith Show

    The Brian Keith Show

    5 1972 HD

    The Brian Keith Show is an American sitcom that aired on NBC from September 1972 to March 1974. The series stars Brian Keith and Shelley Fabares.

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  • 1986
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    Fathers and Sons

    Fathers and Sons

    5 1986 HD

    Fathers and Sons is an American sitcom that aired from April 6 until May 4, 1986.

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  • 2022
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    Joe Montana: Cool Under Pressure

    Joe Montana: Cool Under Pressure

    6.5 2022 HD

    Montana's first hand account of his career from the earliest days to national champion at Notre Dame and becoming a four-time Super Bowl winner and a Pro Football Hall of Famer.

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  • 1970
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    Monday Night Football

    Monday Night Football

    1 1970 HD

    Howard Cosell hosted the first instalment of Monday Night Football.

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  • 1970
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    Monday Night Football

    Monday Night Football

    1 1970 HD

    Howard Cosell hosted the first instalment of Monday Night Football.

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  • 1970
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    Monday Night Football

    Monday Night Football

    1 1970 HD

    Howard Cosell hosted the first instalment of Monday Night Football.

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  • 1974
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    Little House on the Prairie

    Little House on the Prairie

    7.919 1974 HD

    When the big woods of Wisconsin becomes a difficult spot for hunting, Charles Ingalls reluctantly decides to move his family, pioneering west. Their life on the farm in Walnut Grove, Minnesota, in the 1870s and 1880s is full of adventure, tragedy, and triumph. Based on the books of Laura Ingalls Wilder.

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