John Ericson (1926-2020) *93

John Ericson was a German-American film and television actor. Ericson was born Joachim Alexander Ottokar Meibes in Düsseldorf, Germany. His parents, Ellen, an actrress and operatic star, and Carl F. Meibes, who was president of a New York food extract corporation, left Germany, reportedly to escape the rising Nazi regime, to the United States. Ericson trained at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York, and played the lead role in Stalag 17 by Donald Bevan and Edmund Trzcinski on Broadway in 1951.[citation needed] He made a number of films for MGM in quick succession in the 1950s. His first appearance was in Teresa (1951), directed by Fred Zinnemann. He appeared in a series of films which included Rhapsody, The Student Prince, Green Fire (all in 1954), and in Bad Day at Black Rock (1955). He co-starred with Barbara Stanwyck in Forty Guns (1957). In 1958 he appeared as Sheriff Barney Wiley in the western Day of the Badman which starred Fred MacMurray.

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