Dale Olson

Early life and family Dale Olson was born near Fargo, North Dakota to a young unmarried couple. His biological father was a lineman for a telephone company who had gotten into an accident and died. At around the age of three, his biological family put him up for adoption since they were unable to raise another child. A couple named Arthur Edwin Olson and Edith Weigt were not able to have children of their own, so they welcomed Dale Olson into their family.

The biological and adoptive families of Dale Olson were both Lutheran. Dale Olson's adoptive paternal grandfather, Charles Olson, was born in Sweden. Dale Olson's adoptive maternal grandparents, Samuel Weigt and Johanna Taron, were ethnic Germans from Russia.

Biography Olson spent much of his childhood in North Dakota, but eventually moved to Portland, Oregon with his family since they were no longer able to keep their farm. In a segment called “The Sex Variant in Southern California”, "Curtis White" acknowledged that he was homosexual and stated that he "didn't consider himself abnormal" and would not want to be "cured".

In addition to representing actors and other figures, Olson also worked on the campaigns for major Hollywood films. He launched the publicity campaigns for several Hollywood film franchises during the 1970s, including Rambo, Halloween, Rocky, and Superman. He also headed the Academy Award campaigns for many films, notably Terms of Endearment in 1983, American Beauty in 1999, and Gladiator in 2000.

The Actors Fund of America named the lobby of its Los Angeles headquarters in honor of Olson and his partner Eugene Harbin, in November 2004. Actress Shirley MacLaine presented Olson with the Actors Fund Medal of Honor, the organization's highest honor, on July 12, 2012.

Olson died of liver cancer at a nursing home in Burbank, California, on August 9, 2012, at the age of 78. He is buried at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. He was survived by his partner of thirty years and husband since 2008, publicist Eugene Harbin.