Biography

C.O. "Doc" Erickson, an executive producer, has over thirty years' experience as a producer and production manager on many of Hollywood's biggest films. He began his career at Paramount Pictures, serving as production manager on five Alfred Hitchcock films: Rear Window (1954), To Catch a Thief (1955), The Trouble with Harry (1955), The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), and Vertigo (1958). He left Paramount to become John Huston's associate producer on The Misfits (1961), Freud (1962), and Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967). He was production manager on Joseph L. Mankiewicz's There Was a Crooked Man... (1970). He also spent three years supervising film production for Brut Productions and later became associated with Robert Evans on Chinatown (1974), Players (1979), Urban Cowboy (1980), and Popeye (1980). Other producer/production credits include 55 Days at Peking (1963), Blade Runner (1982), Nicholas and Alexandra (1971), Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982), Magic (1978), and The Lonely Guy (1984).
- IMDb mini biography by: Anonymous

Though most of his work was behind the scenes, he's remembered as the barber shop customer who angers Jack Nicholson in Chinatown by saying, "Fools names and fools faces," about his coverage in the newspaper.

For me, Cecil B. Demille was a guy totally out of reach and I really had no business being in contact with him whatsoever. ...He had sent some guys off to Kansas City to collect information for a film he was developing called Boy Scout. I happened to be in the front office at Paramount and his people called-in with a report for him, so I passed it onto the head of my department and he said: 'No, you run-it to Demille, he's on the lot right now'. So I found him in the cafeteria with his assistant. Cecil got up, shook my hand. He was a nice man.