SALT LAKE CITY - Pro Football Hall of Famer and former television actor Merlin Olsen has died. He was 69. Utah State University assistant athletic media relations director Zach Fisher says Olsen died Wednesday night at a Los Angeles hospital. He was diagnosed with mesothelioma last year. Story continues below ↓advertisement | your ad here Olsen was an All-American at Utah State and a first-round draft pick of the Los Angles Rams in 1962.