C.O. Erickson was a producer and production manager best known for his work as the latter on five Alfred Hitchcock films: Rear Window, To Catch a Thief, The Trouble with Harry, The Man Who Knew Too Much and Vertigo.

Erickson also contributed to the films Chinatown, Blade Runner, Groundhog Day, Urban Cowboy and Fast Times at Ridgemont High.

Additionally, he worked as a production supervisor and associate producer on the television movie A Carol for Another Christmas, starring Sterling Hayden and Eva Marie Saint. The telefilm was nominated for two primetime Emmy Awards.

Erickson died June 28, 2017, in Las Vegas, Nevada. He was 93.