Carroll O'Connor
Acting
- Born:
- 1924-08-02
- Died:
- 2001-06-21
- Place of birth:
- Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Biography
John Carroll O'Connor (August 2, 1924 – June 21, 2001), better known as Carroll O'Connor, was an American actor, producer and director whose television career spanned four decades. Known at first for playing the role of Major General Colt in the 1970 movie, Kelly's Heroes, he later found fame as the bigoted working man Archie Bunker, the main character in the 1970s CBS television sitcoms All in the Family (1971 to 1979) and Archie Bunker's Place (1979 to 1983). O'Connor later starred in the NBC television crime drama In the Heat of the Night from 1988 to 1995, where he played the role of southern Police Chief William (Bill) Gillespie. At the end of his career in the late 1990s, he played the father of Jamie Stemple Buchman (Helen Hunt) on Mad About You.
Known For
Filmography
Point Blank the Documentary
The Last Laugh
The Television Revolution Begins: "All in the Family" Is On the Air
Return to Me
36 Hours to Die
Gideon
E! True Hollywood Story
In the Heat of the Night: Grow Old Along with Me
In the Heat of the Night: By Duty Bound
In the Heat of the Night: Who Was Geli Bendl?
In the Heat of the Night: A Matter of Justice
Party of Five
In the Heat of the Night: Give Me Your Life
Mad About You
All in the Family: 20th Anniversary Special
In the Heat of the Night
En el calor de la noche
The Father Clements Story
Convicted
The GLO Friends Save Christmas
Brass
Archie Bunker's Place
A Different Approach
The Last Hurrah
The Jacksons
Saturday Night Live
Bronk
Tony Orlando and Dawn
Dinah!
Law and Disorder
Keep U.S. Beautiful
Don Rickles: Alive and Kicking
Of Thee I Sing
The Electric Company
Doctors' Wives
All in the Family
Kelly's Heroes
Marlowe
Death of a Gunfighter
Ride a Northbound Horse
Fear No Evil
For Love of Ivy
The Dick Cavett Show
The Devil's Brigade
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Waterhole #3
Dundee and the Culhane
Point Blank
Warning Shot
Not With My Wife, You Don't!
Hawaii
Mission: Impossible
The Time Tunnel
That Girl
What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?
The Wild Wild West
I Spy
In Harm's Way
Profiles in Courage
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.