Carroll O'Connor
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. John Carroll O'Connor (August 2, 1924 – June 21, 2001) best 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Carroll O'Connor, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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- Born:
- Aug 2, 1924 In Manhattan, New York, United States
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 27
- First Appeared:
- In the movie A Fever in the Blood 1961-01-28
- Latest Project:
- Movie The Last Laugh 2016-04-18
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | The Last Laugh | Self | 2016-04-18 |
| Movie | Gideon | Leo Barnes | 1998-10-26 |
| Movie | The GLO Friends Save Christmas | Santa Claus (voice) | 1985-12-21 |
| Series | Archie Bunker's Place | Archie Bunker | 1979-09-23 |
| Movie | A Different Approach | 1978-01-01 | |
| Movie | The Last Hurrah | Frank Skeffington | 1977-11-16 |
| Movie | Law and Disorder | Willie | 1974-10-09 |
| Movie | Doctors' Wives | Joe Gray | 1971-02-03 |
| Series | All in the Family | Archie Bunker | 1971-01-12 |
| Movie | Fear No Evil | Myles Donovan | 1969-03-03 |
| Movie | Death of a Gunfighter | Lester Locke | 1969-05-08 |
| Movie | Marlowe | Lt. Christy French | 1969-09-19 |
| Movie | For Love of Ivy | Frank Austin | 1968-07-17 |
| Movie | Warning Shot | Paul Jerez | 1967-01-18 |
| Movie | Waterhole #3 | Sheriff John Copperud | 1967-10-10 |
| Movie | Point Blank | Brewster | 1967-08-30 |
| Movie | What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? | General Bolt | 1966-08-31 |
| Movie | Not With My Wife, You Don't | General Parker | 1966-11-02 |
| Movie | Hawaii | Charles Bromley | 1966-10-10 |
| Movie | In Harm's Way | Lt. Commander Burke | 1965-04-06 |
| Series | I Spy | Dr. Karolyi | 1965-09-15 |
| Movie | Nightmare in Chicago | 1964-04-02 | |
| Movie | Lonely are the Brave | Hinton | 1962-05-24 |
| Movie | Lad: A Dog | Hamilcar Q. Glure | 1962-06-02 |
| Movie | A Fever in the Blood | Matt Kenan | 1961-01-28 |
| Movie | By Love Possessed | Bernie Breck | 1961-07-19 |
| Movie | Parrish | Firechief (uncredited) | 1961-05-04 |