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Carroll O'Connor

Carroll O'Connor

Birthday: 1924-08-02 | Place of Birth: Manhattan, New York, United States

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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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2000
Return to Me

as    Marty O'Reilly

1999
36 Hours to Die

as    Jack 'Balls' O'Malley

1998
Gideon

as    Leo Barnes

1988
In the Heat of the Night

as    Bill Gillespie

1985
The GLO Friends Save Christmas

as    Santa Claus (voice)

1979
Archie Bunker's Place

as    Archie Bunker

1974
Law and Disorder

as    Willie

1971
All in the Family

as    Archie Bunker

1970
Kelly's Heroes

as    Major General Colt

1969
Death of a Gunfighter

as    Lester Locke

1969
Marlowe

as    Lt. Christy French

1969
Fear No Evil

as    Myles Donovan

1968
For Love of Ivy

as    Frank Austin

1967
Point Blank

as    Brewster

1967
Waterhole #3

as    Sheriff John Copperud

1966
Hawaii

as    Charles Bromley

1966
What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?

as    General Bolt

1966
Not With My Wife, You Don't

as    General Parker

1962
Lonely are the Brave

as    Hinton