Carroll O'Connor
Acting · Born 1924-08-02 · age 76 at death · Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
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.
Titles
Cleopatra
Kelly's Heroes
Bonanza
Return to Me
Point Blank
Mission: Impossible
Mad About You
The Time Tunnel
All in the Family
Lonely are the Brave
In Harm's Way
The Outer Limits
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
The Untouchables
Party of Five
Gunsmoke
Marlowe
The Devil's Brigade
The Wild Wild West
E! True Hollywood Story
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
In the Heat of the Night
The Fugitive
Hawaii
What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?
Death of a Gunfighter
The Wonderful World of Disney
That Girl
I Spy
Warning Shot
The Electric Company
Archie Bunker's Place
Waterhole #3
Dr. Kildare
Doctors' Wives
Gideon
Ben Casey
36 Hours to Die
Naked City
Law and Disorder
Parrish
Not With My Wife, You Don't!
Fear No Evil
The Defenders
By Love Possessed
For Love of Ivy
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
Adventures in Paradise
A Fever in the Blood
A Different Approach
The Jacksons
Bronk
The GLO Friends Save Christmas
Stoney Burke
Kraft Mystery Theatre
Lad: A Dog
All in the Family: 20th Anniversary Special
Dundee and the Culhane
In the Heat of the Night: Who Was Geli Bendl?