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.
Awards & recognition
- Primetime Emmy Award — Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series · 1989
- Primetime Emmy Award — Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series · 1979
- Primetime Emmy Award — Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series · 1978
- Primetime Emmy Award — Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series · 1977
- Primetime Emmy Award — Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series · 1972
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- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
Filmography42 titles
In the Heat of the Night: Who Was Geli Bendl?
In the Heat of the Night: By Duty Bound
All in the Family
The Outer Limits
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
Los Angeles Plays Itself
In the Heat of the Night
Mission: Impossible
The Time Tunnel
The Wild Wild West
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Bonanza
Kelly's Heroes
Lonely Are the Brave
The Electric Company
The Fugitive
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Cleopatra
The Last Laugh
Party of Five
Point Blank
Saturday Night Live
The Dick Cavett Show
Stoney Burke
Return to Me
Mad About You
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Gunsmoke
In Harm's Way
I Spy
Archie Bunker's Place
Warning Shot
The Devil's Brigade
Hawaii
That Girl
Marlowe
What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?
Waterhole #3
Naked City
By Love Possessed
Parrish
Don Rickles: Alive And Kicking