Biography
John Carroll O'Connor was an American actor whose television career spanned over four decades. He found widespread fame as Archie Bunker, the main character in the CBS television sitcoms All in the Family (1971–1979) and its continuation, Archie Bunker's Place (1979–1983). He later starred in the NBC/CBS television crime drama In the Heat of the Night (1988–1995), where he played the role of police chief William "Bill" Gillespie. In the late 1990s, he played Gus Stemple, the father of Jamie Buchman on Mad About You. In 1996, O'Connor was ranked number 38 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time. He won five Emmys and one Golden Globe Award.
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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
The Fugitive
Lonely Are the Brave
The Electric Company
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
The Last Laugh
Party of Five
Point Blank
Cleopatra
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
Archie Bunker's Place
I Spy
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