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Chuck Connors

Acting

Born April 10, 1921 · Brooklyn, New York, U.S.

Died November 10, 1992

Also known as Touch Connors · Shailar Coby · Chuck Conners

Biography

​Chuck Connors (April 10, 1921 – November 10, 1992) was an American actor, writer, and professional basketball and baseball player. His best known role from his forty-year film career was Lucas McCain in the 1960s ABC hit Western series The Rifleman. Description above from the Wikipedia article Chuck Connors, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Awards & recognition

  • star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

Filmography50+ titles

The Don Knotts Show

as Self

Night Gallery

1969as Roderick Blanco

The Big Country

1958as Buck Hannassey

Murder, She Wrote

1984as Tyler Morgan

Roots

1977as Tom Moore

The Six Million Dollar Man

1974as Niles Lingstrom

The Rifleman

1958as Lucas McCain

Tales of Wells Fargo

1957as Rocky Nelson

Police Story

1973

What's My Line?

1950as Self - Panelist

Spenser: For Hire

1985as King Powers

Soylent Green

1973as Tab Fielding

Old Yeller

1957as Sanderson

Four Star Playhouse

1952as Mervyn

The Ed Sullivan Show

1948as Self

Here's Lucy

1968as Chuck Connors

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

1967as Self (uncredited)

Move Over, Darling

1963as Stephen Burkett

Designing Woman

1957as Johnnie 'O'

Gunsmoke

1955as Sam Keeler

Support Your Local Gunfighter

1971as 'Swifty' Morgan (uncredited)

Adventures of Superman

1952as Sylvester J. Superman

Letter to Loretta

as Jess Hayes

The Deserter

1970as Reynolds

The Virginian

1962as Gustaveson

Kill Them All and Come Back Alone

1968as Clyde Mac Kay

Pat and Mike

1952as Police Captain

Virus

1980as Captain McCloud - HMS Nereid

Airplane II: The Sequel

1982as The Sarge

Tourist Trap

1979as Mr. Slausen / Davey Slausen

Trouble Along the Way

1953as Stan Schwegler

Standing Tall

1978as Maj. Roland Hartline

Ride Beyond Vengeance

1966as Jonas Trapp

Tomahawk Trail

1957as Sgt. Wade McCoy

Target Zero

1955as Pvt. Moose

Flipper

1963as Porter Ricks

The Night They Took Miss Beautiful

1977as Mike O'Toole

Captain Nemo and the Underwater City

1969as Senator Robert Fraser

Salmonberries

1991as Bingo Chuck

Target Eagle

1982as Sam Fisher

The Best of Sex and Violence

1982as (archive footage)

Geronimo

1962as Geronimo

The Adventures of Jim Bowie

1956

Once Upon a Texas Train

1988as Nash Crawford

The Mad Bomber

1973as William Dorn

Death in Small Doses

1957as Mink Reynolds

Walk the Dark Street

1956as Frank Garrick

Day of the Assassin

1979as Fleming

Pancho Villa

1972as Colonel Wilcox

The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw

1991as The Rifleman