Carroll O'Connor

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1924-08-02 (77 years old)

Deathday

2001-06-21

Place of Birth

Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

Carroll O'Connor

Biography

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 Chi...

Acting

1969

Marlowe

as Lt. Christy French

2000

Return to Me

as Marty O'Reilly

1970

Kelly's Heroes

as Major General Colt

1963

Cleopatra

as Casca

1967

Point Blank

as Brewster

1966

Hawaii

as Charles Bromley

1965

In Harm's Way

as Lt. Commander Burke

1968

For Love of Ivy

as Frank Austin

2004

Los Angeles Plays Itself

as Lt. Christy French in Marlowe (archive footage)

1967

Waterhole #3

as Sheriff John Copperud

1969

Death of a Gunfighter

as Lester Locke

1966

1967

Warning Shot

as Paul Jerez

1961

By Love Possessed

as Bernie Breck

1974

1971

Doctors' Wives

as Joe Gray

1985

The GLO Friends Save Christmas

as Santa Claus (voice)

2016

1998

Gideon

as Leo Barnes

1969

Fear No Evil

as Myles Donovan

1999

36 Hours to Die

as Jack 'Balls' O'Malley

1961

Parrish

as Fireman (uncredited)

1994

In the Heat of the Night: Give Me Your Life

as Sheriff William O. 'Bill' Gillespie

1961

1977

The Last Hurrah

as Frank Skeffington

1962

Lad: A Dog

as Hamilcar Q. Glure

1961

Parrish

as Firechief (uncredited)

1968

The Devil's Brigade

as Maj. Gen. Maxwell Hunter

1962

Belle Sommers

as Mr. Griffith

1986

Convicted

as Lewis May

1969

1985

Brass

as Frank Nolan

1972

Of Thee I Sing

as John P. Wintergreen

Production

1977

1977

The Last Hurrah

as Executive Producer

1985

Brass

as Executive Producer

1985

Brass

as Writer

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