Carroll O'Connor
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.
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Full filmography
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962) as Self
- Saturday Night Live (1975) as Self - Cameo (uncredited)
- The Fugitive (1963) as Sheriff Bray
- The Mike Douglas Show (1961) as Self
- The Mike Douglas Show (1961) as Self - Co-Host
- Bonanza (1959) as Tom Slayden
- Golden Globe Awards (1944) as Self - Nominee
- Golden Globe Awards (1944) as Self - Nominee / Presenter
- The Merv Griffin Show (1962) as Self
- The Wild Wild West (1965) as Fabian Lavendor
- Tony Awards (1956) as Self - Presenter
- Party of Five (1994) as Jake Gordon
- Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964) as Old John
- Mission: Impossible (1966) as Josef Varsh
- The Untouchables (1959) as Barney Lubin
- The Untouchables (1959) as Arnie Kurtz
- Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1963) as Lawson
- Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1963) as Capt. Ted Eyck
- Mad About You (1992) as Gus Stemple
- Gunsmoke (1955) as Hootie Kyle
- Gunsmoke (1955) as Major Vanscoy
- The Dick Cavett Show (1968) as Self - Guest
- Dr. Kildare (1961) as Roy Drummond
- Dr. Kildare (1961) as David Burnside