Carroll O'Connor
Acting
Born: 1924-08-02 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
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.
Known For
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
Saturday Night Live
Self - Cameo (uncredited)
The Fugitive
Sheriff Bray
The Mike Douglas Show
Self
The Mike Douglas Show
Self - Co-Host
Tony Awards
Self - Presenter
Bonanza
Tom Slayden
Mission: Impossible
Josef Varsh
The Merv Griffin Show
Self
Mad About You
Gus Stemple
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee / Presenter
The Wild Wild West
Fabian Lavendor
Party of Five
Jake Gordon
Dr. Kildare
Roy Drummond
Dr. Kildare
David Burnside
The Untouchables
Barney Lubin
The Untouchables
Arnie Kurtz
Gunsmoke
Hootie Kyle
Gunsmoke
Major Vanscoy
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest
The Defenders
Joshua Ryder
The Defenders
Dr. Hugh Morgan
In the Heat of the Night
Bill Gillespie
Naked City
Owen Oliver
Naked City
Tony Corran
All in the Family
Archie Bunker
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Self
The Outer Limits
Deimos
Ben Casey
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
Old John
Dinah!
Self
Stoney Burke
Harry Clark
The Electric Company
The Time Tunnel
Gen. Southall / Col. Phil Southall
That Girl
I Spy
Dr. Karolyi
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Walter B. Brach