Carroll O'Connor
Born: 1924-08-02 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Died: 2001-06-21
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2016
- The Last Laugh as Self
2004
- Los Angeles Plays Itself as Lt. Christy French in Marlowe (archive footage)
2000
- Return to Me as Marty O'Reilly
1999
- 36 Hours to Die as Jack 'Balls' O'Malley
1998
- Gideon as Leo Barnes
1995
- In the Heat of the Night: Grow Old Along with Me as Bill Gillespie
- In the Heat of the Night: By Duty Bound as Bill Gillespie
1994
- Party of Five as Jake Gordon
- In the Heat of the Night: A Matter of Justice as Bill Gillespie
- In the Heat of the Night: Who Was Geli Bendl? as Bill Gillespie
- In the Heat of the Night: Give Me Your Life as Sheriff William O. 'Bill' Gillespie
1992
- Mad About You as Gus Stemple
1988
- In the Heat of the Night as Bill Gillespie
1986
- Convicted as Lewis May
1985
- Brass as Frank Nolan
- The GLO Friends Save Christmas as Santa Claus (voice)
1979
- Archie Bunker's Place as Archie Bunker
1978
1977
- The Last Hurrah as Frank Skeffington
1976
- The Jacksons as El mismo
1975
- Saturday Night Live as Self - Cameo (uncredited)
- Bronk ... (Story)
1974
- Dinah! as Self
- Tony Orlando and Dawn as Self
- Law and Disorder as Willie
1972
- Of Thee I Sing as John P. Wintergreen
- Don Rickles: Alive And Kicking as Self
1971
- All in the Family as Archie Bunker
- The Electric Company
- Doctors' Wives as Joe Gray
1970
- Kelly's Heroes as Major General Colt
1969
- Marlowe as Lt. Christy French
- Death of a Gunfighter as Lester Locke
- Fear No Evil as Myles Donovan
- Ride a Northbound Horse as Mr. Davis
1968
- The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest
- Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In as Self
- The Devil's Brigade as Maj. Gen. Maxwell Hunter
- For Love of Ivy as Frank Austin
1967
- Warning Shot as Paul Jerez
- Waterhole #3 as Sheriff John Copperud
- Point Blank as Brewster
- Dundee and the Culhane
1966
- Mission: Impossible as Josef Varsh
- The Time Tunnel as Gen. Southall / Col. Phil Southall
- That Girl
- Hawaii as Charles Bromley
- What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? as General Bolt
- Not With My Wife, You Don't! as General Parker
1965
- The Wild Wild West as Fabian Lavendor
- I Spy as Dr. Karolyi
- In Harm's Way as Lt. Commander Burke
1964
- Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea as Old John
- The Man from U.N.C.L.E. as Walter B. Brach
- Profiles in Courage as Grover Cleveland
1963
- The Fugitive as Sheriff Bray
- The Outer Limits as Deimos
- Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre as Lawson
- Cleopatra as Casca
- The Great Adventure as O'Rourke
1962
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
- The Merv Griffin Show as Self
- Belle Sommers as Mr. Griffith
- Stoney Burke as Harry Clark
- Lonely are the Brave as Hinton
- Lad: A Dog as Hamilcar Q. Glure
1961
- The Mike Douglas Show as Self
- Dr. Kildare as Roy Drummond
- Ben Casey
- The Defenders as Joshua Ryder
- Parrish as Fireman (uncredited)
- A Fever in the Blood as Matt Kenan
- The Americans
- Kraft Mystery Theatre
- By Love Possessed as Bernie Breck
1960
1959
- Bonanza as Tom Slayden
- The Untouchables as Barney Lubin
- Adventures in Paradise as Henry Gresham
1958
- Naked City as Owen Oliver
1956
- Tony Awards as Self - Presenter
1955
- Gunsmoke as Hootie Kyle
1954
- The Wonderful World of Disney as Mr. Davis
1951
- Hallmark Hall of Fame as Frank Skeffington
1944
- Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee