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
Cleopatra
Casca
Kelly's Heroes
Major General Colt
Saturday Night Live
Self - Cameo (uncredited)
Bonanza
Tom Slayden
Return to Me
Marty O'Reilly
Point Blank
Brewster
Mission: Impossible
Josef Varsh
Mad About You
Gus Stemple
The Time Tunnel
Gen. Southall / Col. Phil Southall
All in the Family
Archie Bunker
Lonely are the Brave
Hinton
In Harm's Way
Lt. Commander Burke
The Outer Limits
Deimos
The Untouchables
Barney Lubin
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
Old John
The Untouchables
Arnie Kurtz
Party of Five
Jake Gordon
Gunsmoke
Hootie Kyle
Gunsmoke
Major Vanscoy
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
Marlowe
Lt. Christy French
The Devil's Brigade
Maj. Gen. Maxwell Hunter
The Wild Wild West
Fabian Lavendor
E! True Hollywood Story
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Walter B. Brach
In the Heat of the Night
Bill Gillespie
The Fugitive
Sheriff Bray
Hawaii
Charles Bromley
What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?
General Bolt
Death of a Gunfighter
Lester Locke
The Wonderful World of Disney
Mr. Davis
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Self
That Girl
I Spy
Dr. Karolyi
Warning Shot
Paul Jerez
The Electric Company
Archie Bunker's Place
Archie Bunker
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest
The Last Laugh
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee