Carroll O'Connor

About

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

BonanzaSeries • 1959The FugitiveSeries • 1963Mission: ImpossibleSeries • 1966Mad About YouSeries • 1992Party of FiveSeries • 1994Dr. KildareSeries • 1961The Wild Wild WestSeries • 1965Naked CitySeries • 1958Ben CaseySeries • 1961The UntouchablesSeries • 1959All in the FamilySeries • 1971The DefendersSeries • 1961That GirlSeries • 1966The Outer LimitsSeries • 1963GunsmokeSeries • 1955The Electric CompanySeries • 1971In the Heat of the NightSeries • 1988Voyage to the Bottom of the SeaSeries • 1964Adventures in ParadiseSeries • 1959The Time TunnelSeries • 1966The Man from U.N.C.L.E.Series • 1964Archie Bunker's PlaceSeries • 1979I SpySeries • 1965Stoney BurkeSeries • 1962