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Carroll O'Connor

Also Known As: John Carroll O'Connor, Matt Harris

Birth Date

August 2, 1924

Death Date

June 21, 2001

(passed away at 76)

Place of Birth

Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

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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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Saturday Night Live

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

The Mike Douglas Show

Bonanza

Golden Globe Awards

The Fugitive

Mission: Impossible

The Dick Cavett Show

The Wild Wild West

The Merv Griffin Show

Tony Awards

Dr. Kildare

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

Party of Five

Mad About You

The Untouchables

Naked City

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

Gunsmoke

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