Carroll O'Connor
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
Top 40 Movies
Warning Shot
1967
Lonely are the Brave
1962
Return to Me
2000
What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?
1966
Cleopatra
1963
The Television Revolution Begins: "All in the Family" Is On the Air
2009
In the Heat of the Night: Grow Old Along with Me
1995
In the Heat of the Night: Who Was Geli Bendl?
1994
In the Heat of the Night: A Matter of Justice
1994
Don Rickles: Alive And Kicking
1972
A Different Approach
1978
Point Blank
1967
A Fever in the Blood
1961
Not With My Wife, You Don't!
1966
Fear No Evil
1969
Law and Disorder
1974
Kelly's Heroes
1970
Death of a Gunfighter
1969
The Devil's Brigade
1968
Marlowe
1969
In Harm's Way
1965
All in the Family: 20th Anniversary Special
1991
Hawaii
1966
In the Heat of the Night: By Duty Bound
1995
Gideon
1998
Doctors' Wives
1971
Parrish
1961
Parrish
1961
36 Hours to Die
1999
Waterhole #3
1967
Los Angeles Plays Itself
2004
Ride a Northbound Horse
1969
The Last Laugh
2016
The Last Hurrah
1977
For Love of Ivy
1968
The Citadel
1960
In the Heat of the Night: Give Me Your Life
1994
The Father Clements Story
1987
Lad: A Dog
1962
Brass
1985