Acting credits
87
Prolific
Very extensive acting filmography.
Actor
Carroll O'Connor
Acting
Career Snapshot
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Movies: 44Series: 44Crew credits: 8
TMDB ID: 26512
IMDb ID: nm0005279
Known for: Acting
Born: August 2, 1924
Died: June 21, 2001
Age: 76
Place of birth: Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1944 - 2024
Years active: 81
Average TMDB rating: 7.03
Wikidata: Q555487
Also known as
John Carroll O'Connor • Matt Harris
Other jobs
Writer (3)Director (2)Story (2)Theme Song Performance (1)
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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Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Carroll O'Connor.
as Self
Point Blank the Documentary
2024 • Movie
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Last Laugh
2016 • Movie
as Self
The Television Revolution Begins: "All in the Family" Is On the Air
2009 • Movie
as Marty O'Reilly
Return to Me
2000 • Movie
as Jack 'Balls' O'Malley
36 Hours to Die
1999 • Movie
as Leo Barnes
Gideon
1998 • Movie
as Bill Gillespie
In the Heat of the Night: Grow Old Along with Me
1995 • Movie
as Bill Gillespie
In the Heat of the Night: By Duty Bound
1995 • Movie
as Bill Gillespie
In the Heat of the Night: Who Was Geli Bendl?
1994 • Movie
as Bill Gillespie
In the Heat of the Night: A Matter of Justice
1994 • Movie
as Sheriff William O. 'Bill' Gillespie
In the Heat of the Night: Give Me Your Life
1994 • Movie
All in the Family: 20th Anniversary Special
1991 • Movie
The Father Clements Story
1987 • Movie
as Lewis May
Convicted
1986 • Movie
as Santa Claus (voice)
The GLO Friends Save Christmas
1985 • Movie
as Frank Nolan
Brass
1985 • Movie
A Different Approach
1978 • Movie
as Frank Skeffington
The Last Hurrah
1977 • Movie
as Willie
Law and Disorder
1974 • Movie
as Self
Don Rickles: Alive and Kicking
1972 • Movie
as John P. Wintergreen
Of Thee I Sing
1972 • Movie
as Joe Gray
Doctors' Wives
1971 • Movie
as Major General Colt
Kelly's Heroes
1970 • Movie
as Lt. Christy French
Marlowe
1969 • Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Carroll O'Connor.
1 eps
E! True Hollywood Story
1996 • Series
as Jake Gordon • 6 eps
Party of Five
1994 • Series
as Gus Stemple • 4 eps
Mad About You
1992 • Series
as Bill Gillespie • 146 eps
In the Heat of the Night
1988 • Series
as Chief William O. 'Bill' Gillespie • 1 eps
En el calor de la noche
1988 • Series
as Archie Bunker • 97 eps
Archie Bunker's Place
1979 • Series
as El mismo • 1 eps
The Jacksons
1976 • Series
as Self - Cameo (uncredited) • 1 eps
Saturday Night Live
1975 • Series
Story • 1 eps
Bronk
1975 • Series
as Self • 1 eps
Tony Orlando and Dawn
1974 • Series
as Self • 3 eps
Dinah!
1974 • Series
1 eps
The Electric Company
1971 • Series
as Archie Bunker • 210 eps
All in the Family
1971 • Series
as Self - Guest • 2 eps
The Dick Cavett Show
1968 • Series
as Self • 1 eps
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
1968 • Series
1 eps
Dundee and the Culhane
1967 • Series
as Josef Varsh • 1 eps
Mission: Impossible
1966 • Series
as Gen. Southall / Col. Phil Southall • 1 eps
The Time Tunnel
1966 • Series
1 eps
That Girl
1966 • Series
as Fabian Lavendor • 1 eps
The Wild Wild West
1965 • Series
as Dr. Karolyi
I Spy
1965 • Series
as Walter B. Brach • 1 eps
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1964 • Series
as Old John • 1 eps
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
1964 • Series
as O'Rourke • 1 eps
The Great Adventure
1963 • Series