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Carroll O'Connor

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Directed movies: 0Directed series: 2All crew 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: 7.02

Wikidata: Q555487

Also known as

John Carroll O'Connor • Matt Harris

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Director (2)Writer (3)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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