Carroll O’Connor
American actor (1924–2001)
- Born August 2, 1924
- 3 movies
Carroll O'Connor was an American actor whose television career spanned more than four decades. He found fame as Archie Bunker on the CBS sitcom All in the Family and its continuation, Archie Bunker's Place, winning four Emmy Awards for the role. He later starred as police chief Bill Gillespie in In the Heat of the Night and played Gus Stemple on Mad About You. In all he won five Emmys and a Golden Globe.
Carroll O’Connor appears in 3 films in The Rerun, from 1958 to 1966. Most of that work is in drama, history and western. Frequent collaborators in The Rerun: Kirk Douglas (2).
Known for
- All in the Family (1971), Archie Bunker. The role that made him famous and won him four Emmy Awards.
- In the Heat of the Night (1988), Bill Gillespie. Starred as the police chief in the crime drama from 1988 to 1995.
- Mad About You, Gus Stemple. Played the father of Helen Hunt’s Jamie Buchman in the late 1990s.
- The Defiant Ones (1958). An early film credit before his television fame.
- Lonely Are the Brave (1962). A supporting film role from the early 1960s.
Movies
Quick answers
- What movies and TV shows has Carroll O’Connor been in?
- Carroll O’Connor appears in Hawaii (1966), Lonely Are the Brave (1962) and The Defiant Ones (1958) on The Remote.
- When was Carroll O’Connor born?
- Carroll O’Connor was born on 2 August 1924.
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