As Actor
Return to Me
2000
6.6
Carroll O'Connor
Acting
Birth Date
August 2, 1924
Place of Birth
Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Date of Death
June 21, 2001
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.
Complete Filmography
As Actor
36 Hours to Die
1999
4.2
As Actor
Gideon
1998
5.8
As Actor
The GLO Friends Save Christmas
1985
3.0
As Actor, As Writer
Brass
1985
1.0
As Actor
Law and Disorder
1974
4.9
As Actor
Kelly's Heroes
1970
7.3
As Actor
Marlowe
1969
6.0
As Actor
Death of a Gunfighter
1969
6.4
As Actor
Fear No Evil
1969
6.7
As Actor
For Love of Ivy
1968
5.9
As Actor
Waterhole #3
1967
6.0
As Actor
Point Blank
1967
7.0
As Actor
Hawaii
1966
6.3
As Actor
What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?
1966
6.0
As Actor
Lad: A Dog
1962
6.5
As Actor
Lonely are the Brave
1962
7.4
As Actor
A Fever in the Blood
1961
6.5