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.

Movies & TV Shows

1. Cleopatra (1963) — Casca
2. Kelly's Heroes (1970) — Major General Colt
3. Saturday Night Live (1975) — Self - Cameo (uncredited)
4. Bonanza (1959) — Tom Slayden
5. Return to Me (2000) — Marty O'Reilly
6. Point Blank (1967) — Brewster
7. Mission: Impossible (1966) — Josef Varsh
8. Mad About You (1992) — Gus Stemple
9. The Time Tunnel (1966) — Gen. Southall / Col. Phil Southall
10. All in the Family (1971) — Archie Bunker
11. Lonely are the Brave (1962) — Hinton
12. In Harm's Way (1965) — Lt. Commander Burke
13. The Outer Limits (1963) — Deimos
14. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964) — Old John
15. The Untouchables (1959) — Barney Lubin
16. Party of Five (1994) — Jake Gordon
17. Gunsmoke (1955) — Hootie Kyle
18. Marlowe (1969) — Lt. Christy French
19. The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962) — Self
20. The Devil's Brigade (1968) — Maj. Gen. Maxwell Hunter
21. The Wild Wild West (1965) — Fabian Lavendor
22. E! True Hollywood Story (1996)
23. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964) — Walter B. Brach
24. In the Heat of the Night (1988) — Bill Gillespie
25. The Fugitive (1963) — Sheriff Bray
26. Hawaii (1966) — Charles Bromley
27. What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? (1966) — General Bolt
28. Death of a Gunfighter (1969) — Lester Locke
29. Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1968) — Self
30. That Girl (1966)
31. The Wonderful World of Disney (1954) — Mr. Davis
32. I Spy (1965) — Dr. Karolyi
33. Warning Shot (1967) — Paul Jerez
34. The Electric Company (1971)
35. Archie Bunker's Place (1979) — Archie Bunker
36. The Dick Cavett Show (1968) — Self - Guest
37. The Last Laugh (2016) — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
38. Waterhole #3 (1967) — Sheriff John Copperud
39. Golden Globe Awards (1944) — Self - Nominee
40. Dr. Kildare (1961) — Roy Drummond

Directed

1. In the Heat of the Night (1988) — Director
2. Archie Bunker's Place (1979) — Director