Carroll O'Connor
Actor
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.
Filmography
Kelly's Heroes
as Major General Colt 1970
Return to Me
as Marty O'Reilly 2000
Point Blank
as Brewster 1967
Lonely are the Brave
as Hinton 1962
In Harm's Way
as Lt. Commander Burke 1965
Marlowe
as Lt. Christy French 1969
The Devil's Brigade
as Maj. Gen. Maxwell Hunter 1968
Los Angeles Plays Itself
as Lt. Christy French in Marlowe (archive footage) 2004
Hawaii
as Charles Bromley 1966
What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?
as General Bolt 1966
Death of a Gunfighter
as Lester Locke 1969
Warning Shot
as Paul Jerez 1967
The Last Laugh
as Self 2016
Waterhole #3
as Sheriff John Copperud 1967
Doctors' Wives
as Joe Gray 1971
Gideon
as Leo Barnes 1998