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.
Also Known As
Movie Appearances
Marlowe
as Lt. Christy French
1969
Return to Me
as Marty O'Reilly
2000
Kelly's Heroes
as Major General Colt
1970
Cleopatra
as Casca
1963
The Citadel
1960
Point Blank
as Brewster
1967
What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?
as General Bolt
1966
Hawaii
as Charles Bromley
1966
Lonely are the Brave
as Hinton
1962
In Harm's Way
as Lt. Commander Burke
1965
Don Rickles: Alive And Kicking
as Self
1972
For Love of Ivy
as Frank Austin
1968
Los Angeles Plays Itself
as Lt. Christy French in Marlowe (archive footage)
2004
Waterhole #3
as Sheriff John Copperud
1967
Death of a Gunfighter
as Lester Locke
1969
Not With My Wife, You Don't!
as General Parker
1966
The Television Revolution Begins: "All in the Family" Is On the Air
as Self
2009
Warning Shot
as Paul Jerez
1967
By Love Possessed
as Bernie Breck
1961
Law and Disorder
as Willie
1974
TV Appearances
The Time Tunnel
as Gen. Southall / Col. Phil Southall
1966
Mad About You
as Gus Stemple
1992
In the Heat of the Night
as Bill Gillespie
1988
The Great Adventure
as O'Rourke
1963
That Girl
1966
All in the Family
as Archie Bunker
1971
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
Naked City
as Owen Oliver
1958
Gunsmoke
as Hootie Kyle
1955
Archie Bunker's Place
as Archie Bunker
1979
Mission: Impossible
as Josef Varsh
1966
The Electric Company
1971