Carroll O'Connor
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.
90 acting credits · 2 directing credits
Acting · 90
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
Saturday Night Live
1975
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
Bonanza
1959
Golden Globe Awards
1944
The Fugitive
1963
Mission: Impossible
1966
Mad About You
1992
Dr. Kildare
1961
Tony Awards
1956
Naked City
1958
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
The Merv Griffin Show
1962
Party of Five
1994
Ben Casey
1961
The Untouchables
1959
The Wild Wild West
1965
The Outer Limits
1963
The Defenders
1961
The Dick Cavett Show
1968
All in the Family
1971
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
1964
That Girl
1966
Gunsmoke
1955
In the Heat of the Night
1988
Adventures in Paradise
1959
Dinah!
1974
The Time Tunnel
1966
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1964
Archie Bunker's Place
1979
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
1968
The Electric Company
1971
I Spy
1965
The Great Adventure
1963
Stoney Burke
1962
Cleopatra
1963
Profiles in Courage
1964
The Wonderful World of Disney
1954
Tony Orlando and Dawn
1974
Kelly's Heroes
1970
The Americans
1961
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Kraft Mystery Theatre
1961
In Harm's Way
1965
Point Blank
1967
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
Dundee and the Culhane
1967
Return to Me
2000
Los Angeles Plays Itself
2004
The Jacksons
1976
The Last Laugh
2016
Lonely are the Brave
1962
What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?
1966
The Devil's Brigade
1968
Marlowe
1969
Hawaii
1966
Parrish
1961
Death of a Gunfighter
1969
Waterhole #3
1967
Warning Shot
1967
In the Heat of the Night: A Matter of Justice
1994
Gideon
1998
A Different Approach
1978
A Fever in the Blood
1961
Fear No Evil
1969
Not With My Wife, You Don't!
1966
In the Heat of the Night: Who Was Geli Bendl?
1994
Doctors' Wives
1971
Ride a Northbound Horse
1969
In the Heat of the Night: Give Me Your Life
1994
In the Heat of the Night: Grow Old Along with Me
1995
36 Hours to Die
1999
Don Rickles: Alive And Kicking
1972
In the Heat of the Night: By Duty Bound
1995
The Citadel
1960
The Father Clements Story
1987
Brass
1985
For Love of Ivy
1968
The Television Revolution Begins: "All in the Family" Is On the Air
2009
The Last Hurrah
1977
By Love Possessed
1961
Convicted
1986
Law and Disorder
1974
The GLO Friends Save Christmas
1985
All in the Family: 20th Anniversary Special
1991
Belle Sommers
1962
Of Thee I Sing
1972
Keep U.S. Beautiful
1973
Lad: A Dog
1962
Point Blank the Documentary
2024