Carroll O'Connor
ActingAlso Known As
John Carroll O'Connor, Matt Harris
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
(46 total)
Cleopatra
as Casca
Kelly's Heroes
as Major General Colt
Return to Me
as Marty O'Reilly
Point Blank
as Brewster
Lonely are the Brave
as Hinton
In Harm's Way
as Lt. Commander Burke
Marlowe
as Lt. Christy French
The Devil's Brigade
as Maj. Gen. Maxwell Hunter
Los Angeles Plays Itself
as Lt. Christy French in Marlowe (archive footage)
Hawaii
as Charles Bromley
What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?
as General Bolt
Death of a Gunfighter
as Lester Locke
Warning Shot
as Paul Jerez
The Last Laugh
as Self
Waterhole #3
as Sheriff John Copperud
Doctors' Wives
as Joe Gray
Gideon
as Leo Barnes
36 Hours to Die
as Jack 'Balls' O'Malley
Law and Disorder
as Willie
Not With My Wife, You Don't!
as General Parker
TV Shows
(52 total)
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Cameo (uncredited)
Bonanza
as Tom Slayden
Mission: Impossible
as Josef Varsh
Mad About You
as Gus Stemple
The Time Tunnel
as Gen. Southall / Col. Phil Southall
All in the Family
as Archie Bunker
The Outer Limits
as Deimos
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
as Old John
Party of Five
as Jake Gordon
The Untouchables
as Barney Lubin
The Untouchables
as Arnie Kurtz
Gunsmoke
as Hootie Kyle
Gunsmoke
as Major Vanscoy
The Wild Wild West
as Fabian Lavendor
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
as Walter B. Brach
In the Heat of the Night
as Bill Gillespie
The Fugitive
as Sheriff Bray
The Wonderful World of Disney
as Mr. Davis