Overview
Carroll O'Connor
Known For
The Television Revolution Begins: "All in the Family" Is On the Air
DVD featurette documenting the success of "All in the Family".
In the Heat of the Night: Grow Old Along with Me
When a former cop marries a wealthy widow, his ex-girlfriend...
In the Heat of the Night: Who Was Geli Bendl?
All eyes are on Sparta after an internationally renowned actress...
In the Heat of the Night: Give Me Your Life
The Sparta police investigate allegations of child abuse in a...
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. John Carroll O'Connor (August 2, 1924 – June 21, 2001) best 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Carroll O'Connor, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.