Carroll O'Connor
Birthday: 1924-08-02
Place of Birth: Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
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.
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Marlowe
Mysterious Orfamay Quest hires Los Angeles private investigator Philip Marlowe to find her missing b...
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Return to Me
It took a lot of cajoling to get Bob, a recently widowed architect, to go on a blind date at a quirk...
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Kelly's Heroes
A misfit group of World War II American soldiers goes AWOL to rob a bank behind German lines....
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Cleopatra
Determined to hold on to the throne, Cleopatra seduces the Roman emperor Julius Caesar. When Caesar ...
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The Citadel
The good doctor is on trial before the British Medical Association Council, if he is found guilty, h...
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Point Blank
After being double-crossed and left for dead, a mysterious man named Walker single-mindedly tries to...
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What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?
A by-the-book Captain is ordered to capture a strategic village in Italy. The Italian soldiers are w...
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Hawaii
Abner Hale, a rigid and humorless New England missionary, marries the beautiful Jerusha Bromley and ...
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Lonely are the Brave
A fiercely independent cowboy arranges to have himself locked up in jail in order to then escape wit...
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In Harm's Way
A Naval officer, reprimanded after Pearl Harbor, is later promoted to Rear Admiral and gets a second...
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Don Rickles: Alive And Kicking
Telecast December 1972, DON RICKLES: ALIVE AND KICKING was a huge ratings extravaganza for the netwo...
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For Love of Ivy
A white family has had the same Black maid for many years. When she tells them she wants to go back ...
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Los Angeles Plays Itself
From its distinctive neighborhoods to its architectural homes, Los Angeles has been the backdrop to ...
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Waterhole #3
After a professional gambler kills a Confederate soldier, he finds a map pinpointing the location in...
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Death of a Gunfighter
In the turn-of-the century Texas town of Cottownwood Springs, marshal Frank Patch is an old-style la...
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Not With My Wife, You Don't!
During the Korean War, Italian nurse Virna Lisi falls in love with two American fliers, Tony Curtis ...
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The Television Revolution Begins: "All in the Family" Is On the Air
DVD featurette documenting the success of "All in the Family"....
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Warning Shot
Hounded by the press for shooting a doctor, an ousted Los Angeles policeman works his own case....
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By Love Possessed
An unhappily married woman engages in an affair with her husband's law partner....
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Law and Disorder
In crime ridden New York of the seventies two cops has had enough. They decide to take justice into ...
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Doctors' Wives
The wives of several high-powered doctors feel neglected due to their husbands' focus on their caree...
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The GLO Friends Save Christmas
Blanche, the Wicked Witch of the North Pole, is jealous of Santa Claus. She imprisons him and his re...
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The Last Laugh
Feature documentary about humor and the Holocaust, examining whether it is ever acceptable to use hu...
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A Different Approach
An all-star educational film about the positive side of hiring people with disabilities. A board sit...
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Gideon
Gideon Dobbs is young, simple-minded man who has never stopped dreaming. He checks into a retirement...
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The Father Clements Story
In this provocative made-for-television drama, an African American Chicago priest takes on the Catho...
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Fear No Evil
A psychiatrist specializing in the occult becomes involved in the case of a man who is possessed by ...
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36 Hours to Die
Treat Williams stars in this drama as the owner of a brewing company who refuses to knuckle under wh...
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Parrish
Parrish McLean lives with his mother Ellen on Sala Post's tobacco plantation in the Connecticut Rive...
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In the Heat of the Night: A Matter of Justice
When a serial killer of women is on the loose in Sparta, all the clues lead Sheriff Gillespie and Fo...
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In the Heat of the Night: Who Was Geli Bendl?
All eyes are on Sparta after an internationally renowned actress arrives unexpectedly in the rural M...
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In the Heat of the Night: Give Me Your Life
The Sparta police investigate allegations of child abuse in a religious cult run by a charismatic le...
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In the Heat of the Night: Grow Old Along with Me
When a former cop marries a wealthy widow, his ex-girlfriend sees an opportunity for blackmail. But ...
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A Fever in the Blood
A judge, a district attorney and a U.S. senator, each hoping to be elected the next governor, attemp...
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The Last Hurrah
The longtime head of a powerful political machine is determined to win a fourth election and stay in...
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Lad: A Dog
Remember when your favorite face in the world had a wet nose? Eight-year-old Angela Clure is just di...
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Parrish
Parrish McLean lives with his mother Ellen on Sala Post's tobacco plantation in the Connecticut Rive...
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The Devil's Brigade
At the onset of World War II, American Lt. Col. Robert Frederick is put in charge of a unit called ...
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Belle Sommers
A woman recording artist with a past tries to shake off a gangster syndicate....
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Convicted
Fact-based story about a Tennessee letter carrier who was falsely convicted of a rape. However, his ...
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Ride a Northbound Horse
Fifteen-year-old Cav Rand purchases a racehorse and trains him into a winner, but a con artist is pl...
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Brass
The Chief of Detectives of the New York Police Department, is a tough cop who has worked his way up ...
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In the Heat of the Night: By Duty Bound
Gillepsie's term as County Sheriff is coming to an end, and his enemies have found a local businessm...
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Of Thee I Sing
CBS' updated version of the classic Gershwin musical, cast largely with stars who were all appearing...
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