John Carroll O'Connor was an American actor, producer, and director whose television career spanned four decades. A lifelong member of the Actors Studio, in 1971, O'Connor found widespread fame as Archie Bunker, the main character in the CBS television sitcoms All in the Family (1971–79) and its spinoff, Archie Bunker's Place (1979–83). O'Connor later starred in the NBC/CBS television crime drama In the Heat of the Night (1988–95), where he played the role of Sparta, Mississippi, police chief William (Bill) Gillespie. At the end of his career in the late 1990s, he played the father of Jamie Buchman on Mad About You.

Carroll O'Connor
Active - 1961 - 2017 |
Birth - Aug 2, 1924 |
Death - Jun 21, 2001 |
Genres - Drama, Comedy, Crime, Thriller, Romance
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Subgenres - Romantic Comedy, Epic Film, Neo-Noir, Western Film, Biographical Film
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