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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.
Birth Name
John Carroll O'Connor
Born
Saturday, 02 August 1924
Died
Thursday, 21 June 2001
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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History of the Sitcom | Archie Bunker / Self - Actor | 2021 |
Q: Into the Storm | Self | 2021 |
Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project | Self | 2019 |
Sammy Davis, Jr.: I've Gotta Be Me | Archie Bunker - All in the Family | 2018 |
The Last Laugh | Self | 2017 |
Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You | Self | 2016 |
The Seventies | Self - Actor | 2015 |
Pioneers of Television | Archie Bunker - All in the Family | 2008 |
TV Land's Top Ten | Self | 2004 |
Los Angeles Plays Itself | Lt. Christy French in Marlowe | 2003 |
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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History of the Sitcom | Archie Bunker / Self - Actor | 2021 |
Q: Into the Storm | Self | 2021 |
Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project | Self | 2019 |
Sammy Davis, Jr.: I've Gotta Be Me | Archie Bunker - All in the Family | 2018 |
The Last Laugh | Self | 2017 |
Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You | Self | 2016 |
The Seventies | Self - Actor | 2015 |
Pioneers of Television | Archie Bunker - All in the Family | 2008 |
TV Land's Top Ten | Self | 2004 |
Los Angeles Plays Itself | Lt. Christy French in Marlowe | 2003 |
The 74th Annual Academy Awards | Self - Memorial Tribute | 2002 |
Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey | (archive footage) | 2000 |
Return to Me | Marty O'Reilly | 2000 |
36 Hours to Die | Jack 'Balls' O'Malley | 1999 |
Television: The First Fifty Years | Self - Interviewee | 1999 |
Gideon | Leo Barnes | 1998 |
Time & Again | (archive footage) | 1996 |
E! True Hollywood Story | Himself | 1996 |
Party of Five | Jacob Gordon / Jake Gordon | 1994 |
Mad About You | Gus Stemple | 1992 |
The Arsenio Hall Show | Himself - Guest | 1989 |
In the Heat of the Night | Chief William O. 'Bill' Gillespie / Bill Gillespie / Sheriff William O. 'Bill' Gillespie | 1988 |
The Father Clements Story | Cardinal Cody | 1987 |
Biography | Self | 1987 |
The Redd Foxx Show | Pat Cleary | 1986 |
The GLO Friends Save Christmas | Santa Claus (voice) / Santa Claus | 1985 |
Brass | Frank Nolan | 1985 |
Creativity with Bill Moyers | Self / actor | 1982 |
Chabad 'to Life' Telethon | Self | 1980 |
Archie Bunker's Place | Archie Bunker | 1979 |
People | Self | 1978 |
20/20 | Self | 1978 |
CBS: On the Air | Self - Co-Host | 1978 |
A Different Approach | Self | 1978 |
The Last Hurrah | Frank Skeffington | 1977 |
The Jacksons | Self | 1976 |
Saturday Night Live | Self | 1975 |
Sammy and Company | Self | 1975 |
The Jeffersons | Archie Bunker | 1975 |
Dinah! | Self - Guest | 1974 |
Law and Disorder | Willie | 1974 |
Bicentennial Minutes | Self - Narrator | 1974 |
Tony Orlando and Dawn | Self | 1974 |
The Vin Scully Show | Self | 1973 |
Don Rickles: Alive and Kicking | Self | 1972 |
Of Thee I Sing | John P. Wintergreen | 1972 |
The ABC Comedy Hour | Self | 1972 |
The Electric Company | Himself | 1971 |
The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour | The CBS Censor / Self | 1971 |
Doctors' Wives | Dr. Joe Gray / Joe Gray | 1971 |
All in the Family | Archie Bunker | 1971 |
Kelly's Heroes | General Colt / Major General Colt | 1970 |
The Governor & J.J. | Orrin Hacker | 1969 |
Marlowe | Lt. Christy French | 1969 |
Death of a Gunfighter | Lester Locke | 1969 |
Fear No Evil | Myles Donovan | 1969 |
For Love of Ivy | Frank Austin | 1968 |
Premiere | James Van Ducci | 1968 |
The Devil's Brigade | Maj. Gen. Maxwell Hunter | 1968 |
Waterhole #3 | Sheriff John Copperud / Sheriff John H. Copperud | 1967 |
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In | Guest Performer | 1967 |
Dundee and the Culhane | McJames | 1967 |
Point Blank | Brewster | 1967 |
Warning Shot | Paul Jerez | 1967 |
Not with My Wife, You Don't! | General Maynard C. Parker / General Parker | 1966 |
Hawaii | Charles Bromley | 1966 |
Mission: Impossible | Josef Varsh | 1966 |
The Time Tunnel | Gen. Southall / Col. Phil Southall | 1966 |
That Girl | Giuseppe Casanetti | 1966 |
What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? | Gen. Bolt / General Bolt | 1966 |
The Wild Wild West | Fabian Lavendor | 1965 |
The Dean Martin Show | Self - Guest | 1965 |
I Spy | Karolyi / Dr. Karolyi | 1965 |
In Harm's Way | Lt. Commander Burke | 1965 |
Profiles in Courage | Grover Cleveland | 1964 |
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. | Walter B. Brach | 1964 |
Slattery's People | Victor Newleaf / Lieutenant Wayne Altman | 1964 |
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea | Old John | 1964 |
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre | Lawson / Capt. Ted Eyck | 1963 |
The Great Adventure | Johann Sutter / O'Rourke | 1963 |
East Side/West Side | George Audette | 1963 |
The Fugitive | Sheriff Bray | 1963 |
The Outer Limits | Deimos | 1963 |
Cleopatra | Casca | 1963 |
The Eleventh Hour | Dr. Ben Conway | 1962 |
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | Himself - Guest / Herself - Guest | 1962 |
Stoney Burke | Harry Clark | 1962 |
Belle Sommers | Mr. Griffith | 1962 |
Lad: A Dog | Hamilcar Q. Glure | 1962 |
Lonely Are the Brave | Hinton | 1962 |
The Mike Douglas Show | Himself - Actor | 1961 |
Alcoa Premiere | Charles Campion | 1961 |
Ben Casey | Father Joseph McGavin / Dr. Wendel Clarke | 1961 |
Dr. Kildare | David Burnside / Roy Drummond | 1961 |
The Dick Powell Theatre | Leonard Barsevick / Dr. Lyman Savage | 1961 |
The DuPont Show of the Week | N.S. Kellogg | 1961 |
The Defenders | Joshua Ryder / Dr. Hugh Morgan | 1961 |
Kraft Mystery Theater | Charles Campion | 1961 |
By Love Possessed | Bernie Breck | 1961 |
Parrish | Fireman / Firechief | 1961 |
A Fever in the Blood | Matt Keenan / Matt Kenan | 1961 |
The Americans | Capt. Garbor | 1961 |
The Aquanauts | The Lieutenant | 1960 |
Adventures in Paradise | Henry Gresham | 1959 |
Bonanza | Tom Slayden | 1959 |
The Untouchables | Arnie Kurtz / Barney Lubin | 1959 |
Naked City | Owen Oliver / Tony Corran | 1958 |
The Defiant Ones | Truck Driver | 1958 |
Shirley Temple's Storybook | Appleyard | 1958 |
Gunsmoke | Hootie Kyle / Major Vanscoy | 1955 |
The Magical World of Disney | Mr. Davis | 1954 |
The United States Steel Hour | Tom O'Byrne | 1953 |
American Bandstand | Himself | 1952 |
Death Valley Days | Senator Dave Broderick | 1952 |
Armstrong Circle Theatre | Rudolf Höß / Stanley Morgan / Doc Turner | 1950 |
Director Filmography
Title | Year |
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In the Heat of the Night | 1988 |
The Redd Foxx Show | 1986 |
Archie Bunker's Place | 1979 |
Producer Filmography
Title | Year |
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In the Heat of the Night | 1988 |
Brass | 1985 |
The Last Hurrah | 1977 |
Year | Type | Category | Won |
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1994 | Golden Globe | Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Drama | Nominated |
1992 | Golden Globe | Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Drama | Nominated |
1991 | Golden Globe | Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Drama | Nominated |
1990 | Golden Globe | Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Drama | Nominated |
1989 | Golden Globe | Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Drama | Nominated |
1989 | Emmy | Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series | Won |
1979 | Emmy | Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series | Won |
1978 | Golden Globe | Best Actor in a Television Series - Comedy or Musical | Nominated |
1978 | Emmy | Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series | Won |
1977 | Emmy | Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series | Won |
1976 | Golden Globe | Best Actor in a Television Series - Comedy or Musical | Nominated |
1975 | Golden Globe | Best TV Actor - Comedy or Musical | Nominated |
1975 | Emmy | Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series | Nominated |
1974 | Golden Globe | Best TV Actor - Comedy or Musical | Nominated |
1974 | Emmy | Best Lead Actor in a Comedy Series | Nominated |
1973 | Golden Globe | Best TV Actor - Comedy or Musical | Nominated |
1973 | Emmy | Outstanding Continued Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Comedy Series | Nominated |
1972 | Golden Globe | Best TV Actor - Comedy or Musical | Won |
1972 | Emmy | Outstanding Continued Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Comedy Series | Won |
1971 | Emmy | Outstanding Continued Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Comedy Series | Nominated |