Carroll O'Connor
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.
Acting
Movie
Cleopatra
as Casca
1963
Movie
Kelly's Heroes
as Major General Colt
1970
TV
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Cameo (uncredited)
1975
TV
Bonanza
as Tom Slayden
1959
Movie
Return to Me
as Marty O'Reilly
2000
Movie
Point Blank
as Brewster
1967
TV
Mission: Impossible
as Josef Varsh
1966
TV
Mad About You
as Gus Stemple
1992
TV
The Time Tunnel
as Gen. Southall / Col. Phil Southall
1966
TV
All in the Family
as Archie Bunker
1971
Movie
Lonely are the Brave
as Hinton
1962
TV
The Outer Limits
as Deimos
1963
Movie
In Harm's Way
as Lt. Commander Burke
1965
TV
The Untouchables
as Barney Lubin
1959
TV
The Untouchables
as Arnie Kurtz
1959
TV
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
as Old John
1964
TV
Party of Five
as Jake Gordon
1994
TV
Gunsmoke
as Hootie Kyle
1955
TV
Gunsmoke
as Major Vanscoy
1955
Movie
Marlowe
as Lt. Christy French
1969
TV
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
1962
Movie
The Devil's Brigade
as Maj. Gen. Maxwell Hunter
1968
TV
The Wild Wild West
as Fabian Lavendor
1965
TV
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
Crew
TV
All in the Family
Theme Song Performance
1971
TV
In the Heat of the Night
Director
1988
TV
Archie Bunker's Place
Director
1979
TV
Bronk
Story
1975
Movie
In the Heat of the Night: Who Was Geli Bendl?
Writer
1994
Movie
Brass
Executive Producer
1985
Movie
In the Heat of the Night: Give Me Your Life
Story
1994
Movie
The Last Hurrah
Writer
1977